We often assume that resistance to a regime such as Communism, Nazism or even the Islamic theologies is impossible .......
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| Sophie And Hans Scholl - White Rose Martyrs |
...... but its not, even if it looks impossible.
However
the price of resistance is very high - sometimes its because the victors, such as the
Ayatollahs of Iran, are infinitely worse than the previous regime and will use even more cruel methods of suppression, but
also of course, resistance can just be at a very high cost on the personal
level.
So I had for example, never heard of the 'White Rose group', who arose in Munich in 1943 to passively resist the Nazi German state ... they posted leaflets, and stencilled walls with slogans calling for the German people to resist ... eventually this brave little band were captured, and almost all were executed (two by guillotine) .... and rather strangely, one of the group, Alexander Schmorell, was made a saint by the Russian Orthodox church in 2012.
Still, whether their resistance was a futile gesture against a regime, who by then were losing the war, or a brave stance that had some meaning, its up to each of us to decide ..... one the few survivors, Lilo Furst-Ramdohr, said only this about the promotion of a near saint like status of this and similar small resistance groups, by the post war German society ..... "At the time, they'd have had us all executed".
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