[Wolfie]

"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 goodbye to his family?"
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[DTogo]

Timely quote.

[squarebarb]

I’m just reading that now.

Solzhenitzen was furious that the russian people were so passive.

But then again he comments that they had come through so much, had been passive under the Tsarist regime and its enforcers.

We are a free people, on the other hand, and have been for generations.