That there is in this world neither brains, nor goodness, nor good sense, but only brute force. Bloodshed. Starvation. Death. That there was not the slightest hope not even a glimmer of hope, of justice being done. It would never happen. No one would ever do it. The world was just one big Babi Yar. And there two great forces had come up against each other and were striking against each other like hammer and anvil, and the wretched people were in between, with no way out; each individual wanted only to live and not be maltreated, to have something to eat, and yet they howled and screamed and in their fear they were grabbing at each other’s throats, while I, little blob of watery jelly, was sitting in the midst of this dark world. Why? What for? Who had done it all? There was nothing, after all, to hope for! Winter. Night.
Anatoly KuznetsovTag: world-war-ii depression holocaust babi-yar ukraine
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
AberjhaniTag: inspiration philosophy peace war spirituality iraq terrorism afghanistan ukraine war-in-iraq courage-to-love world-suicide-prevention-day human-rights-day peacism police-reform police-shootings september-9-11 stop-killing-each-other syrian-war teaching-diversity waging-peace
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, historians have become both more accurate and more honest—fractionally more brave, one might say—about that 'other' cleansing of the regions and peoples that were ground to atoms between the upper and nether millstones of Hitlerism and Stalinism. One of the most objective chroniclers is Professor Timothy Snyder of Yale University. In his view, it is still 'Operation Reinhardt,' or the planned destruction of Polish Jewry, that is to be considered as the centerpiece of what we commonly call the Holocaust, in which of the estimated 5.7 million Jewish dead, 'roughly three million were prewar Polish citizens.' We should not at all allow ourselves to forget the millions of non-Jewish citizens of Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, and other Slav territories who were also massacred. But for me the salient fact remains that anti-Semitism was the regnant, essential, organizing principle of all the other National Socialist race theories. It is thus not to be thought of as just one prejudice among many.
Christopher HitchensTag: honesty history bravery prejudice antisemitism historians holocaust racism accuracy jews russia poland nazism ukraine national-socialism stalinism massacre 1989 belarus berlin-wall operation-reinhard polish-jews slavic-peoples timothy-d-snyder yale-university
Єсть на світі доля,
А хто її знає?
Єсть на світі воля,
А хто її має?
Єсть люде на світі —
Сріблом-злотом сяють,
Здається, панують,
А долі не знають,—
Ні долі, ні волі!
З нудьгою та з горем
Жупан надівають,
А плакати — сором.
Возьміть срібло-злото
Та будьте багаті,
А я візьму сльози —
Лихо виливати;
Затоплю недолю
Дрібними сльозами,
Затопчу неволю
Босими ногами!
Тоді я веселий,
Тоді я багатий,
Як буде серденько
По волі гуляти!
Tag: life freedom fate tears ukraine shevchenko
Як умру, то поховайте
Мене на могилі,
Серед степу широкого,
На Вкраїні милій,
Щоб лани широкополі,
І Дніпро, і кручі
Було видно, було чути,
Як реве ревучий.
Як понесе з України
У синєє море
Кров ворожу... отойді я
І лани, і гори —
Все покину і полину
До самого Бога
Молитися... а до того
Я не знаю Бога.
Поховайте та вставайте,
Кайдани порвіте
І вражою злою кров’ю
Волю окропіте.
І мене в сем’ї великій,
В сем’ї вольній, новій,
Не забудьте пом’янути
Незлим тихим словом.
Tag: life death honor homeland ukraine dnieper-river
…there is no other logical explanation for how things ultimately worked out except by God’s hand.
Kim De BlecourtTag: orphans ukraine ginger-kolbaba international-adoption until-we-all-come-home kim-de-blecourt
We, who have so much, need to reach out to the orphans of this world and show them the care, hope, and love they deserve.
Kim De BlecourtTag: orphans ukraine ginger-kolbaba international-adoption until-we-all-come-home kim-de-blecourt
And now the fight continues for all orphans and children who need families who will love and care for them—until they too can all go home.
Kim De BlecourtTag: orphans ukraine ginger-kolbaba international-adoption until-we-all-come-home kim-de-blecourt
But I'm here. I will love him. I will be his mother.
Kim De BlecourtTag: adoption orphans ukraine ginger-kolbaba international-adoption until-we-all-come-home kim-de-blecourt
Fear gripped me as my children and I arrived at the Ukraine-Moldova border crossing.
Kim De BlecourtTag: orphans ukraine ginger-kolbaba international-adoption until-we-all-come-home kim-de-blecourt
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