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Nikolai Kretszky
The commander of the NKVD unit that deports the Vilkases. He is the personification of evil in Lina’s mind. Komorov shoots Ona, demands that the deportees sign paperwork agreeing to their criminal charges and sentencing them to 25 years of hard labor, and tortures with sleep deprivation those who do not sign. When Lina’s talent for drawing is discovered, he demands that she draw a portrait of him. Though Lina longs to draw him as she sees him—with snakes crawling out of his skull—she draws a flattering portrait to save her own life.
Komorov (The Commander) Quotes in Between Shades of Gray
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Chapter 41
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My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength here.
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Komorov (The Commander) Quotes in Between Shades of Gray
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Chapter 41
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My art teacher had said that if you breathed deeply and imagined something, you could be there. You could see it, feel it. During our standoffs with the NKVD, I learned to do that. I clung to my rusted dreams during the times of silence. It was at gunpoint that I fell into every hope and allowed myself to wish from the deepest part of my heart. Komorov thought he was torturing us. But we were escaping into a stillness within ourselves. We found strength here.
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