The Shooters Not The Shot, The Bombers Not The Bombed

[poliphilo]

Ailz came across these figures.

33 million service personnel of all nations died in the big wars of the last century. And 48 million civilians.

And yet in our commemorations we mostly mourn the combatants-  the combatants who were also the killers.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

People need to learn how to read history from all perspectives, not just one!

See it from a Russian and central European viewpoint- 1914-45 if you include the wars, revolution, civil war, the deliberate genocidal starvation and the purges- something like 40 million dead in central Europe and Russia _alone_.