To: skeeter; livius
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
7 posted on
01/08/2013 7:16:03 PM PST by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I expect I’ll “make the cut” from 25 to 10 million incorrigibles.
We came here from europe and elsewhere for freedom and opportunity; those who now want to stay that course are enemies of the state.
Go figure...
We didn’t change, something else did.
8 posted on
01/08/2013 7:23:00 PM PST by
One Name
(Ultimately, the TRUTH is a razor's edge and no man can sit astride it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am reading that Book RIGHT Now. I an halfway through it.
9 posted on
01/08/2013 7:57:50 PM PST by
left that other site
(Worry is the Darkroom that Develops Negatives.)
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