There is only one way to answer those questions through historical precedents. That way starts with love of those whom you want to understand. Love and admiration. And respect. You start with yourself first. Can you love and respect those people long dead who had just proven to you that they certainly were better humans than you are. Yes, from Jean D'Arc through Martha Corey and Nathan Hale, Ugo Foscolo, Colonel Chamberlain, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Stephan Lux, Sofia Scholl, Rose Luxemburg, Alfred Dreyfus and General Karbushev, etc, etc- the thread leads to the heroes of Vesterplatte, Podolsk and Brest and to those who stormed Berlin. They all were free, they considered freedom as a paramount value, something in the air, water and soil, something natural. And their cause was just. That's why they always won even when they lost. There will always be the rallied French, the Marseilles or Siberian armies or Spartacus battalions or Lincoln brigade. Those among us who think that they can bomb anyone to oblivion better understand that fast.
- Our tombs are now in five different countries....
That's what Boris Slutsky, the "rabbi- commissar' wrote about his young friends who died promoting freedom all over the world. Yes, that's true. 70 years ago the people of Russia were attacked not by just Germans. They were attacked by concentrated forces of darkness. And in the miracle of unbelievable rising they resurrected and nurtured freedom as the only virtue worth preserving. It was a true national feat. That's why the marble of lieutenants will withstand the challenge of centuries.
- Marshals and soldiers were the same in that war and there are no the firsts and no the lasts- all are the one.
Good people are those who deserved those songs and verses. Really good ones. If we acknowledge that we can become better too. In fact it is the only way to become better.
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