"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?... 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." - Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago