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The human nature is a interesting thing, to say the least.
We are always so eager to brand people as something bad, that we end up turning in to them ourselves.
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As a pretty good example, we have the National Socialist German Workers Party, or more commonly: The Nazi Party.
The hatred against the Nazis comes from its "inhuman" deeds against people that they thought were bad.
Hitler spoke Germany in to hating and turned the violent uprising into a act of heroism. It did not take long until Hitler had taken Germany in to war.
Ofcourse there were bad people, there always is no matter where you go. But most of the German soldiers were just normal men defending their homelands and families.
But because they were "Nazis" they were also branded as murderers and hunted down as mad men.
Quite same like that now the side that won the war is using it to write the books of history in their own good.
Turning certain deeds in to acts of heroism, turning some people in to innocent and some in to bad, even if they never were.
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Now just read the beginning of the description again.
We never change.
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The drawing is heavily inspired by the song "Pihtiote" by Apulanta.
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I've always thought this is such an important message. I really like the way you portrayed it in this drawing.
It's so easy to look back at the war thinking the German soldiers should have seen what was going on around them and that they were all bad people, when in reality they were just, as you said, normal men fighting for a country that had taught them this was the right thing to do. Then in later times we've just scooped soldiers on each side of the good/bad scale and left it that way without any further questions.
It's so easy to look back at the war thinking the German soldiers should have seen what was going on around them and that they were all bad people, when in reality they were just, as you said, normal men fighting for a country that had taught them this was the right thing to do. Then in later times we've just scooped soldiers on each side of the good/bad scale and left it that way without any further questions.