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To: svcw
I'm thinking you're absolutely right. She's the product of our educational system. She has enjoyed the blessings of Liberty, but never appreciated its high cost. I was a boy watching the newsreel footage of this man's leap to freedom when it was first released. It's vivid imagery still haunts me to this very day. He was lucky. Many died attempting to escape the tyranny of the hammer and sickle flag...
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"You extol the virtues of communism because you have never been forced to live under it." - Alexandr Solshenitzen
29 posted on 05/02/2013 2:03:35 PM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: PowderMonkey
“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

44 posted on 05/02/2013 2:25:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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