Sometimes, looking through the historical chronicles of many centuries, one can draw one simple, but extremely unpleasant conclusion - no events, probably, will ever teach mankind to appreciate their clan and clan. Unfortunately, we constantly destroy each other. Even in the modern world, filled with the latest technologies, there is always a place for victims of the hands of the like. Victims are like marks of certain milestones in the history of mankind, because it just so happened - every significant event carries the victims.
Fascism
Probably no one has mocked people so much in the history of the formation of the world, as the Nazis did during the Second World War. Perhaps someone's knowledge of those troubled times was replenished with the stories of grandparents, but let's remember what the Nazis loved to do so cruelly and heartlessly.
The struggle for the purity of the nation, the extermination of Soviet women and children, the Holocaust, blockades - all these sad historical events suffered the victims of fascism in oblivion. Nazithe troops did not stand on ceremony for a long time: they entered the cities in tanks, burned livestock, raped women, and took children into servants. No one argues, the Germans are ashamed of their ancestors - and this is perhaps one of the few examples of people coming to their senses and realizing their mistakes years later.
During the time of fascism, several million innocent people died. And I really want to believe that something like this will never happen again on our planet. Otherwise, what do we live for if we don't learn anything?!
The terrible autumn of 2004: a chronicle of events
Do you remember what happened in the fall of 2004? The whole world was shocked by terrible news: in the small town of Beslan, in North Ossetia, terrorists seized school No. 1, without waiting for the end of the solemn line in honor of the beginning of the school year.
Literally in the first hours of the terrible event, the attackers mined the gym and organized shooting with law enforcement agencies. Three passers-by were injured - these were the first victims of Beslan. Well, then everything was like in a nightmare: the terrorists demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya and the release of the raiders captured a week earlier in Ingushetia.
The attackers could not be persuaded to accept a ransom and free the hostages. And only on the second day of the nightmare, rescuers were able to achieve the withdrawal of two and a half dozen mothers with babies.
The nightmare ended on the third day. The assault lasted until midnight, few hostages managed to survive, and only one terrorist, who is now serving a life sentenceimprisonment in one of the colonies.
Dirty payback by the cleanest on earth
Perhaps, the victims of Beslan were the final result in the demonstrative terrorist actions that often occurred on the territory of the Russian Federation in the early 2000s. It is still unclear why on that September day, the dirty games of military commanders chose innocent children as retribution. It's scary to admit, but in this case, the victims are little angels who have just begun their lives.
More than fifty families of the city have lost someone in this terrible and dishonest game. The bodies of the dead are buried at the memorial cemetery in Beslan called the City of Angels, in the center of which there is a monument to the victims and rescuers. At the moment, this town in North Ossetia rather represents a living memory of those sad events of 2004, and, unfortunately, this notoriety will remain with it forever. All of Russia annually honors the memory of those accidentally killed in the school, which has long since become a living relic.
Victims of repression: those who answered for their civic duty
Politics will always remain one of the main reasons for the appearance of more and more victims in world history. It is hard to watch how children suffer, but no less chill on the skin when people are punished for their political views. The victims of political repression are among the saddest testimonies of the blatant absurdity and injustice of the post-Soviet regime.
Any self-respecting person remembers from school history textbooks about scaryevents of the 30s of the last century, when Comrade Stalin at one of the meetings of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party announced his decision to radically fight the followers of democratic trends in the USSR.
I don't want to remember how many innocent people were branded "Trotskyists". It is amazing that even simply suspicious individuals were punished, and even those who supported the activities of Comrade Stalin.
Victims of political repression of that time were divided into two categories: the first were sent into exile for decades, and those classified in the second category were shot on the spot.
The wives of the convicts had to follow their loved ones across the country in order to save their families, some were left with broken families, orphans, and all this is very undeserved - it's just that the circumstances were not in their favor.
Many committed suicide, unable to withstand the injustice of the regime. It is terrible to think that we all live on a planet filled with blood and undeserved suffering, but, alas, this is our history.
War today: why have we never learned anything?
When we talk about victims, unpleasant images immediately come to mind of the circumstances that led to fratricidal wars caused by the cruelty of people. Yes, people are cruel at all times and nothing can be done about it. We are not taught by historical facts, marked by sad bloody events.
Sometimes it seems that sacrifice is an integral part oflife and that nothing will change tomorrow. And that a revaluation of values will not happen even in a millennium. It turns out that in the world of nanotechnology and scientific progress, people are still interested in sharing power and territory, and as long as this interest is present in the intentions of people, there will be victims in dirty political games. The victims will be children, women and old people who are not guilty of anything. This is life, this is our history. But aren't we making it like this?
Victims of war - it's scary, it's bloody, it's not execution and not exile. In war, a painful death occurs much more often than a painless and quick one. During the war, you can lose not only your own life and he alth, but also shelter, loved ones and loved ones.
Sad today
The whole world with bated breath is following the sad events taking place in the east of Ukraine, which are also called anti-terrorist operations. But let's at least admit to ourselves: whatever they are called, civilians on both sides of the barricades suffer the most.
It's hard to imagine, but today, perhaps even at this very moment, someone's house is being destroyed by a shell, thereby destroying everything that an ordinary, innocent person has been equipping for years throughout his life. It's scary to think, but every day some mother loses her son, and it's even scarier to think that this son is a schoolboy who was killed by a random fragment on the street.
Victims are our acquaintances, perhaps even someone's friends and relatives. But why, understanding the whole horror of the situation, we cannot stop it in any way? Cruelty inour hearts with you, and, believe me, not a single TV show or newspaper will convey all the pain that everyone has to experience today.
How the memory is honored today
Let's stick to a dissenting opinion - the memory of the dead must be unequivocally honored, but the memory of the victims of innocent people must also be given their due. Every civilized country has a practice of minutes of silence, days of mourning and half-mast flags.
Walking around an unfamiliar city, especially in those places where sad events happened, each of you can stumble upon monuments and monuments to victims of various repressions, wars and terrorist attacks.
If it's not difficult, lay flowers on those who suffered for our future, light a candle. Each of us must take responsibility for what happened and try to do everything possible to prevent future sacrifice.
Any accidental death should be respected - do not neglect the minutes of silence. We must learn to draw the right lessons from history and avoid the mistakes that our ancestors made. No policy is worth human lives, not a single kilometer of conquered territory can be exchanged for someone's destroyed house, not a single power will succeed if it was established through pain and suffering. Let's get better - what will happen tomorrow and decades from now depends only on us and no one else. And sometimes the one who sacrifices people can become the veryvictim.
