To: defconw
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
211 posted on
06/16/2020 4:06:22 PM PDT by
HippyLoggerBiker
(Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
To: HippyLoggerBiker
Excellent reminder! We do it for them and I plan on taking as many as I can with me. Pantifa and the UN can bite me.
213 posted on
06/16/2020 4:10:53 PM PDT by
defconw
(WWG1WGA)
To: HippyLoggerBiker
219 posted on
06/16/2020 4:20:34 PM PDT by
lyby
("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
To: HippyLoggerBiker
Here’s another quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, I have on my profile page:
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
220 posted on
06/16/2020 4:21:16 PM PDT by
little jeremiah
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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