"What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Just a white pill reminder to my fellow Canucks here. And to the glowies lurking in this sub a warning.
Solzhenitsyn was a giant once, a darling of the west that changed later. His Boston speech is s must to read. Russia those old days people had much more compassion for each other and they were not brainwashed that officials are looking out for their safety and they failed. much different today in this country, we are scared of "unsafe" conditions or activities or worse yet death, we don't have any sense of togetherness either