To: jazusamo
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
2 posted on
08/23/2013 4:18:44 PM PDT by
2ndDivisionVet
(I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The MEANS justifies their end. Defund and repeal.
3 posted on
08/23/2013 4:20:37 PM PDT by
spawn44
( MOO)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Bump! Sadly, few are really aware of this situation.
4 posted on
08/23/2013 4:23:13 PM PDT by
jazusamo
("I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white." T. Sowell)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here,here. I won’t be one of those lemmings. One shot one kill is how I hunt.
15 posted on
08/23/2013 5:01:32 PM PDT by
faucetman
( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Solzhenitsyn is despised by the domestic communists, this degenerate bunch of evil lying sons of whores.
Vacation Guy is the COMINTERN's Reagan.
If HILLARY! is to carry the communist banner, hard times are coming strong.
33 posted on
08/23/2013 6:38:34 PM PDT by
Rome2000
(THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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