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But freedom is the whole life of everyone.

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I used to think freedom was freedom of speech, freedom of the press,
freedom of conscience.
But freedom is the whole life of everyone.

Here is what it amounts to: you have to have the right to sow what
you wish to, to make shoes or coats,
to bake into bread the flour ground from the grain you have sown,
and to sell it or not sell it as you wish;
for the lathe operator, the steelworker, and the artist it’s a matter of
being able to live as you wish and work as you wish
and not as they order you to.

And in our country there is no freedom –
not for those who write books nor for those who sow grain
nor for those who make shoes.”
(Grossman) ...
He noted that “In people’s day-to-day struggle to live,
in the extreme efforts workers put forth to earn an extra ruble
through moonlighting, in the collective farmers’ battle for bread and potatoes
as the one and only fruit of their labor,
he [Ivan Grigoryevich] could sense more than the desire to live better,
to fill one’s children’s stomachs and to clothe them.

In the battle for the right to make shoes, to knit sweaters,
in the struggle to plant what one wished, was manifested
the natural, indestructible striving toward freedom inherent in human nature.
He had seen this very same struggle in the people in camp.
Freedom, it seemed, was immortal on both sides of the barbed wire.