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And Now We’re Talking About Internment Camps?


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2017 Oct 18, 5:25am   1,873 views  8 comments

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1   anonymous   2017 Oct 18, 5:36am  

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.
3   anonymous   2017 Oct 18, 7:26am  

Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
4   anonymous   2017 Oct 18, 7:40am  

Home, prove you are not a bot and say "cameltoe". Thanks
6   HEY YOU   2017 Oct 18, 8:40am  

home says
We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Electing The Retard & Republicans has been Nirvana.
7   RWSGFY   2017 Oct 18, 12:25pm  

home says
people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?


Notice how firearms are conspicuously absent from this list. Why? Because by the times Solzhenitsyn is writing about the population has been completely disarmed and all the residual weapons floating around from WWI and Civil War have been totally mopped up by security apparatus. Even having a spent cartridge casing in your pocket was a felony with real (and long) prison sentence attached to it.
8   anonymous   2017 Oct 18, 5:00pm  

Most people would prefer to ignore a hard fact rather than face it.

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