“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?”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We must learn from this great quote!
Everyone should read Gulag Archipelago…I especially like how that paragraph ends with “every operative not knowing whether they would be going home and after leaving home if they would ever see their family for the last time” etc,…. That is what every enforcer will be thinking here, very soon I believe.