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“Universal innocence also gave rise to the universal failure to act. Maybe they won't take you? Maybe it will all blow over?”

The Gulag Archipelago

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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“A. I. Ladyzhensky was the chief teacher in a school in remote Kologriv. In 1937 a peasant approached him in an open market and passed him a message from a third person: "Aleksandr Ivanich, get out of town, you are on the list!" But he stayed: After all, the whole school…

…rests on my shoulders, and their own children are pupils here. How can they arrest me? (Several days later he was arrested.)

Not everyone was so fortunate as to understand at the age of fourteen, as did Vanya Levitsky: "Every honest man is sure to go to prison. Right now…

…my papa is serving time, and when I grow up they'll put me in too. " (They put him in when he was twenty-three years old.) The majority sit quietly and dare to hope. Since you aren’t guilty, then how can they arrest you? It's a mistake! They are already dragging you along…

…by the collar and you still keep on exclaiming to yourself: a mistake! They'll set things straight and let me out!"

The Gulag Archipelago

-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn