Дезертир

[pilottttt]

(Боурдмен Робинсон, карикатура времён Первой Мировой войны)

Comments

[cmcmck]

And doesn't this just speak volumes?

[gwendraith]

It's a sobering cartoon! These days many developed and educated countries don't shoot dissidents (or pacifists and conscientious objectors) but sadly it does still happen.

[dewline]

The current "management" in our host's home country has no use for such enlightenment. Never did, really, given their history.

[pilottttt]

I have always been surprised how war can get along with Christian values in the same mind.

[pilottttt]

However, in February 1917, the soldiers, who were forced to go to war in the same way, decided that it would be easier to overthrow the monarch.

[pilottttt]

By the way, not everyone was stopped by this.

[cmcmck]

By the end of that war, a number of monarchies had ceased to exist.