Moscow. Solzhenitsyn recounts, locked in prison and without information on the course of the war, hearing 30 cannon shots, which usually signified the capture of a European capital. Only Prague and Berlin were missing: he just had to guess which. Then on May 9th, they brought him lunch and dinner together, which was usually only for May Day celebrations: he guessed that the war might be over. That evening, he heard 30 cannon shots for the second capital, and then another 40 shots: it was the end of the Great Patriotic War.
