Tear It Down

Oh, how many ideas and works had perished in that building – a whole lost culture? Oh, soot, from the Lubyanka chimneys! And the most hurtful thing of all was that our descendants would consider our generation more stupid, less gifted, less vocal than in actual fact it was.

Innocence and Guilt

Therefore, the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. -Habakkuk 1:4 NIV

The Subversive Man

And he who sings not with us today is against us! – Mayakovsky

Defining a Terrorist

It is fascinating how the Soviet Criminal Code was abused when it came to laws against terrorism. As we see this playing out in the United States, we should realize it isn’t a new tactic. Solzhenitsyn says that “terror” began to be construed broadly not just as an act, like trying to bomb a politician’s

Put a Label on Them

“Then it was also necessary to get rid of those peasants, some of them not at all prosperous, who, because of their daring, their physical strength, their determination, their outspokenness at meetings, and their love of justice, were favorites of their fellow villagers and by virtue of their independence were therefore dangerous to the leadership of the collective farms.”

“The History of Our Sewage Disposal System”

“Lysenko could not say that the snow was a kulak or that he himself was an ass. He accused the agronomists of being kulaks and of distorting his technology. And the agronomists went off to Serbia.”

Atheism – Communism’s Religion

“You can pray freely, but just so God alone can hear.”

Self Preservation

“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”

Submissive Sheep

“A submissive sheep is a find for a wolf.”