Thu Jul 7 15:15:17 2022
(*4cfb807c*):: Kulak defense league
(*4cfb807c*):: It was the prime statement very early in Gulag Archipelago, he talked about how if they had only resisted and put up a fight … There are not enough trained jackboots to go around in full force, at every scene to withstand the resistance of unified and armed kulaks
(*4cfb807c*):: There was no going back once arrested and interned and then on a train. Forced confessions through torture for any made up crime, coerced to inform and give up the names of your friends and family, anything you could think to say to save your skin. Its a kangaroo system.
(*4cfb807c*)::
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
(*4cfb807c*):: They went for the farmers, engineers and any competent worker in the first 10 years just seemingly out of spite
(*3bd42332*):: +public!