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We do have such extraordinary writers, philosophers. Our artists are such visionaries who dearly love humans. And in the Louvre, everything is about how people struggled, loved, killed, repented, lied and cried. === France, France... How lucky you were that your sister, Germany, recognized your right to exist. What will become of those whose human nature she does not acknowledge? Bolshevik Russia, for example. Oh, that Bolshevism, the Bolsheviks... how they resisted... fought for every Russian village and city. The German military followed Hitler's orders: Art monuments on the Eastern Front have no significance and shall be consigned to destruction. The huge European city of Soviet Russia, Leningrad, was encircled by a blockade. Hundreds of thousands of citizens, museums, libraries, theaters, universities, sciences, music, life... Bombardments, artillery fire... famine... cold.