What would things have been like if ... 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!
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
One day, someone is going to clean snap the handle and officials like these will be dragged into the streets and brutalized. And they deserve it.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Been reading that book, the whole thing is sobering.