First published at 23:52 UTC on September 22nd, 2021.
In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book GULAG ARCHIPELAGO, Solzhenitsyn, who lived through the Gulags, speak of when they’re all together in the Gulag -- under the worst possible conditions -- they said: “If we had only known, when they came to round …
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In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book GULAG ARCHIPELAGO, Solzhenitsyn, who lived through the Gulags, speak of when they’re all together in the Gulag -- under the worst possible conditions -- they said: “If we had only known, when they came to round us up as individuals… if we’d only grabbed a frying pan, or a pipe, or a rock and attacked these criminals…” They simply didn’t conceive, even when they were being rounded up as individual human beings, that things could possibly be as bad as they turned out to be.
It is understandable.
It’s understandable that they were hesitant to attack the state apparatchiks when going off to the Gulag -- just as the Jews rarely attacked the Gestapo when they were rounding them up to take them off to camps.
You naturally might think, “These people can’t be that serious. These people can’t be that bad….” But one would be wrong to think this.
It takes a great deal of courage and independent thought to even consider these things, let alone try to do something about it. The fact that we are seeing such mass uprisings all across the globe shows that a great many people HAVE learned from the atrocities of the past.
What we're facing is every bit as grave and as serious as anything that's ever happened, possibly worse.
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