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Herzen - Fight Against Tyranny

We Came This Way · August 2, 1945 · 28 min · 4,012 words

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Down the long path of history, tramping across centuries and continents and the graves of kings and the necks of dictators, seeking always a way of life where the people have their freedom, believing, praying, fighting, dying.

We came this way. The NBC University of the Air, a public service feature of the National Broadcasting Company, and its affiliated stations present, We came this way a new historical series for our listeners at home and overseas With Clifton Uplas Narrator we present chapter 5 the story of Alexander Hetson and his fight against tyranny

We came this way For conspiracy against his imperative majesty the charge for treasonous action against the government You shall be hung by the neck until you are dead One hundred lashes to be delivered upon the naked back by order of his majesty, the sound.

What gives them the name of my father? These peasants must be whipped regularly, otherwise they will enjoy their leisure too much. Is the lashing whip a familiar sound to you? Is the scream of pain and the groan before the fainting apart of your liberal education?

Or do you look upon the merely as the symbols of ancient tyranny? As long as we take the common people as clay, and ourselves as the sculptors, and from our sublime heights moulded into a statue, Have you ever sat in your room, Why do you thesis on the freedom of man, and then suddenly heard his sound, and wrote

the last sentence, walked down the stairs, and opened the door carefully, and faced the grim faces and official uniforms of the police, and had them tell you? You will come with us! You are under arrest!

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