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ONE SINGLE REALITY, ENDLESS PERSPECTIVES
ONE SINGLE REALITY, ENDLESS PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): Cristian-Marian Pârâială
Subject(s): Cultural history, History of ideas, Recent History (1900 till today), History of Communism
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: perspective; reality; ideology; communist regime; Stalin;

Summary/Abstract: This world is dominated by one single reality, but everybody believes in his own view about existence. This lack of conformity lead, through the years, to many conflicts between peoples. Everybody undertook for their own points of view and when nobody retracted their conception, they began major encounters, considerable fights, significant struggles, great wars, in orders to decide which is the correct point of view about the world, which values are more important, which values are less important, which god is real, which one is an invention and so on and so forth. Throughout the centuries, only the strongest people decided which idea is a valuable conception and which idea is a horrible misconception. The weak always conform themselves to the respective authority, mavericks being usually, marginalized, expelled from the society, or even imprisoned and tortured to change their minds, to achieve the ,,right beliefs". In the 19th century, an impressive number of dictators came in power in one of the most important countries of Europe. Each one compelled their own rules, their own ideology and whoever tried to question their methods ended up in prison, being forced to correspond with the rules of the respective regime. In Nazi Germany, the authority decided that being a Jew is a crime. In Soviet Russia, the authority decided that being a bourgeois or kulak is a crime. Moreover, for the Nazi regime, the communist ideologies were utterly deficient, dissatisfactory and unacceptable. Also, for the Soviet regime, the Nazi ideologies were completely wrong, unfair, unjust and, also, unacceptable. Each and every one of them tried to inflict their own regime, their own rules, their own points of view. The end of the Second World War also marked the end of the Nazi regime, the Nazi ideology, the Nazi perspective about the perfect society. Unfortunately, the end of the same war marked the beginning of the communist regime, communist ideology and communist perspective about the perfect society in Eastern Europe. Countries like Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia were forced to adopt the Soviet system, the Soviet ideology, even the Soviet life style (characterized by poverty, famine and fear). Using their brainwashing techniques, the communists manipulated those societies (with different languages, rules and beliefs) to embrace the Marxist- Leninist ideology. Using the manipulation, they corrupted all the books, all the newspapers, all the textbooks in order to describe the communist ideology as the greatest ideology to have ever existed. Rewriting history was the key to introduce the new reality, but Stalin's henchmen couldn't have instituted the new regime in those countries without restraint and enforcement. Because of the violent and brutal methods used by communist tormentors, many dissidents had come to embrace the new regime. In conclusion, the reality is still unknown by the humanity. Every person has his own ideas and beliefs about the reality, but sometimes people might be forced to forswore them, being engaged to new ones which align with the new power or authority.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 708-717
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian
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