The statement below applied to the communist take over of Russia.
The same thoughts apply to Red China and to America when they try the same murderous path here.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love FREEDOM enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ,
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
If you like Solzhenitsyn, and want to get a concise “PG rated” example of how the traits of selfishness, ambition, corruption were encouraged by the lack of justice and law in Statist regime you may like one his short reads...
Wiki quote
“For the Good of the Cause” is a novella by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in the Russian magazine Novy Mir in 1963. The story is unusual in Solzhenitsyn’s canon in that it is set contemporary time, the early 1960s. The action takes place in a provincial town like Ryazan where the author lived after his release from the gulag and his return from exile in the 1950s.
“In the town, the students of the local college help to build new college premises by doing most of the work themselves. On completion, the Soviet authorities order that the building should be handed over to a research institute and the students are told that this is “for the good of the cause”.
The story is an overt criticism of the lack of democracy that prevailed at the time and the lack of integrity of political leaders.”
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I recall the spirit of provincial young people he describes, so full of virtue and good intentions, voluntarily selling private handcrafted items and small heirloom items etc to raise money for the wheeling and dealing of used building materials, and the pride they took in their communal labours -after their dayjobs- (ex-hippies would get flashbacks reading these scenes) and how a local communist official (ignorant of the project until accidentally hearing of it), saw the building as a ready-made opportunity to bignote himself over a rival in a city office and appropriate the new building, calling it a State Asset for his own uses)... the district’s spirit and loyalty was crushed. The young realise the regime is a delusion, a concentration camp from one border to the other. Why should anyone make any effort at all? And the people are simply livestock in the hands of small minded provincial (well-protected) dictators.. who organise family dynasties and seek out and cement a network of ruthless sycophants.
“Why should anyone make any effort at all?” is a zinger aimed at the Bernie Sanders and AOC far left idiots. “Hey, everything is free, just go to work all day and pay taxes, or not...”
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A society where people are free, law abiding, ambitious and hard working, and brought up to honour themselves and their family has been proven to build strong Nations.
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