I’m several years your senior and U.S. born/raised. As I read your words I realize just how severe my tunnel vision is. It rattles my memory of everything we were taught and reveals the ‘history’ I learned at home and school.
At this pivotal time in the world and my small personal ‘reality’ you’ve moved me to open my eyes to look beyond everything I was programmed to see and feel.
Motivating others stop, examine, evaluate, learn and actually listen is an art.
Thank you Mark, it means the world to me. I am writing a piece about how the privilege hidden under semblance of freedom is the trap we use to convince young men to die for their nation. And why when they come back now aware of this truth they feel cheated. This I believe is the major drama behind veteran suicide and mental health challenges.
There are so many cultural and historical narratives that are wrong or incomplete, that it makes my head spin. Thinking is hard. Thinking critically, even harder.
I understand, there is a way, and it is not in trying to solve or clarify. It to elevate ourselves above the narrative, feel into the human soul, seek the darkness that is hidden there and that is reflected in the world.
When we see ourselves , the dear, the doubt, the challenge, we also see that the only answer to this is Love. That is the true message of Christ.
You left out some key points when it comes to understanding Moscow's role in WWII and since.
Before the Soviets fought the Nazis, the Soviets aided the Nazis. Hence the Russian emphasis on 1941 being the start of the "Great Patriotic War" and not 1939 with the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland.
It was 27 million Soviets who died, disproportionately Ukrainians and Belarusians. As now, Russians do love feeding their ethnic minorities into battle for them. In any case, the Soviets would have lost to the Nazis from incompetence and insufficient industry if not for the Americans.
Thank you for your contribution dear one. Of course I left many things out, this is a long history and I am no historian either.
I am by no mean conveying the message that current and past leadership of either USSR or Russia are nice people who cared for their population or the world at large. I hope you can see that.
I am trying to speak a voice that break the limiting narrative we hear way too much.
Surely you’d consider the facts like the CIA created / funded the Taliban before we fought them. That we carry responsibility being ISIS etc
And the USSR did they share of shit in exactly the same way.
I hope to wake up people out of the propaganda that see a good side and a bad side, from my perspective it is mostly two bad sides.
I have never a soldier killing a communist, I have only seen people killing others who are trying their best to make it through their daily lives the best they could.
Hope you can see my intention despite the necessary short cut I am making.
I’m several years your senior and U.S. born/raised. As I read your words I realize just how severe my tunnel vision is. It rattles my memory of everything we were taught and reveals the ‘history’ I learned at home and school.
At this pivotal time in the world and my small personal ‘reality’ you’ve moved me to open my eyes to look beyond everything I was programmed to see and feel.
Motivating others stop, examine, evaluate, learn and actually listen is an art.
thank you!
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Thank you Mark, it means the world to me. I am writing a piece about how the privilege hidden under semblance of freedom is the trap we use to convince young men to die for their nation. And why when they come back now aware of this truth they feel cheated. This I believe is the major drama behind veteran suicide and mental health challenges.
You might like it.
There are so many cultural and historical narratives that are wrong or incomplete, that it makes my head spin. Thinking is hard. Thinking critically, even harder.
I understand, there is a way, and it is not in trying to solve or clarify. It to elevate ourselves above the narrative, feel into the human soul, seek the darkness that is hidden there and that is reflected in the world.
When we see ourselves , the dear, the doubt, the challenge, we also see that the only answer to this is Love. That is the true message of Christ.
Forgive them all, they know not what they do...
You left out some key points when it comes to understanding Moscow's role in WWII and since.
Before the Soviets fought the Nazis, the Soviets aided the Nazis. Hence the Russian emphasis on 1941 being the start of the "Great Patriotic War" and not 1939 with the joint Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland.
https://igorsushko.substack.com/p/russias-recent-history-of-serial
https://polandatwartours.substack.com/p/the-soviet-invasion-from-the-east
https://marcusson.substack.com/p/russians-fighting-for-the-nazis-during
It was 27 million Soviets who died, disproportionately Ukrainians and Belarusians. As now, Russians do love feeding their ethnic minorities into battle for them. In any case, the Soviets would have lost to the Nazis from incompetence and insufficient industry if not for the Americans.
https://marcusson.substack.com/p/the-american-industries-defeated
The driving force behind NATO's existence is and has been Russian imperialism and hatred.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-kremlin-dictators-keep-nato-alive-putin-russia-ukraine
https://www.kyleorton.com/p/why-putins-regime-says-jews-are-the
Thank you for your contribution dear one. Of course I left many things out, this is a long history and I am no historian either.
I am by no mean conveying the message that current and past leadership of either USSR or Russia are nice people who cared for their population or the world at large. I hope you can see that.
I am trying to speak a voice that break the limiting narrative we hear way too much.
Surely you’d consider the facts like the CIA created / funded the Taliban before we fought them. That we carry responsibility being ISIS etc
And the USSR did they share of shit in exactly the same way.
I hope to wake up people out of the propaganda that see a good side and a bad side, from my perspective it is mostly two bad sides.
I have never a soldier killing a communist, I have only seen people killing others who are trying their best to make it through their daily lives the best they could.
Hope you can see my intention despite the necessary short cut I am making.
With Love
in the same direction...
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/some-thoughts-on-ukraine