"Birds and the people who love freedom have something common: They must fly freely to feel that they are alive!"

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If... if... We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We spent ourselves in one unrestrained outburst in 1917, and then we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! ........... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn