What is the theme in Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov?

The cruelty of the Soviet Regime is another theme in the story. The Soviet regime sends millions to their death on ridiculous charges. In the story "Dry Rations," the reader finds out about a teenaged boy, Fedya, who is sent to the camps for killing his own sheep without authorization. In the story "In the Bathhouse," even the procedure of becoming clean and delousing is turned into a form of persecution against the political prisoners. In part, the camps at Kolyma resemble the German Nazi concentration camps in which people are worked to death, but in some ways they are different. In many cases in Kolyma, Russians are causing the suffering and killing their fellow Russians.