“5. Preliminary humiliation was another approach [such as subjecting prisoners to nakedness, mockery, anxiety states, humiliating commands, etc.] If one were systematically to question former prisoners, many more such examples would certainly emerge. They all had but a single purpose: to dishearten and humiliate.”*
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*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.. The Gulag Archipelago (p. 64). Harper Perennial. Kindle Edition.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ... (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) ... was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR), in particular the Gulag system. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn