This is a Russian cartoon from almost a hundred years ago (1917):
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Some Things Don’t Change
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Is the object lesson that humans never learn? These could have been drawn anytime throughout human history.
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I don’t know, I don’t even recognize 2 of the conflicts in the cartoon. Armenians and Turks are better known but that’s all in the past, too.
The point seems to be that everything changes except internal psychological problems of human beings.
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Germans in Belgium refers to the First World War. Bulgarians in Serbia refers to the Second Balkan War in 1913.
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Or only Russians kill Russians. The Russian cartoon looks like a bar brawl that turned lethal(I can’t tell whether the one guy is holding a pitchfork or a bayonet), whereas the other cartoons are soldiers killing civilians.
I see Germans in Belgium in this time period and I think, “Terrible people killing terrible people.”
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And the cartoon is scarily prescient, too. Just a little later, Russians will get embroiled into a long and bloody civil war that will then transform into a civil genocide.
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Armenians and Turks are better known but that’s all in the past, too.
Are you sure of this? I have a colleague of Armenian descent who is afraid to attend mathematics conferences in Turkey.
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In many countries of the world, different ethnic groups hold physical, violent grudges for centuries. Here in America, the aggrieved minorities just sulk and “play victim” forever.
Example: Look at all the current whining on the Internet about the name of tomorrow’s traditional American holiday, “Columbus Day.”
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It”s all s0 sad. And humans will not stop.
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