[SamuraiScot]

there will be no shortage of those willing to do the rounding up, and any police killed rounding up "loners" with "arsenals" in their "compounds" will be heroes

In that quotation, Solzhenitsyn seems to suggest the opposite. That is, he says the problem was the lack of citizens resisting--not the uselessness of resistance. The paragraph blames the attitude of futility itself for the descent into tyranny.

[from occupied ga]

In that quotation, Solzhenitsyn seems to suggest the opposite. ..The paragraph blames the attitude of futility itself for the descent into tyranny

He does, and I agree with that too. There isn't one cause or one action to resist.