The horror of such strikes, during which men and women refused to take any food for seven or eight days in succession, and then lay motionless, their minds wandering, seemed not to appeal to the gendarmes.
Kropotkin emphasizes the extreme lengths to which individuals went to protest their conditions, highlighting the severity of their struggles.
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