Not a single person on earth, once faced directly or indirectly with a war, can never remain the same. War, like a litmus test, will reveal hidden feelings and instincts, a real attitude towards people, towards someone else's personality, will reveal the level of development and stability of the psyche.
Instructions
Step 1
In wartime, the psyche of thousands and millions of people, one way or another involved in the war, is daily exposed to negative influences: the war a priori puts the human psyche in a borderline state. The rendered negative impact is not able to pass like a sneeze by itself. To get out of it, psychological rehabilitation is required. As a rule, it is rare, almost never provided. Thus, the disease is driven inside.
Step 2
Combined with massive, aggressive media propaganda, mostly aimed at marginal segments of the population, but affecting other strata of society that are not able to resist it, the borderline state extends to the level of total latent psychosis, which can negatively affect subsequent generations. There are many examples of this in history: from the state of German society after the First World War to the defeat of the Soviet Army in the Afghan war, combined with the defeat of the USSR in the Cold War. The defeated, as a rule, almost always strive to achieve revenge, thereby unleashing new wars.
Step 3
Regardless of where a person is during the war - on the front line, in the rear at the front line or deep in the rear, keen feelings and suppressed instincts awaken in him. And in the first place, of course, comes the instinct of self-preservation, which often comes into conflict with the moral postulates inculcated in peaceful life.
Step 4
However, the higher the level of mental development of a person, the more he is capable of self-sacrifice, the stronger his need to implement the moral principles inculcated by society. With universal pain, war tests people for strength and weakness, for humanity and atrocity, pulls out destructive or constructive instincts from the most hidden corners of the brain. It is impossible to predict what may emerge in an unforeseen situation from the depths of consciousness in each specific individual.
Step 5
The recent wars have provided many examples of this. For example, Arkady Babchenko, who served as a mercenary and became a military journalist after the last Chechen war, writes about this in his book: “… Why did your brothers, donated by the war, perish? Why did they kill people? Why did they shoot at good, justice, faith, love? Why did they crush the children? Bombed women? Why did the world need that girl with a pierced head, and next to her, covered in zinc from ammunition, was her brain? What for? But nobody tells. /… / Tell us how you died at the surrounded checkpoints in August 1996! Tell me how the boys' bodies twitch when they are hit by a bullet. Tell me! You survived only because we died - you owe us! They need to know! Nobody dies until he learns what war is!”- and the lines with blood go one by one, and the vodka is muffled by liters, and death and madness sit with you in an embrace and tweak the pen”.
Step 6
At present, in Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk and other cities of Ukraine - a country where hostilities imposed from outside are taking place - people are daily on the border of relations with each other, with the war and its consequences. Some of them, from ordinary, maybe not even the most moral citizens in peaceful life, became a glorified warrior: one of those who unites the nation. In someone, such as the blogger Olena Stepova, the war awakened the gift of writing. Many find personal moral satisfaction in volunteer work, including in hospitals: young, mature, elderly, but they are not indifferent every day, after the main service, they come to hospitals and wash the floors, wash the lying wounded, talk, feed, calm relatives near the intensive care units, support the wounded young and mature boys with their creativity, as does the Ukrainian artist Alexei Gorbunov.
Step 7
But there are others - those on the other side: after them, disfigured bodies without heads, legs and genitals are taken out of the pits. They happily pose against the backdrop of torn bodies and brains scattered on the asphalt. After them, not only scorched earth and disfigured bodies remain, but also crippled souls. But it is precisely their propaganda, engaged by those who, out of personal interests and mental deviations, unleashed a fratricidal massacre, call them heroes and millions believe in it - this is how the circle closes again: the moral is replaced by a depraved justification of evil. This means that problems are deliberately driven inside and future generations of the opposing sides are not immune from a new war.
Step 8
Therefore, despite the fact that almost a hundred years have passed, the conclusions of Academician Pavlov, made by him in the Nobel lecture "On the Russian Mind", have not ceased to be relevant: at the end he constantly lives in obedience to the truth, learns deep humility, for he knows that the truth is worth. Is it so with us? We do not have this, we have the opposite. I am referring directly to large examples. Take our Slavophiles. What did Russia do for culture at that time? What samples has she shown to the world? But people believed that Russia would rub the eyes of the rotten West. Where does this pride and confidence come from? And do you think that life has changed our views? Not at all! Don't we now read almost every day that we are the vanguard of humanity! And does this not testify to the extent to which we do not know reality, to what extent we live fantastically!"
