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How To Find A Mate For Life
The most common misperception in all humanity today on the subject of marriage is that it is a religious invention. Nothing could be more wrong and unproven in a very literal sense. We can deliberately pretend that indelibles in purity of human courtship and marriage do not exist, and so behave like a pack of canines; we can Hollywood it like laughing Hyenas, but in the end the obvious always bites the blood from us.
Even evolutionists love the standard cartoon of a gruff, club-wielding caveman dragging a smiling female by the hair to his cave. But evolutionists seem oblivious to the natural order depicted in their own picture: We never see a gruff cave WOMAN dragging a smiling caveman. Nor do we see her with a cave-harem of meek, subdued cavemen. Such a depiction would be seen as ridiculous and not even comical simply because everyone just naturally knows perfectly well that such nonsense does not even fit our inborn human nature. It isn't who we are nor even what we physically look like.
Even the hippies made the startling (to them) discovery the hard way that communal living and mate swapping is a shortcut to the death of what they were supposed to be about to begin with—PEACE! When the hippies finally matured (at around 35 or 40 years old) they rejoined the rest of us, coupled off, got jobs, married, and raised children. Oddly, though, Hollywood missed that news and went about bathing the kids in the slop bucket. They grew up to vote that way.
Out of that bounded another generation who somehow got crossed up on how to identify the sexes, although even the obvious will knock you down! These all set their sights on Hollywood, the major networks, the halls of congress and, of course, the public schools. These also grew up to vote. With that it was only a short distance to arming women with hefty billyclubs and men with powderpuffs. All such fantasies blinded them to the real world where men who lose their dignity and honor shoot such confused victims, rape women by the multitudes, take them hostage and enslave them for life. Friends, there is a real difference between men and women and we'd better never forget it. That fact of life is not about to change while we have breath.
So why does a guy think his chosen gal is worth fighting for? Why will a woman fight like a tigress for her chosen guy? Where did we come up with such natures, anyhow? What, exactly, is in hormone juice that lights up eyes for the OPPOSITE sex?
Towering over these questions is a mountain of answer (one big answer). Here's a question for all of us: Why is the Book of Genesis the ONLY ancient record of human beginnings that matches up perfectly with who we actually and literally are today? It is truly the only mirror of the past we can look into and see our spitting image! It is telling us, "Honey, THIS is who you are, can't you see that?" The smart thing for us to do would be to simply accept it and get back to true nature.
So here's what all of this means: Love, marriage, and family predates Judaism, Christianity, and all the rest by thousands of years! We are all in the image of Genesis no matter what we try to make ourselves believe to the contrary, and nature itself always drives us back to it. If that were not true the human race would have drowned long ago in a tsunami of utter confusion. When this current age comes to the end of our freakish notions, out of that cloud of collapse will emerge those few who held onto the notion that Genesis fits us exactly as plainly described.
An extension of that logic would also tell us that if Genesis is us, we might also consider the whole volume which Genesis only begins. It gets far more specific before the last chapter. Plenty, in fact, to provide the criteria for the choosing of a mate for life. Here are a few things it makes indelibly clear for all humanity:
1. One must completely disengage the mind from any notion that the proposed marriage will be on a trial basis. Such a position has a name: Cowardice. You cannot fly a combat aircraft successfully with one hand on the ejection handle. If you blow the canopy the first time a bullet tears through your wing, you're better off on the ground where you belong. Marriage is not a trip to heaven, but a new arena of life where one continues to fight for victory.
2. Settle it in your mind now that nobody is perfect. Yes, one can think that guy or gal is perfect during courtship; in fact; a couple can date so long they think they know each other like a proverbial book, only to be convinced during that first week of marriage that they were reading the wrong book! Adjusting to the new life of "One flesh" (Gen.2:24) can be the biggest hurdle one has to leap since birth! Why? Because both persons MUST CHANGE to make the marriage work. It will be in deep water immediately if either party fails to change in order to become one with their mate. Change is an absolute requirement, and the quicker the change, the smoother the transition. By her created nature and purpose, the woman finds this easier than the man because the man's nature is to LEAD his family. However, the man must deliberately by design make his chosen woman part of his flesh by providing for what she needs in him. That is, consolation, security, assurance, affection, and other things a man was not accustomed to giving in his former aggressive single lifestyle. Sadly, on this point most marriages enter a battle of the sexes. Here is where they will make or break their marriage. Stubbornness in changing is usually the backbreaker—and heartbreaker. Unfortunately, in the majority of cases of marriage breakup, it is the man who refuses to change, either altogether or not enough. Disenchanted, the woman is finally driven to seek elsewhere for her natural needs, realized only in becoming one flesh with a man. There is no shortage.
