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Originally Posted by Carmen
Hell bells Baggywrinkle, that scenerio is very depressing. Perhaps I should just go shoot myself now, get it over and done with!!!!! Lol Not bloody likely, this woman's not giving up the vision. The vision of how I see it, and the more I envision it, is a self sufficient paradise, of people growing food, cooperating, sharing goods and living well. Communities thriving.
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This happened in the Soviet Union.
If you know the likely scenarios you cannot be blind sided and surprised. Go and read about the genocide of
the Kulaks. Knowledge is power.
Stalin also imposed the Soviet system of land management known as collectivization. This resulted in the seizure of all privately owned farmlands and livestock, in a country where 80 percent of the people were traditional village farmers. Among those farmers, were a class of people called Kulaks by the Communists. They were formerly wealthy farmers that had owned 24 or more acres, or had employed farm workers. Stalin believed any future insurrection would be led by the Kulaks, thus he proclaimed a policy aimed at "liquidating the Kulaks as a class."
Declared "enemies of the people," the Kulaks were left homeless and without a single possession as everything was taken from them, even their pots and pans. It was also forbidden by law for anyone to aid dispossessed Kulak families. Some researchers estimate that ten million persons were thrown out of their homes, put on railroad box cars and deported to "special settlements" in the wilderness of Siberia during this era, with up to a third of them perishing amid the frigid living conditions. Men and older boys, along with childless women and unmarried girls, also became slave-workers in Soviet-run mines and big industrial projects.
Back in the Ukraine, once-proud village farmers were by now reduced to the level of rural factory workers on large collective farms. Anyone refusing to participate in the compulsory collectivization system was simply denounced as a Kulak and deported.
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhis...ide/stalin.htm
Don't shoot yourself. Make them do it. If they are going to destroy you and everything you have worked for, make it expensive for them! Listen to the wisdom of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Do not
go quietly! Come home with your shield or on it.
Strange words coming from a Quaker? Pacifism is not my forte when it comes to my family. I'm working on it!
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!
meaning "Come and take them!", is a classical expression of defiance reported by Plutarch in response to the Persian Army's demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons. It corresponds roughly to the modern equivalent English phrase "over my dead body". It is an exemplary use of a laconic phrase.
