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.
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But how do you know that you have nothing left to lose?
For example: I am currently in a place where I "Trust the Plan".
I have committed the crime of trying to expose the Cabal to people that I know, and people on the internet. If they come for me should I go quietly, trusting that the plan will take care of things? Should I instead kill the police when they come in my home with a warrant for my arrest?
You can't go back from there. If you are wrong, you are not acting in self defense, but are a murderer in the eyes of the law, and likely society as well.
If the world looks like its over, then the decision is not hard. But what if its today. Then its not so easy. The only difference between those two situations is my belief in the happenings of the outside world. The police coming to take me away in this hypothetical is identical.
If I am in a position where I believe I have nothing left to lose, then many will die before I do. But any other situation, I may very well end up in the Gulag.
The statement of the OP is obvious in hindsight, but misses the reality of the present moment those people found themselves in.
Sauce?
Is that statement from Alexander Solzhenitsyn or another unfortunate Soviet citizen? Very interesting.
Yeah it’s Solzy. He described the antics of the commies so well. Many parallels to today
It looked like his writing style.He has written some excellent books.
It's a shame more people don't read his books,they are very instructive about how the situation can go very bad,very quickly.
Thanks for that post,fren.
I will die free before I live in tyrany..........
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