PS: According to the Internet, RED DAWN is forty years old today. …God help us all.
4 thoughts on “Movie of the Week: RED DAWN (the REAL one).”
The British government would like to arrest you for that.
Allow me to join you:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: 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? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Yep.
USAians have.. a different set of historical beliefs…
The rest of the world doesn’t seem able to understand how deep the differences go.
I, for one, would prefer to not have to teach the differences again.
Mew
I have posted this exact quote on a few right-leaning sites, and each time the author would censor it.
…Why would they do that? It’s a rough-edged sentiment, to be sure, but screw all Commie thugs anyway.
The British government would like to arrest you for that.
Allow me to join you:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: 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? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Yep.
USAians have.. a different set of historical beliefs…
The rest of the world doesn’t seem able to understand how deep the differences go.
I, for one, would prefer to not have to teach the differences again.
Mew
I have posted this exact quote on a few right-leaning sites, and each time the author would censor it.
…Why would they do that? It’s a rough-edged sentiment, to be sure, but screw all Commie thugs anyway.