[CondoleezzaProtege]

33. Repressions affected not just the top layer but every layer of society—in any village, at any factory, in any family there were either relatives or friends who were repressed.

I think what people -- most notably modern Russians (who have yet to properly reflect on and forge closure on this monumental and very recent time of their history) -- fail to comprehend, is that the Gulag system was not just a symptom of Stalinist society, but the foundation.

For the system to function, it required the ascent and participation of ALL people in every strata of society. Everyone contributed their part, however consciously or unconsciously. It was not just guards and prisoners. Mere survival required it.

Catastrophic rates of abortion were also heavily practiced in the Soviet Union a half century before ours...Russia and China have some obvious demographic consequences -- but even in our own American society, as activist Lila Rose points out:

We are all "wounded" by the practice even if we have not personally experienced one ourselves. We do not realize how so much of the chaos and breakdown of sexuality, relationships, and propensity for violence can trace their roots to the status abortion holds as a basis for modern culture to operate.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Reading on the subject is pretty dry. We have a million to 3 million people that should serve there.

[Aria]

We are all "wounded" by the practice even if we have not personally experienced one ourselves. We do not realize how so much of the chaos and breakdown of sexuality, relationships, and propensity for violence can trace their roots to the status abortion holds as a basis for modern culture to operate.

Totally agree with these important words.

[Jacquerie]

Its a pity the Russians didn't enforce the constitution they had.

In Praise of the Soviet Constitution.