#leo tolstoi

[galerymod]

What is wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority is in favour of it.

To judge a country, one must see its prisons from the inside.

Leo Tolstoi

the right way to end war is to stop making war

Leo Tolstoi

The Russians believe that they are a cultural people, but that is a misunderstanding of their own self-image.

Otherwise, they would have read their great authors like Tolstoy.

He still hangs in Russian schools, but as an empty picture frame without the dangerous content he stood for. Dangerous for dictatorships and oppressors.

The Russian people never emancipated themselves from his rules, there was no enlightenment in Russia, one is ashamed when it gets dark. That was the case under all dictatorships that have ever ruled in Russia.

As Tolstoy wrote: and the people are silent.

The Russian people count themselves as belonging to the tribe of the Russians and are thus first of all tribal, that is, we are Russians and all others are not Russians and thus enemies. It sounds simple and it is. The state ensures that this circle is not interrupted.

In kindergartens, schools and universities and with the help of the Orthodox Church, the non-independent citizen is shaped, with the army providing the finishing touches. Tolstoy already criticised this in the days of the tsars and described people as slaves of the system in the truest sense.

We are not talking about propaganda in the media and the unfree press, which is the propaganda cloud that any reasonable person could escape if they wanted to.

No, we are talking about the willing people who are already living under a dictatorship again.

At first, the state only gave jobs and didn't want anything, but then it started demanding loyalty and statements. That started with the illegal occupation of Crimea and suddenly state employees were obliged to take a stand. Pro occupation.

At some point, almost all Russian citizens were in line with the Kremlin.

Those who were not in line were now ruthlessly persecuted, imprisoned and killed. Not by just anyone, but by Russians killing Russians in the name of the Kremlin.

To not attract attention? To just go along, without any restrictions or moral principles.

And the Russian people remain silent!

Then a historical event had to occur to confirm the greatness of the man who had made them all his lackeys.

Something gigantic, and what could be more obvious than to repeat the greatest event in history, the victory of the Russian people over Nazi Germany.

But how?

The Russian people are silent, but they are not completely stupid and know that there are no Nazis in the West, so they cannot attack the West. Besides, the risk would be too great.

So you create an enemy who is profoundly evil, Nazis at their very finest, created by desire and supported by propaganda.

The Nazis in Ukraine were the perfect opportunity to go down in history as a great man in the Kremlin.

But what once worked because the aggressor invaded Russia looks very different when you are the aggressor yourself.

The whole of Ukraine is almost completely bombed, had Hitler not used the scorched earth system to hit the civilian population in order to bring Russia to its knees.

And now, even if the Russian people remain silent, the dead sons who fall in the unspoken war have their effect.

Every dead Russian soldier has a family, so all the propaganda cannot make it seem that his death was pointless. A death for destroying dirt. Not to mention the genetic weakening of the Russian gene pool: every dead soldier does not make any new Russians.

The people are silent and grieving, but perhaps one day they will wake up, read Tolstoy and understand him.

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Then the time will have come when the Russian people will become aware of their great culture again and emancipate themselves from all their silence.

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Those who carry out inhumane acts in the name of authority can claim after the evil has fallen that it was only orders.

[marichromatic]

Anna Karenina is such a page turner, and the way it portrays the feelings of the characters is masterfully done, Tolstoi is so good at expressing them without inherently naming them. It's never "she felt despair" it is "The whole ball, the whole world, everything seemed lost in fog in Kitty's soul."

All of these characters feel so much. And you're right there, peering into their very souls.

[wmlz]

„Es sind immer die einfachsten Ideen, die außergewöhnliche Erfolge haben.“

Leo Tolstoi

[mistofstars]

My oh my, War and Peace has so many fantastic themes besides the romantic elements (which, imho, don't play the major part).

It's about hope, belief, empathy, how easily you can be corrupted when you are around the wrong kind of people, morals, peace of course and its absence, forgiveness, pride, family...

The romance seems like a side quest tbh 😂

[arcimboldisworld]

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Eternity Playhouse Sydney 23.08.2023

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 - Eternity Playhouse Sydney 23.08.2023 #electropopopera #musical #warandpeace #leotolstoi #entdeckung #thegreatcomet #australien

Es ist schon einige Jahre her, seit “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” seine Off-Broadway-Premiere im Jahr 2012 erlebte und 2016 für ein Jahr an den Broadway ging. Nun also eine kleine und sehr feine Produktion in hervorragender Besetzung am Eternity Playhouse in Sydney, es ist die australische Erstaufführung dieses Werkes.. Continue reading Untitled

[wolf97]

"While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned, not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity. And now during these last three weeks of the march he had learned still another new, consolatory truth-that there is nothing in the world that is terrible. He had learned that, as there is no condition in which man can be happy and entirely free, so there is no condition in which he need be unhappy and not free. He learned that suffering and freedom have their limits and that those limits are very near together, that the person in a bed of roses with one crumpled petal suffered as keenly as he now, sleeping on the bare damp earth with one side growing chilled while the other was warming, and that when he had put on tight dancing shoes he had suffered just as he did now when he walked with bare feet that were covered with sores-his footgear having long since fallen to pieces. He discovered that when he had married his wife of his own free will as it had seemed to him- he had been no more free than now when they locked him up at night in a stable. Of all that he himself subsequently termed his sufferings, but which at the time he scarcely felt, the worst was the state of his bare, rubbed, and scab-covered feet. (The horseflesh was appetising and nourishing, the saltpetre flavour of the gunpowder they used instead of salt was even pleasant; there was no great cold, it was always warm walking in the daytime, and at night there were the camp-fires; the lice that devoured him warmed his body.)"

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

[justwatchmyeyes]

Jeder denkt daran, die Welt zu verändern, aber niemand denkt daran, sich selbst zu verändern.

Leo Tolstoi

[shisasan]

26 September, 1880 Leo Tolstoy in his letter to Nikolai Strakhov

[metamorphesque]

"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy (translated by Constance Garnett)

[fatherdmitri]

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[merildae]

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[petiteappetite]

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[unleashed-imagination]

Rest, nature, books, music - such is my idea of happiness.

— Leo Tolstoy

[malusokay]

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[wolf97]

"And lastly, the final departure of the great Emperor from his heroic army is presented to us by the historians as something great and characteristic of genius Even that final running away, described in ordinary language as the lowest depth of baseness which every child is taught to be ashamed of-even that act finds justification in the historians' language.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness'. 'Greatness, it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

C'est grand" say the historians, and there no longer exists either good or evil, bar only grand and 'not grand. Grand is good, not grand is bad. Grand is the characteristic, in their conception, of some special animals called 'heroes'. And Napoleon escaping home in a warm fur coat and leaving to perish those who were not merely his comrades but were (in his opinion) men he had brought there, feels que c'est grand and his soul is tranquil

Du sublime (he saw something sublime in himself) 'au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pr said he. And the whole world for fifty years has been repeating: 'Sublime! Grand Napoléon le Grand Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas. And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness For us, with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable. And there is no greatness there where simplicity, goodness, and truth are absent."

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace