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The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Vol. 33 No. 2 Apr.-Jun. 2008 50 Faithful Ruslan ÿ π— ¢§ÿ ¡π— °‚∑…°— ∫°“√µà Õ Ÿâ ‡æ◊Ë Õ‡ √’ ¿“æ Abstract Faithful Ruslan : The guard dog and the fight for freedom Sanchai Suwangbutra Associate Fellow of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, The Royal Institute, Thailand Faithful Ruslan is the story of a guard dog at a Siberian prison camp. When the camps were being emptied of their countless thousands of prisoners. Ruslan is bewildered and afraid. He is unfit for the free life because the camp code in all that Ruslan has ever known. He finds freedom degrading. In the end, Ruslan finds that he cannot imagine a world without prisoners and masters, so, he re-created them. The gulag is dead, but it lives in the mind of a dog who fears freedom. Georgi Vladimov has created in Ruslan a portrait of the Russian çsoulé-loyal, outrageously, narrow-minded, generous, self-lacerating, filled with animal wilderness Ruslan becomes the the Russian çsoulé veering toward extinction. Faithful Ruslan is Vladimovûs masterpieces, campleted in 1974 and has never been printed in the USSR till 1990. Key words : guard dog, gulag, Russian soul.