This is why you never give up your military-style rifles. This is why you don’t voluntarily go to re-education camp.
"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."
"The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!" Some say Washington said this others dont. Wouldnt be surprised if the commies running every aspect of education want this little gem hiddin.
This site is the only place with discussions like this. This talk would he an instant ban on Discord. Not only because of sitewide policy but the mods are actual soft liberals who say it is "a bad look".
The history of the 20th Century has a lot of that.
This is why you never give up your military-style rifles. This is why you don’t voluntarily go to re-education camp.
"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 Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago
"The thing that separates the American Christian from every other person on earth is the fact that he would rather die on his feet, than live on his knees!" Some say Washington said this others dont. Wouldnt be surprised if the commies running every aspect of education want this little gem hiddin.
This site is the only place with discussions like this. This talk would he an instant ban on Discord. Not only because of sitewide policy but the mods are actual soft liberals who say it is "a bad look".
Reading through this book now. Incredible stuff. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Nothing new under the sun, yet here we are.
Bingo
strange coincidence: I read that very passage last week.