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To: upchuck

“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 ,

The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

caps on FREEDOM mine


7 posted on 09/08/2019 2:58:18 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: PGalt

Exactly what I thought wen I saw this post. We should all keep this alive.


15 posted on 09/08/2019 3:01:39 PM PDT by o-n-money
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To: PGalt

:) You beat to it.. This is the very quote I thought of as well...


17 posted on 09/08/2019 3:03:27 PM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: PGalt
"“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? "

Do like the demoncrats have been doing already...

Make and distribute lists of names and addresses of those (and their families) who oppose us and our views...

Certainly it would not be impossible to generate lists for those (and their families) who either plan and demand confiscation or who would be coming to confiscate...

Maybe all the emails and telephone calls would dissuade them.../Snicker

46 posted on 09/08/2019 3:43:25 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: PGalt

Thanks for that quote.

That is very powerful.


71 posted on 09/08/2019 5:29:39 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: PGalt; o-n-money; unread; SuperLuminal
Nine minutes of disarmed Polish soldiers being murdered by NKVD Communists in 1940 [Katyn]:

picture

click on the picture to find out why the Lefties are getting them barrel first...

76 posted on 09/08/2019 6:07:12 PM PDT by kiryandil (The Media & the DNC tells you who you're gonna vote for. We CHOSE Trump.)
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