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The Gulag Archipelago "We deserved everything that happened"
Posted on 1/14/22 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 1/14/22 at 12:02 pm
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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
Posted on 1/14/22 at 12:11 pm to burger bearcat
I've read excerpts from Gulag, but I really need to sit down and read the whole thing.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 12:15 pm to Tantal
I'm reading the abridged version now.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 12:52 pm to Tantal
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I've read excerpts from Gulag, but I really need to sit down and read the whole thing.
It's intense but worth it.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 1:20 pm to burger bearcat
few will understand this and read it in the context it is meant for.
thanks for posting.
thanks for posting.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 1:24 pm to burger bearcat
Australians are living this today. They would never have given up their guns if they knew the goons would be billy-clubbing them for not wearing a mask.
NEVER GIVE UP THE GUNS. EVER.
NEVER GIVE UP THE GUNS. EVER.
This post was edited on 1/14/22 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 1/14/22 at 1:26 pm to burger bearcat
I read the book last year and it was fantastic and horrifying at the same time. We are going the same direction.
I wouldn’t doubt for a second any of my neighbors wouldn’t rat me out to the state.
I wouldn’t doubt for a second any of my neighbors wouldn’t rat me out to the state.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 1:37 pm to Tantal
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I've read excerpts from Gulag, but I really need to sit down and read the whole thing.
It should be required reading to graduate Junior High, and then required again in college.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 1:51 pm to GhostOfFreedom
Atlas Shrugged would be appropriate now.
Posted on 1/14/22 at 2:15 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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This post was edited on 1/14/22 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 1/14/22 at 4:14 pm to McCaigBro69
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I read the book last year and it was fantastic and horrifying at the same time. We are going the same direction.
This.... I read it in college .. long time ago...probably should read it again
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