Post B2f0UT8grhicCvEeTw by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
 (DIR) More posts by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
 (DIR) Post #B2f0UHvsWzvzS09lU8 by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
       2026-01-25T00:32:03Z
       
       1 likes, 1 repeats
       
       Dear American friends. Remember when you were laughing at Russians that they did nothing and let their country slip into authoritarianism? Well, there is your chance to show the world how it's done. To inspire you, a lite quote from "Gulag archipelago" by Solzenitsin, if you do nothing, this will be your future, so you might want to read it anyway:
       
 (DIR) Post #B2f0UNhZ5839LLVQ0W by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
       2026-01-25T00:32:18Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       “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,
       
 (DIR) Post #B2f0UT8grhicCvEeTw by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
       2026-01-25T00:32:26Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       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....
       
 (DIR) Post #B2f0UZBkNFjEy8iB4y by TOrynski@mastodon.scot
       2026-01-25T00:32:31Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”