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<blockquote data-quote="Riflehunter1776" data-source="post: 1575706" data-attributes="member: 103369"><p>the past is the key to the future. Socialism invariably becomes totalitarian terror. It is it's natural progression. The only "peaceful socialists" are the ones who are not yet strong enough to persecute their political enemies. </p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10420.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn" target="_blank"><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1204127475p4/10420.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">"And how we burned in the (concentration)camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every (NKVD)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 (secret police) 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."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riflehunter1776, post: 1575706, member: 103369"] the past is the key to the future. Socialism invariably becomes totalitarian terror. It is it's natural progression. The only "peaceful socialists" are the ones who are not yet strong enough to persecute their political enemies. [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10420.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn'][IMG]https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1204127475p4/10420.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [SIZE=4]“And how we burned in the (concentration)camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every (NKVD)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 (secret police) 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.”[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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