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When the blue helmets kick down the front door, It’s already too late. The Idea is to intercept the convoy ON THE WAY to someone else’s house. You want to make their job so undesirable, it will be nearly impossible to get people to do it.

“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 I. Solzhenitsyn