[2ndDivisionVet]

“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 Solzhenitsyn

[Mygirlsmom]

Should be required reading......

[ChildOfThe60s]

Very sobering quote. More so because succeeding generations seem to have learned little from this. Or in the case of Americans, nothing.

Thanks for posting it again.

[The Antiyuppie]

I love your quote.

But anyway...

“For instance, you can reduce brightness and contrast,” his booklet suggests.”

Liberal technocrats are the same worldwide - they should not be allowed to become involved with anything more “technical” than a paper clip. This statement is almost fantastically stupid.

[skinkinthegrass]

thank you, posting that..it's very relevant in today's world.