...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of <i>everything</i>. For a person you've taken <i>everything</i> from is no longer in you… - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The days rolled by in the camp — they were over before you could say "knife." But the years, they never rolled by; they never moved by a second."

The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them.

Human nature is full of riddles, and one of these riddles is this: How is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength to rise up and free themselves, first in spirit then in body, while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly appear to lose the taste for freedom, lose the will to defend it, and hopelessly confused and lost almost begin to crave slavery?