When Pacifism was not a swear word – Diepresse.com
Russia is on war economy, in the United States the arms industry is booming, and Europe is upgrading. The hope of peace lives, the chance of war is unfortunately great.
It was once a long time ago, the crossing of the border to my second half of life was still afraid. Back then, in my young age, pacifism was not a swear word, on the contrary. At most older rulers and women who still had the Second World War in the limbs talked about upgrading and frightened against a nuclear war on European soil, which would be even more devastating and deadly than the world wars I and II of nuclear war in Europe? Unthinkable! At that time.
Today? Seems in the light of trumpeled island mercy, Putinian wars of conquest, Chinese rush, Islamist world conquest fantasies, multi -religious wars of faith and European orientation difficulties.
In my youth friends, however, they joked about such gloomy forecasts. We preferred to stayBertha von Suttners « The weapons », quoted from the volume of poems « The People, Yes » by the American poet and historian Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) to the long-famous (and sometimes wrongly Bert Brecht attributed) sentence: « Sometime They’ll Give a War and Nobody will come », in German:
« Imagine it is war and nobody goes there. »
