Posted by Andrew
(here)
It's funny the horrors of war stay the main topic and the people most upset about it keep reminding us yet we never get to actually understanding the war properly (maybe that's the point). Some times I dont think people understand what War is?
Does it really matter whether you get shot in the face or bayoneted in the throat or shot in the back of the head or a grenade land on your lap or a bomb land on your house or stretched on a rack or hung drawn and quartered or all the other ways of killing people? does it matter if you get shot on the battlefield or in a camp? what is the difference? most people signed up happily most didn't even know what they were fighting for..
So lets get past what happens in War... people die **** loads of them. There has been wars on this planet all they way back in time we could go on and on about how people die in them.
Most didn't even know what they were fighting for... nearly 70 years on neither do we.
So what was so important to have this war of all wars?
What was one man fighting for? (excuse me while I laugh my head off at the fact it was Hitlers war on his own) you just don't get that kind of support for nothing. (today we have wars that nobody supports.. and against who ? Don't we bomb brown people? the weak?)
What was the allies fighting for?
And where do the people (commoners) come into all this?
Was the leaders on both sides just fighting for themselves?
both sides did equally bad things to eachother
From what I've gathered Stalin did 10x more horrendous things then Hitler atleast people wanted to fight for Hitler as Stalin had to bully his country to fight.
In Germany people actually knew what they were fighting for and for the allies all they knew was they were going to war......
I wonder what people would think if the government said "Right we going to eradicate the mafia we've had enough of there dealings and way of life" Most people would go hip hip hooray... lock em up.. off with his head!! and so on