Stalin:
A hero or a villain?
I have been educated in the United States of America as a
cocktailed citizen of Canada and the US.
Being raised here, media has taught me to live in FEAR of
all that is not American. Whatever that means??? As a Canadian, I have been influenced to have
a “peaceful-we” way of being. Talk about
a tug of war on the mind of choice.
I recently had the pleasure of having a conversation with a
Russian, born and raised, yet living in Canada.
He shared with me this:
The first thing he shared is this: “Did you know Stalin died
owning only two suits and one pair of shoes? He owned nothing.”
This hooked my interest even more. My mind was entertaining
so many thoughts. “Wow that is amazing!”
“How is he any different then Mother Teresa or Gandhi?,” I
thought.
“He sacrificed his whole life for his country at any
cost.” I voiced in my head.
My friend (for the sake of this story will be called Jim)
Jim continued to share in his broken accent, “Stalin used slaves to build the
county, yet now the government is so rich and the people are so poor.’
My active mind kept running: “So the United States of
America, during the WW2, called war on Russia because they were bored?
They, those people over there, those foreign non-English Americans are doing
‘wrong’ to humanity. We need to go
‘save’ the people….. How arrogant!” I am
thinking.
Now that a few days have passed since Jim and I had our
great sharing time, I am still in shock of how stupid the United States of
America has been in the past. How are we any different the Stalin, Hitler or Kim Jong il? We are
not (in this context, yet we are so different in other): this county was built of slavery, stealing, suppressing, killing, drugs.
Just as much as it has been built on a vision of future prosperity of unity of
all nations and all races and all religion. We had the KKK for god sake.”
My question to you all is duality is a reality. And we all
have both. When you are hungry, which one do you choose to feed to quiet the
hunger?
Go deeper and see that this is all an Illusion. How do you want to live it?
Go deeper and see that this is all an Illusion. How do you want to live it?
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