The Czars liked to incarcerate important prisoners in it. The fort was intended to protect Novgorod and later Muscovy from the Swedes, but became redundant after the Swedes were ejected and St. Petersburg founded.
The Jews of the Warsaw ghetto did realize they had nothing to lose and managed their surprisingly effective uprising. That should be a lesson to people who think gun violence can be eliminated with enough restrictive laws. If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto could amass enough weapons to fight back while locked up and surrounded by armed Nazis then how could anyone possibly expect to prevent people in a huge open country like this from acquiring whatever firearms we want badly enough?
Of course like the Russians Solzhenitsyn wrote of in Lenningrad, the Jews at the time they were removed from their homes across Europe by the Nazis had little idea what was ahead of them, otherwise they would have violently resisted being taken from their homes. Even once crowded into ghettos, the Warsaw Jews IIRC were the only major group to figure out before it was too late that they had nothing to lose by resisting.
With the perfect clarity of hindsight, we scratch out heads at why these people; Russians and Jews couldn't see what lay ahead of them but such are the deceptive powers of a state in complete control of communications.
If the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto could amass enough weapons to fight back while locked up and surrounded by armed Nazis then how could anyone possibly expect to prevent people in a huge open country like this from acquiring whatever firearms we want badly enough?
True and imagine the German war resources that would have been tied down had every ghetto similarly revolted?
The Czars liked to incarcerate important prisoners in it. The fort was intended to protect Novgorod and later Muscovy from the Swedes, but became redundant after the Swedes were ejected and St. Petersburg founded.