My parents lived through the Hunger Winter in Holland. My father lived on a farm and they fed the city people who would walk for a day just to find something to feed their families.My grandparents never turned a single person away, and gave them potatoes and sandwiches with butter and cheese to bring home to their families - another day's walk home.
They have hundreds of letters from the people they fed, many became life long friends.
My mother's family lived in the city and went hungry, but my grandfather bought milk on the black market and so they survived. They had meat once per week, otherwise it was potatoes and other things they could grow in their backyard.
So, I agree with you, although mentally it is very difficult to know your own government wants you a slave and/or dead, and even my mother says that the lockdowns were mentally harder than living as kid during the war because at least then they knew they could go to school, see their friends, gather together, etc.
It's the hunger winter in the Netherlands that I was referring to, actually.
What we have been subjected to the last 2 years is a psychological war. In some ways, it has been far more traumatic or difficult. And there is no doubt it has been devastating. But we still need perspective. Human history has been traumatic for more people than not.
My parents lived through the Hunger Winter in Holland. My father lived on a farm and they fed the city people who would walk for a day just to find something to feed their families.My grandparents never turned a single person away, and gave them potatoes and sandwiches with butter and cheese to bring home to their families - another day's walk home.
They have hundreds of letters from the people they fed, many became life long friends.
My mother's family lived in the city and went hungry, but my grandfather bought milk on the black market and so they survived. They had meat once per week, otherwise it was potatoes and other things they could grow in their backyard.
So, I agree with you, although mentally it is very difficult to know your own government wants you a slave and/or dead, and even my mother says that the lockdowns were mentally harder than living as kid during the war because at least then they knew they could go to school, see their friends, gather together, etc.
It's the hunger winter in the Netherlands that I was referring to, actually.
What we have been subjected to the last 2 years is a psychological war. In some ways, it has been far more traumatic or difficult. And there is no doubt it has been devastating. But we still need perspective. Human history has been traumatic for more people than not.
Absolutely