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Posted by metalgearsolid on Jan-15-2007 18:42:

A little something...I WROTE...

...I wrote in caps because some of you may not like my grammar and sentences. Not to name names but like pkc and pkc and pkc.

story below
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My friend the other day and I went out. We did our usual routine: go to nickel city and play videogames for several hours, than drive around listening to music and enjoying the sights we had never seen.
We drove to Minneapolis and there we stopped by his cousin and other relatives. His entire familiy lives there while he stays here. His grand parents moved to Minnesota after the Russian revolution, however; one of his brothers stayed behing in Russia. I find the Grand father, who oddly enough is still alive, and begin to talk with him. We ended up talking about the Russian Czar and the Russians opinion of the Czar before he was overthrown.
According to him, the Russian majority were in favor of the Czar. They loved him and viewed him as the rightful leader of the Russian land.
Now the story begins. The younger brother(grandpa) loved the Czar while the older one hated the Czar. They were three years of age apart. The older brother was a revolutionary. He was sent to Siberia by the Czar. He spent two years in Siberia doing hard labor. And the younger brother stayed at home because he didn't want to leave his parents alone. He told me that one of them had to live old enough to see thier parents die. This changed when the parents gave him a bundle of cash and a ticket out of Russia. He came to the US.
When the first world war began. The grandpa's older cousins went to the war for the Czar and Russia. Out of the 9 cousins who went only one came back. There was a lot of movements during that time but the majority of Russians were not communists and did not speak of overthrowing the Czar. All what these people wanted was food. The communist party talked about giving people food and land and security. And conditions were so extreme that people believed what the party was saying. When the older brother came back he immediately joined the Bolsheviks. He was fooled by what the party said about giving the people liberty. These people were extremists.
The older brother ascended into the ranks of the party and the grandfather showed me a picture of him with Stalin and some other party members. Who were all dressed in fatigues. I should mention that by this time the brothers were in seperate countries and one was ascending into power and the other began to work and study at the university. One day the brother stopped receiving letters from the older brother. So with this the younger brother expected his brother was too busy to write. And that he had probably been given such a prominent position in the party. That he didn't have time for family. His brother always put ideology before family.
After forty years had passed. The grandpa went to the Soviet Union, to his hometown near St. Petersburg. To see his brother and parents if they were still alive. Though he suspected that his parents had died off due to old age. When he arrived to his old town, his home was empty. He walked to his, she was a really family friend. When she recognized who he was they both greated one another and hugged and laughed together. Than he asked her where his family was. That is when her face turned serious and she walked back into her house. She didn't come outside so he entered her home. She was drinking tea and offered him some. He refused and asked what was that letter on the table. She told him it was from his brother and that she had opened it. She was told not to but she was too curious to not open.
She handed him the letter and told him it would be wise for him to sit down and read it. He didn't. He took the letter and left her home. On the airplane he took the letter out of his coat pocket and began reading the letter. His brother wrote about his ascension into what became known as the NKVD. He talked about how he had been asked for a special assignment from comrade Stalin. He was to go back home an pick up his parents. His parents were enemies of the state because they had money and his father was actively funding armies to oppose the reds during the revolution. The brother had agreed and he knew this was true.
He trusted Stalin when he said that his parents would not be harmed and that they would serve a minimal prison sentence and then they would be allowed to leave Russia. When he arrested his parents and took them back to the prision. The guards began to beat his parents in front of him. The brother became upset and began to fight against the guards. Saying what are you doing?! They are not to be harmed comrade Stalin had said so. These guards after restraining him told him that Stalin wanted them tortured and killed. After realizing what he was responsible for the brother went back to his apartment and commited suicide. That was the reason to why the younger brother never heard from his family again.
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The point of the story is that whenever extremists are given positions of power. Always expect for the worse.