“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
I dunno. Catholics are at least consistent on abortion and capital punishment. They are woke. Just look at the Pope.
I have been telling everyone I can for years that every American needs to read Solzhenitsyn.
Thank you for posting this.
I am not Catholic, but it appears to me that the Church is lead by one who does NOT follow Christ.
As this writing explains, there is no antidote for the taste of power in him, which leads to an inevitable conclusion.
“This work went on for many nights at Adak.
“And that is how the moral-political unity of our Party was achieved.”