To: rktman
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 Solzhenitsyn
2 posted on
07/21/2014 5:51:30 AM PDT by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: JimRed
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 Solzhenitsyn
I just like it broken up into dramatic pieces
3 posted on
07/21/2014 5:59:19 AM PDT by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: JimRed
Yup. Too many folks who think that BFF (Big F’n Fed) is the benevolent savior for all their woes, will sit idly by. They’re no threat to BFF. Makers and takers. Sadly, history isn’t much taught anymore. Some have a small clue others, have no clue. Or care about the “past” ‘cause it’s the “past”.
5 posted on
07/21/2014 6:01:28 AM PDT by
rktman
(Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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