Mkrtich Armen's "The Man with Six Diseases" depicts the moral collapse of the camp, where the medic uses the crucial fish oil (meant to cure the political prisoners' night blindness) to fry potatoes. Shamed by his cowardice, the Man with Six Diseases attempts to redeem himself by secretly stealing the fish oil, but his night-blind comrades mistake him for the medic and savagely beat their own friend. The story tragically reveals that morality and the hope for salvation are shattered by the brutal realities of the camp.