The motivations and actions of the bluecaps are sometimes so petty that one can only be astounded. Security officer Senchenko took a map case and dispatch case from an officer he'd arrested and started to use them in his presence, and, by manipulating the documentation, he took a pair of foreign gloves from another prisoner. (When the armies were advancing, the bluecaps were especially irritated because they got only second pick of the booty.) The counterintelligence officer who arrested me had a yen for my cigarette case -- and it wasn't even a cigarette case but a small German Army box... And because of that piece of s*** he carried out a whole maneuver: As his first step, he omitted it from the list of belongings that were confiscated from me... He thereupon ordered me to be searched again, knowing all the time that it was all I had in my pockets. "Aha! What's that? Take it away!" And to prevent my protests: "Put him in the punishment cell!"(p. 152-153)