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...fact, the short freeze in the aftermath of Georgia was the exception that proves the rule - which reads: "When in doubt, seek to please." Call it instinct, call it reflex - the fact is that Europe (minus those Easterners who remember the terrible old days under the Soviet knout) will seek to avoid confrontation. The Russians know it, and the Obama Administration will learn this soon enough...
...former soldier, Solzhenitsyn deeply identifies with the plight of these wretched men. He records "with shame" an incident he witnessed at the front. A sergeant of the Soviet Secret police, on horseback, was using a knout on a captured Russian soldier who had served in a German unit. Staggering, the man was naked from the waist up, his torso covered with blood. Suddenly he cried out to Solzhenitsyn in agony: "Mister Captain...
...Round Up recounts the misadventures of roving Hungarian patriots in 1868. With mechanical authority, Austrian troops traverse the nation, rounding up the freedom fighters in an unending search for their leader. Even 100 years ago, captors were instinctively aware that mental anguish was far more effective than the knout or the noose. Alternating terror with false promises, the Austrians turn innocent men against each other. Betrayal becomes the order of the day; dignity and honor are exchanged for the reprieve that never comes...
...Knout came in for the lion's share of criticism this time around. Poll after poll called him "dumb," "unintelligent," "thick-skulled," "stupid," or moronic." As one student summarized the feelings of the class: "That man is an idiot...
...apply a little enlightenment to her realm. With regal practicality she retorted: "Your medium is paper, and paper is always patient. I, Empress that I am, have to write on the sensitive skins of human beings." She did not add that she preferred to write with a knout...