Comments by "Bob" (@Bob-nd2mr) on "Anders Puck Nielsen"
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Anders Puck Neilsen "understanding your enemy"
Christopher Browning ......"Ordinary Men"......true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942.
Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.
Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.
(sound familiar ?)
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The Democracies are confronting a fundemental TRUTH through 2 global "events" ....COVID in China & the invasion of UKRAINE...the TRUTH is : Being FREE to decide to go from A to B means that you are alive and not dead.,,,. A grain of sand is dead because it moves only because the wind and the rain moves it The sand has no "volition" but a human being is ALIVE because it can decide itself to go from A to B or C or where ever we decide to go Losing that FREEDOM is essentially dieing and becoming just a grain of sand. Here is how Solzhenitsyn puts it:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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@peterrumspringa9757 that was a brilliant reply to the confused toto who got lost in the detail.
Predictions are great but !.....not the point at all....Ukrainians are motivated to resist...but Russians ..for the most part ... just obey orders.
Draw your own conclusions.
Reference :
Christopher Browning ......"Ordinary Men".....as follows
true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942.
Browning argues that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged, working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the altering of moral norms to justify their actions.
Very quickly three groups emerged within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion whatsoever.
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