What Is the Best Option to Stop the Rise of Totalitarian Rule?

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Courageous action from as many people as possible is needed to prevent the rise of totalitarian rule. The sooner people act in defiance of would be totalitarians, the greater the chance of success. No weapons, no matter how powerful, can help the west until it overcomes its loss of will power by contributing to the creation of a parallel society.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on the Soviet Union’s descent into totalitarian rule in the mid-20th century, and all the things that could have been done to prevent it, wrote the following: “If…if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation. . .we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! … We purely and simply deserved everything that […]

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