Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Binge and...

...purge...[Read]

[Via JulianThree]
Posted by David Codrea at 12/01/2010 01:40:00 PM

2 comments:

GardenSERF said...

Thanks for linking to this suppressed bit of important 20th century history.

12/01/2010 4:52 PM
Ed said...

"How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: What would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If during periods of mass arrests 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 to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs 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."

-Alexander Solzhenitsyn

word verification - "tentap"
Is that five times more effective than a double tap?

12/02/2010 12:26 AM

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