[John Robie]

The Communists could not control that country’s population if they were armed with rifles.

[Stonewall Jackson]

Joe Stalin probably wouldn't have been able to hold onto the Soviet Union if its population had been armed as well.

During WW2 a number of Ukrainians sided with the Germans against the Soviet Union and were incorporated into the German military (mostly Waffen SS). After the war, many of these soldiers refused to submit to Soviet rule and started a strong resistance movement against the communists that lasted well into the 1950's before they were overwhelmed and finally suppressed.