Fear. Without it we wouldn’t be able to survive. Why? Because it’s the emotion that warns us about potential threats to our survival and urges us to protect ourselves from them. Let me give you an example to illustrate what I mean. Imagine that you’re walking outside in the dark and suddenly you see a snake jumping right in front of your feet. Immediately fear kicks in. You start sweating, your heart rate goes up, and your cortisol as well as adrenaline levels increase. The snake could be poisonous, so you immediately need to protect yourself from it. [Full article]

Real history rather than victors spin teach us that atrocities are committed regardless of occupiers’ nationality, their ideals or ethnicity.

However, there is proven to be just one ethnic-religious ideology that’s gratuitous and hideous depravities cause the crimes of all others to pale into relative insignificance.

Wherever they occupied the Soviet Bolsheviks routinely targeted and martyred the most innocent in the most depraved ways. “Vladimir Lenin gave orders to kill as many students as possible in several towns. Chekists (Secret Police) arrested every youth wearing a school cap. Students were singled out and casually killed because Lenin believed the coming Russian intellectuals would be a threat to the Soviet regime.” ~ Vladimir Soloukhin, In the Light of Day, Moscow 1992, p. 40. [Full article]