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To: savagesusie

Blast from the past:

“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, polkers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur — what if it had been driven off or its tires spiked. 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!

- Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn


88 posted on 08/13/2011 7:30:52 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Obama takes office, and 2-1/2 years later we are saying downgrade and America together!)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Don’t you wonder why children in the public schools aren’t forced to memorize this man’s book, rather than putting condoms on cucumbers and walking around with tape on their mouths?

They are intentionally trying to create more useful idiots, cowards, kill individuality, feminize boys, destroy morality—create “group think”. All so they can herd the masses again and dictate what they can and can not do and think.


97 posted on 08/13/2011 9:44:33 AM PDT by savagesusie
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