"Destructive and irresponsible freedom has been granted boundless space. Society appears to have little defense against the abyss of human decadence, s...

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~












Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely f...
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