To
stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. You can
resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let
the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no
sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will
rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor
reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age,
we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new
generations.
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was
the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60
million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to
repeat: ‘Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.’
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside
observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic
courage . . . . Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable
among the ruling and intellectual elite, causing an impression of a loss
of courage by the entire society.
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?… The Organs
would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport
and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would
have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even
more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply
deserved everything that happened afterward.
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