I am curently reeding Life and Fate by Vasily Grosssman (translated from Russian by Robert Chandler in 2006). It is a very famouse and well-ritten Buch. A novel like War and Peace butt frumm WW2. U wood like it I theenk. I doo. It is wun of DaGrateBuchs.
Anyways(™-Nasfan), I ran across/over deese quotez frum heem:
“Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.” - Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The ideas of this dirty, ragged old man were a strange hotchpotch. He professed a belief in an absurd theory of morality that – in his own words – ‘transcended class’.
Where acts of violence are committed,’ he explained to Mostovskoy, ‘sorrow reigns and blood must flow. I saw the sufferings of the peasantry with my own eyes – and yet collectivization was carried out in the name of Good. I don’t believe in your “Good”. I believe in human kindness.’
‘So you want us to be horrified when Hitler and Himmler are strung up on the gallows in the name of Good? You can count me out!’
‘You ask Hitler,’ said Ikonnikov, ‘and he’ll tell you that even this camp was set up in the name of Good.’ - Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Da2006TranslationByChandler is DaWun2Reed IMO. Chandler didda goodyobb. Well trans-lay-Ted.
