For adults, fathers and grandfathers, these boisterous games of the kids in the crowded conditions of camp could cause more anguish and be more hurtful than their robbing and their rapacious greed. It proved to be one of the most sensitive forms of humiliation for an elderly person to be made equal with a young whippersnapper–if only it were equal! But not to be turned over to the tyranny of the whippersnappers.
The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 2, p 460