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the fields will be green again
I always tried to take into account shades because one of the practical lessons I learned on my own skin is that humanity is generally made up of shades of gray, and white angels or black demons are not a rule.
But that doesn't mean that when I have a demon in front of me, I don't recognize it.
Alexey Navalny, a critic of the Putin regime, received 9 (nine!) years of maximum security prison yesterday. He was convicted of stealing $ 4 million. This happens in the country that is probably the largest kleptocracy in the world. Two of the lawyers who defended him were arrested at the end of the trial.
Yes, the United States has its sins. Yes, Europe has its weaknesses. Maybe the western world (of which Romania, thank God!, is part today) no longer has the strong leaders from the last half of the 20th century, maybe it still deviates sometimes, maybe it has a lot of gray shades.
But Putin's regime is one of total blackness, a dizzying blackness, a blackness without other drops.
To date, 43 Russian military attacks have been documented on hospitals in Ukraine.
43 - attacks - hospitals! Demonic!
Not recognizing such a demon, or pretending not to see him, makes you partaker with him, makes you part of him.
Whether you're a fine church conservative or a left-wing intellectual empath, or you're taking on cool ecological hipster, not seeing it or looking back from the deep black next to us to various other grays, makes you partaker with the demon, makes you part of it.
And I know that if you had lived in the '30s, '40s, or '50s, you would have been there with him, a partner with him on the Soviet tank, you would have been pleased to see how Holodomor or Gulag crushed the lives of decent people.
I know. I have no doubt. And I also know that you are here, among us, that you breathe next to us and that, if given the opportunity, you would not hesitate for a moment.
I have no illusions. Maybe it's time not to have illusions. In order not to repeat to our children, the crushing that our grandparents had.
the fields will be green again
I always tried to take into account shades because one of the practical lessons I learned on my own skin is that humanity is generally made up of shades of gray, and white angels or black demons are not a rule.
But that doesn't mean that when I have a demon in front of me, I don't recognize it.
Alexey Navalny, a critic of the Putin regime, received 9 (nine!) years of maximum security prison yesterday. He was convicted of stealing $ 4 million. This happens in the country that is probably the largest kleptocracy in the world. Two of the lawyers who defended him were arrested at the end of the trial.
Yes, the United States has its sins. Yes, Europe has its weaknesses. Maybe the western world (of which Romania, thank God!, is part today) no longer has the strong leaders from the last half of the 20th century, maybe it still deviates sometimes, maybe it has a lot of gray shades.
But Putin's regime is one of total blackness, a dizzying blackness, a blackness without other drops.
To date, 43 Russian military attacks have been documented on hospitals in Ukraine.
43 - attacks - hospitals! Demonic!
Not recognizing such a demon, or pretending not to see him, makes you partaker with him, makes you part of him.
Whether you're a fine church conservative or a left-wing intellectual empath, or you're taking on cool ecological hipster, not seeing it or looking back from the deep black next to us to various other grays, makes you partaker with the demon, makes you part of it.
And I know that if you had lived in the '30s, '40s, or '50s, you would have been there with him, a partner with him on the Soviet tank, you would have been pleased to see how Holodomor or Gulag crushed the lives of decent people.
I know. I have no doubt. And I also know that you are here, among us, that you breathe next to us and that, if given the opportunity, you would not hesitate for a moment.
I have no illusions. Maybe it's time not to have illusions. In order not to repeat to our children, the crushing that our grandparents had.