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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leonard D Neubache" data-source="post: 1337317" data-attributes="member: 11069">My mentioning of villages being gobbled up by soviet troops was obviously clumsy. What I meant was that out of perhaps 10,000 villages, if 50 of them reported being attacked by soviet troops one week and 50 more reported the same thing the week after that then at some point (conjecture) folks would have started laying ambushes on the roads.“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 For perhaps the first time in history the cards are being played face-out and we can track the evolution of the conflict in real-time. People are waking up and radicalizing against the threats to their fellow man due in no small part to what sneaks through the Left wing filters on social media. As they say. If we were powerless then their propaganda would not be necessary.</blockquote>

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