It was told by a man who spent 17 years in Stalin camps on a political article.
When he was released in 1953, he was given a goodbye gift by the sludge. He says to them:
“Thank you guys, but why do I need a knife? You know, I don’t go with a knife.
They are him:
Everything is right. You live on the Column now, why do you have a knife? And tomorrow you go to Moscow, there can not walk without a knife.