"On Christmas Day, 1914, in the first year of World War I, German, British and French soldiers disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front. German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared rations, played football, even roasted some pigs. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before.
(...) Generals on both sides declared this spontaneous peacemaking to be treasonous and subject to court martial. By March, 1915 the fraternization movement had been eradicated and the killing machine put back in full operation. By the time of the armistice in 1918, fifteen million people would be slaughtered."
E esta foi a guerra que ia "acabar com todas as guerras" e "fazer o mundo mais seguro" e "para a democracia". Resultado: as republicas totalitárias surgiram por todo o lado apenas adiando um novo confronto, as escolhas da segunda guerra fizeram de Estaline um aliado - o que acabou por expandir e internacionalizar o comunismo, e depois a guerra fria quase acabou com a humanidade.
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