"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
Or, as CuomoisaMassMurderer put it:
We MUST know what is coming. The very worst victory, the gravest of all possible battles, is pretending all continues as normal until we must each fight to the death, outnumbered at our homes.
They will run out of people willing to try before we run out of people, as long as each of us is determined to take as many as possible with us. Even if some of us don't succeed, they will at the very least suffer casualties at every attempt. And they don't have strong enough motivation to continue trying. Not compared to our motivation.
The better question is, what do we do to prevent that from occurring? All I see here is "if the boog happens we'll know." And "ooh you're a glowie." That is NOT planning! And as such, it is planning to fail. Or at best, planning to come to this very worst victory.
"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
Or, as CuomoisaMassMurderer put it: