I would disagree with Blockchain Robber Baron and others who hold the view that They are radicalizing people. That's an idiotic notion. People are so un-radicalized they have to invent Patriot Front, as lame and laughable a psyop as I've ever seen. Nor do they need a reason to move on anyone. They do what they feel they can get away with without taking losses, creating what reasons they find convenient as they go along.
And I guess Dissident Soaps was attempting some sort of sarcastic witticism? I can't really tell, but for those unfamiliar with his work, Solzhenitsyn said something far more valuable than Dissident Soaps:
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.
See how these things are related? The Bolsheviki thought they could get away with it, so that's what they did. They were right. Solzhenitsyn is only pointing out that if they had thought they couldn't get away with it, they would not have done it.
BTW, who said anyone was getting out of the gulag?
I would disagree with Blockchain Robber Baron and others who hold the view that They are radicalizing people. That's an idiotic notion. People are so un-radicalized they have to invent Patriot Front, as lame and laughable a psyop as I've ever seen. Nor do they need a reason to move on anyone. They do what they feel they can get away with without taking losses, creating what reasons they find convenient as they go along.
And I guess Dissident Soaps was attempting some sort of sarcastic witticism? I can't really tell, but for those unfamiliar with his work, Solzhenitsyn said something far more valuable than Dissident Soaps:
See how these things are related? The Bolsheviki thought they could get away with it, so that's what they did. They were right. Solzhenitsyn is only pointing out that if they had thought they couldn't get away with it, they would not have done it.
BTW, who said anyone was getting out of the gulag?
That's why you don't go to the gulag.