“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.”
We're not anywhere close to that yet, and we're armed. When the time comes, do you think there won't be patriots ready to shoot back? That's the difference between us and the Russians.
Yes it is. I'm glad you liked that quote. I found it incredible myself, and honestly, it explains so much of what happened then. They were too ruled by fear to oppose evil. That's why they could do nothing to stop it. I won't make that mistake.
You're right. I don't know exactly what it is, but they seem determined to give up all their strength to some powerful leader in the name of security. Poles and Americans are nothing like that. The Russians are like the Chinese in that way.
I'd think maybe it's because they experienced greater brutality than us, but Poles went through absolute hell many times and didn't turn out that way.
Have you ever been to Russia or know any Russians that live in the RF? These boots on the necks of the Russian people, how would that be impacting them in their daily lives? Are there lots of homeless on the streets, like in the US?
This is what he wrote:
We're not anywhere close to that yet, and we're armed. When the time comes, do you think there won't be patriots ready to shoot back? That's the difference between us and the Russians.
Is that the Gulag Archipelago?
I really have to read it.
Yes it is. I'm glad you liked that quote. I found it incredible myself, and honestly, it explains so much of what happened then. They were too ruled by fear to oppose evil. That's why they could do nothing to stop it. I won't make that mistake.
You're right. I don't know exactly what it is, but they seem determined to give up all their strength to some powerful leader in the name of security. Poles and Americans are nothing like that. The Russians are like the Chinese in that way.
I'd think maybe it's because they experienced greater brutality than us, but Poles went through absolute hell many times and didn't turn out that way.
Have you ever been to Russia or know any Russians that live in the RF? These boots on the necks of the Russian people, how would that be impacting them in their daily lives? Are there lots of homeless on the streets, like in the US?
In parts of the West we are literally there already.