Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

"At what exact point, then should one resist the communists? ... How we burned in the prison 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 people had simply not sat there in their lairs, paling with terror 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 else was at hand. ... The Organs [police] 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."

by:	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970
Source:	Gulag Archipelago
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Categories:	Communism, Courage, Defense, Resistance
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And what if instead of axes and hammers the people had had AR-15s and semi-automatic shotguns? An excellent first hand observation from a man of integrity.  -- J Carlton, Calgary      1
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I ask myself this question daily...  -- Matthew, People's Republic of California
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