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If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do?

Comrade Teacher: This is a miracle from our glorious Fidel! All of the candy that we can eat! Here!
[tossing handfuls of candy at the children in the classroom]
Comrade Teacher: Take all that you want! This is a miracle! Not from your Jesus Christ, but from our glorious Fidel Castro!

The Commissar: What's the matter, little boy?
Dark haired boy: Where's my momma, and my daddy? You've killed them haven't you?
The Commissar: Yes... Think of how much better off you will be. The State will provide for you, take care of your every need. Much better than your mother or father, either.
Dark haired boy: I don't want yo' state. I want my momma, and my daddy!
The Commissar: Now you listen to me, little boy. What is done is done! You now belong to the state. Now you listen very carefully to what I have to say. We do not want to kill you! But we will - unless you cooperate.
[taking the boy's painting of Jesus]
The Commissar: Now then... Now if you will step on this picture of your Jesus, with your heel, we will let you go free.
[throws the painting to the ground and smears his foot across it]
The Commissar: But if you don't -
[opening a large knife]
The Commissar: we will cut your head off.
Dark haired boy: [looking to the sky] Jesus, one day you died for me, and I'm willing to die for you.
[glares back at the Commissar]
The Commissar: Why you stupid little *foo*!

Estus W. Pirkle: These people are sitting on benches with no cushions or backs. They'll be forced to sit there for seventeen hours - from five in the morning until ten at night. They will not be fed or watered until they return to their skimpy barracks. Now you ask, why are they here? They are listening to a recorded lecture that is repeated over and over and over again: Communism is good. Communism is good. Communism is good. Christianity is stupid. Christianity is stupid. Christianity is stupid. Give up. Give up. Give up.

Estus W. Pirkle: [ending lines] You too might have a need for Jesus to come into your life. Or perhaps you might need more information. If so, please write me, Estus Pirkle, New Albany, Mississippi. But right now, this very moment, wouldn't you like to receive Jesus as your own personal savior? Will you get up and come to the altar? This could be the most important decision of your lifetime. Will you come? Will you come? Will you come?

Estus W. Pirkle: The Communist treatment of Christian women is horrible to imagine. For example, they like to strip a woman naked, and tie her head to one Jeep and her legs to another Jeep, and pull her limb from limb. Perhaps the most horrible thing that Communists do to Christian women is to make them play toys in the hands of their soldiers, as we shall see in this documented incident.

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What is the English language plot outline for If Footmen Tire You What Will Horses Do? (1971)?