To: garybob
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
57 posted on
08/13/2012 11:29:39 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: tet68
Gosh, glad i knew it by memory! just kidding,, great minds think alike! And i agree, it’s our birthright.
59 posted on
08/13/2012 11:42:58 PM PDT by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
To: tet68
I was looking for that exact passage several weeks ago but couldn’t remember who had said it. Powerful! Every schoolboy should be required to read it to graduate to middle school.
67 posted on
08/14/2012 12:10:16 AM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: tet68; DesertRhino
Thanks very much, you guys!
Makes this thread worth saving.
68 posted on
08/14/2012 12:16:31 AM PDT by
onyx
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To: tet68
159 posted on
08/14/2012 6:04:02 AM PDT by
antisocial
(Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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