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A quote about armed resistance to government from someone who lived it
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:23 pm
"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests 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 to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of The Gulag Archipelago, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps.
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner and author of The Gulag Archipelago, who spent 11 years in Soviet concentration camps.
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Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:25 pm to weagle99
It's chilling to think about being in a position where you could have acted but didn't have the courage, BUT this is hindsight being 20/20.
They had no idea what was in the cards for them.
They had no idea what was in the cards for them.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:34 pm to KosmoCramer
Standing up to one individual takes courage enough, standing up to your government takes an immeasurable amount.
You can be sure that you will suffer consequences, because the government will send more men if they don't get you the first time, and won't stop until enough people, through their courageous suffering, create enough casualties on the government to make it stop.
A really terrifying time to live for those people.
You can be sure that you will suffer consequences, because the government will send more men if they don't get you the first time, and won't stop until enough people, through their courageous suffering, create enough casualties on the government to make it stop.
A really terrifying time to live for those people.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:41 pm to KosmoCramer
He was convicted for the "crime" of anti-Soviet thought" for disparaging Stalin in a letter to a friend during WWII.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:49 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
Good thing we've got this guy.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:52 pm to Mahootney
Quite posting my pic without my permission. I feel bullied when you do that.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 5:47 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Wow, that's powerful.
Im really glad someone found this from a real person. I wasn't getting anywhere quoting "a people should not be afraid of their government, a government should be afraid of its people" V for Vendetta. Person who lived it >>> awesome movie/graphic novel.
Im really glad someone found this from a real person. I wasn't getting anywhere quoting "a people should not be afraid of their government, a government should be afraid of its people" V for Vendetta. Person who lived it >>> awesome movie/graphic novel.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:58 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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You can be sure that you will suffer consequences, because the government will send more men after your wife and children if they don't get you the first time
Fixed.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:12 pm to weagle99
The Government tyrants always believe they are on the side of the 'people'; that they are the *good* guys. Anybody that resist government authority...or assists or even tacitly sympathizes with them that do...is complicit and deserving of suppression.
People will only resist if they are SURE that their neighbor will too. Because if most ALL resist...then the mob-rulers become the hunted, and not the hunter.
Forget cell phones and I-net. Word will travel by mouth and spread like a virus if a Gulag-type scenario ever develops over here. The real problem will be that if people do rise up against...they end up destroying the very entity that secures basic life goods and services for them. At least in the shortrun.
The powers that be knows this. I have no idea how this stacks up. They could try to heal this place by NOT LYING. For starters. Doubt that will happen.
People will only resist if they are SURE that their neighbor will too. Because if most ALL resist...then the mob-rulers become the hunted, and not the hunter.
Forget cell phones and I-net. Word will travel by mouth and spread like a virus if a Gulag-type scenario ever develops over here. The real problem will be that if people do rise up against...they end up destroying the very entity that secures basic life goods and services for them. At least in the shortrun.
The powers that be knows this. I have no idea how this stacks up. They could try to heal this place by NOT LYING. For starters. Doubt that will happen.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:25 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:Don't be such a pussy.
Quite posting my pic without my permission. I feel bullied when you do that.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:50 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:
Quite posting my pic without my permission. I feel bullied when you do that.
The OT says you're a wuss and wants to know if you even lift.
Posted on 4/17/14 at 7:04 am to TigersforEver
A.S. is one of my favorite authors that I have read in the last forty odd years. "The Gulag Archipelago" should be required reading in some part of high schools curriculum across the nation regardless of how much bitching it would produce because it was "too hard" for the students. I read all three paperback volumes(1000 pages each) when I should have been doing English home work, it was/is a very compelling piece of literature. social science (with respect to the cultural differences of Russia and the world), history of the Soviet Union that he experienced in Siberia as all of the prisoners endured it. The camps were labor camps to build the infrastructure of the country under Stalin and others that followed him for thirty plus years.
Posted on 4/17/14 at 8:36 am to CITWTT
Paraphrasing...
A.S. is on the paddy wagon taking him to the pokey. The guard asks him what was his crime and sentence.
A.S. said, "I got 15 years for doing absolutely nothing."
The guard said, "You're a liar. Everybody knows the sentence for doing absolutely nothing is only 10 years."
A.S. is on the paddy wagon taking him to the pokey. The guard asks him what was his crime and sentence.
A.S. said, "I got 15 years for doing absolutely nothing."
The guard said, "You're a liar. Everybody knows the sentence for doing absolutely nothing is only 10 years."
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