We should be pouring into the streets by the millions to protest this commie crap. But we won't. We're the frogs in the pot who won't act until it is too late. Probably too late anyway.
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
That quote is timeless and so rarely gets acted out, probably due to a lack of leadership. For example, the inmates at Sobibor concentration camp did overrun the guards and escape but not without cost. They knew they had nothing left to lose and the leadership came from a Russian POW who was a military man. The camp was closed down after the escape.
We should be pouring into the streets by the millions to protest this commie crap. But we won't. We're the frogs in the pot who won't act until it is too late. Probably too late anyway.
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It won't stop with Trump. Anyone is a target.
ReplyDeleteAnd 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
That quote is timeless and so rarely gets acted out, probably due to a lack of leadership. For example, the inmates at Sobibor concentration camp did overrun the guards and escape but not without cost. They knew they had nothing left to lose and the leadership came from a Russian POW who was a military man. The camp was closed down after the escape.
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