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General Patton once said:
"War will create heroes and heroes, and it will sweep away all sludge and muddy water"
。 Mankind has experienced two more world wars, each of which has brought countless painful memories to mankind. As General Patton said, times make heroes, but the misery of war is far from what heroes can save.
After the end of the Second World War, the suffering of the European people is still not over
On May 9, 1945, the Battle of Berlin marked the end of the European theater of World War II. At this time, more than 5 years have passed since the beginning of the Second World War, and although the war is over, the suffering of the European people is still continuing.
If there is any suffering that war brings to humanity, what can we think of? hunger? death? In fact, the most desperate thing is the degeneration of human morality.
According to statistics, in World War II, the number of people who died of starvation on the battlefield in Europe was one-fifth of the total number of deaths, which shows how high the proportion of starvation deaths is. What is even more frightening is that the starving killers brought by this war are far more devastating than the lethality brought by machine gun shells.
Driven by hunger, human civilization has completely collapsed and morality has gradually distorted.
Food not only became the savior of human life, but also became the "common currency" that everyone was chasing at that time, and owning it was equivalent to owning everything.
A box of canned goods makes a "dirty" deal
In July 1943, the Allies landed on Sicily and broke through the Italian city of Naples. More than 40 percent of the buildings in Naples were blown up, and the city's inhabitants experienced unimaginable hardships. After the Allies entered the city of Naples, they relied on canned food and other food distributed by the troops as food supplies.
But the city's unarmed inhabitants were denied a bite of food. Thus began an inhumane deal.
After getting familiar with the environment here, some of the soldiers who received cans were not in a hurry to eat. Instead, he walked into a building with a can.
Here is a group of Italian aristocratic women, who are still dressed in extraordinary clothes, but their yellow-skinned faces have long revealed that they have not eaten for many days.
The soldiers laid cans on the ground and stared at the women in front of them. At this moment, the role of the can is obviously far greater than money, in order to live, what is the so-called dignity?
For the sake of their own lives and their families' lives, the women's inner struggles appear fragile and powerless.
The soldiers threw the cans over and then walked toward the women.
What happened next, I think everyone can imagine. This dirty deal, which could not have been placed under the sun, seemed so natural at the time.
No one would condemn the soldiers, and no one would have the power to sympathize with the women.
Can do well
"Everybody sweeps the snow in front of the door"
It was already everyone's greatest resistance to the war at that time.
Don't forget the pain of war
Of course, it is not that there are no people with good hearts, but when someone throws the can in their hand at the children on the side of the road, it triggers a new round of competition and a small war.
Whenever this happens, the soldiers realize that the suffering of war cannot be solved by a single sympathy. The Allied cans were far from being able to save the huge hungry.
See here, we return to the question before, what did the war bring?
In addition to the few heroes, what is more common is the precious lives of millions, if not tens of millions, of innocent people who have lost their precious lives as a result of war, and those who have to give up their dignity for the sake of their lives.
What do you think about that?