War in Ukraine
@TypicalRussian (747)
Budennovsk, Russian Federation
July 8, 2022 3:41pm CST
Imagine you wake up one morning, open news feed or news generator of the city you are livingg in and see the headlines and you cant beleive your eyes. It is reported that your brother/sister/uncle/aunt/ newphew has robbed one of the local stores and severely attacked that old lady cashier, who was always friendly and nice to you when you were having a smalltalk while paying.
The news show the photos and videos of your relative commiting that crime and it is reported that now he is fleeing and the whole district police department is activated, planning to intercept and catch the criminal.
You read this and understand that now all the neighbours, colleagues and even your hairdresser will know about this crime and that YOU will have to answer peoples questions about why that could happen in your family, what was the problem, whether that deviated behaviour could also be attributed to you as a representative of the family, whether there is a proclivity to have this type of a psychological deviation could also be attributed to all the rest members of your family....
That would be somewhat of a similar feeling that i had when i read the news on the 24th of February.
Would you feel shame? Yes, you would think "I cant fathom the reason of that behaviour of his/hers. I admit, he/she used to have some problems in his/her childhood, but psychologically stable adults, to whom i count myself, wont ever do that"
Would you feel personal responsibility for that? First days-yes. But then you remember "I have to move forward, i remember the Smiths had some similar case 70 years ago and they must have felt shame as well, but they moved on and now they live quite well without those guilty memories"
Would you approve or justify that deviated behaviour of your relative? Never.
There is no excuse or explanations for that, except for deluded ambitions of the dictator to expand the territory at the cost of lies and death.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
9 Jul 22
I don't think anyone blames the people for the dictator's actions. I can understand how you feel upset for their actions. I would also.
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@marguicha (222756)
• Chile
8 Jul 22
Most of the time civilians are the ones to live worse because of political reasons. Many decades ago, my grand aunts and uncles could not see each other for a long time because after the second world war, countries built the wall in Berlin. My father who was born here could only see his aunt, a pianist, once.
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@LeaPea2417 (37350)
• Toccoa, Georgia
8 Jul 22
The whole Ukraine war upsets me to think about.
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@TypicalRussian (747)
• Budennovsk, Russian Federation
11 Jul 22
i tried to use metaphors :) it is meant metaphorically just to give a sort of comparison, projection. How would you explan a war/this war to the kids? That would be an interesting stuff, especially from a perspective of a former teacher who knows how to explain precisely and consicse :)
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@MALUSE (69373)
• Germany
11 Jul 22
@TypicalRussian I taught foreign languages, not history, and my pupils were not small children.
All children fight with each other if they want the same thing, but only one child can have it. I'd explain it with such an example.
And I'd only explain a complicated matter if the child asked.
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@Deepizzaguy (102525)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
8 Jul 22
I would feel shame that one of my relatives would commit acts of extreme acts of evil invading another nation to expand his territory of his homeland.
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