"...it was incredible to him [a Red Army Sergeant] that any Soviet youth could have been so thoroughly poisoned by religion.
"Zalivako was not finished. 'It is evident that you resist teaching, Moiseyev, and the advice of your superiors. That is a concern to me. You are in need of a lesson. Since you are fond of praying on your knees, I shall give you an opportunity for constructive socialist labor in that position. You are to wash the barrack’s drill hall and all the corridors on your knees.... You will work all night. Perhaps an exercise of this nature, and before your comrades, might help to persuade you to be teachable. You will have opportunity to consider if you wish to cling to your anti-Soviet views. Dismissed.'...
"...the news of a believer in the unit had passed through the whole company.... Fast upon the first story came the second, that the Polit-Ruk had set Moiseyev to scrubbing the enormous barrack hall with a small hand brush and a bucket.
"Incredibly, he was in good humor, singing and smiling as he worked in spite of continuous interruptions by officers who called him into their offices to harass him. By lunch, soldiers were drifting into the hall... watching him work, listening to the quiet hymns he sang with such evident joy. He was a mystery." [17]