Deep down

Until the end of the war, the young Lizchen, who worked at the post office, saved the fellow villagers from themselves - destroyed denunciations. Someone complained about tax evasion, someone-about undesirable statements to the authorities. Uncle Paul informed the police that in a neighboring house a widow hides a mentally retarded son, although according to the laws of the Reich, all idiots should be subject to destruction. Under the mill, a whole cemetery of envelopes was formed. Why did people do this? No one demanded such animal humility to the system, especially here, in the wilderness. Years passed. For the construction of the highway, it was necessary to demolish the mill. It was then that the secret cemetery opened ...
In the story "deep down", as in other stories and stories of the Era Ershova, who entered the book, the human soul is studied. The author is amazed at how monotonously and unpretentiously good in man and how whimsical and inventive evil