3. One should seek diligently to understand this person one thinks to mate with for life. Unfortunately, the nature of courtship is the art of storefront advertising—best behavior, best manners, best perfume/lotion, best clothes, best places for a date, best everything. What's the shortcut to the real person? There is one surefire way to find out what it's really like in the store: Stop looking at the display and just walk into the store. Look behind counters, in closets, back rooms, etc. That's where the truth lies. What you see there is what you're going to get. The big sign in big letters on the front of the store reads "FAMILY!" That's right, simply observe carefully his or her family. THAT, friends, is who this person really is inside. Even if they are non-Christian but you are a Christian, you must remember: He or she was raised from the cradle by those parents. They are the ones who built the brain wrinkles in their gray matter to think and make value judgments. There before you is a glaring indication of lifestyle, values, philosophies, talents, spiritual fortitude, responsibilities, reliability, keeping confidence, eating habits, TV watching, courtesies, prayer habits, games they play, love or disdain for animals, education, and much more. Each trait is what is apt to be transferred into your new home unless they are dealt with by both of you. It pays to be very, very observant here. Look especially hard at the parents and their character traits. Be very mindful of what you are learning about this family, so when you do marry that guy or gal you will have your eyes open. Surprise is what you are trying to avoid.
There is much more to choosing a mate for life than these brief words if one is to invest an entire life with them, but I will include one last vital point:
4. The Genesis ORDER AND PRIORITIES must be embraced by both marriage partners simply because of the overwhelming physical evidence today of who we all really are. Choosing a mate in a lifetime commitment absolutely requires it. One can marry otherwise, but the odds are sky high that it will not be for life. Getting married for marriage sake just because youthful hormones are running at peak is saturated with the volatile ingredients of unhappiness for everyone, especially the offspring.
So here is what is meant by "Order and Priorities:" Friends, the Genesis record tells us with crystal clarity that the man was created first. He was made from the earth and then given the breath of life (Gen. 1:27,28: 2:19-24). So there stood the first man, fully equipped in every respect for the purposes before him, including the yet missing "Help meet," or companion and assistant suitable to the purpose. The man was to "dress" and to "keep" the Garden of Eden, for which God gave him the design of physical and mental strength to subdue and dominate what God created. Today man's design is still there unchanged from the Genesis model. As to the woman, we see that God did not create her from the dust, but from a piece of what He had already created—the man. So there she stood, designed in every respect to fit the man perfectly, including her beauty, her ability to conceive offspring, including the design to give them birth and suckle. So today there they both still stand exactly as described in the Genesis model in every way.
That design, with its order and priorities, is not obsolete. It is still who we are. It is still a requirement for lifelong marital happiness, regardless of our notions to the contrary. All of the balance of Scripture which treats on the subject of marriage is built on that one model. All the answers for marital happiness are there in detail, waiting for those who seek answers to what troubles their marriage. But most importantly to our subject, these are the most vital ingredients we must consider BEFORE marriage if we are going to find a mate for life. It all depends on just how serious we are about the subject of marital happiness. Hormones holding the reins of the brain, and not the opposite, is not being serious, but selfish.
We should make a final observation: Although many remain celibate for life, and although Scripture speaks of some who did, the Genesis model tells us plainly that we are literally DESIGNED for courting the opposite sex, marriage, and propagating children for future humanity. That being true, life without it will leave us unfulfilled before our Creator who made us thus. This is why the blossoming youth are driven inwardly to the opposite sex—to fulfill the mandate to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it" (Gen. 1:28). It therefore behooves us while we are young to think on this vital ingredient to happiness and fulfillment, to diligently seek it, to make it a priority, and so fulfill our Divine purpose. It is a mistake to passively wait for it, for like all things in life, they come through our God-given design of WILLFUL PURSUIT. And God designs, yes, but as the Genesis model sharply mandates, WE must fulfill.


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Baaz (Punjabi Movie) 3rd week Box Office Collection actor Babbu Maan. Baaz Box Office Collection
After a break of 2 years, Babbu Mann is back with an action drama written by Dheeraj Rattan and directed by Simerjit Singh (Chak Jawana and Daddy Cool Munde Fool fame). Movie has been produced by Bobby Garcha, Sukhjinder Singh Bahia & Khushwant Grewal with Babbu Mann producing the music and lyrics!
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Babu Maan's Baaz movie is loving by people day by day. Crowd looks excited to see this film specially among the punjabi's. As par review audience on first day of releasing was full of crowds to see the film. People love the the story of the film and the chemistry between the stars in the film.
Baaz is making good earnings. Great craze is among the audience in outsides of the multiplexes and theaters. Baaz is a punjabi love movie and love by the youngers because of its romantinv mixed action story. Also it is a familiy entertainer film.
On 1st day of opening Baaz make good profits and make good Box office collection. on second day also it makes collection of good money. On today 3rd day Baaz also make good money of Rs. 2 Crore but not so good as compare with previous earnings.
Babbu Maan's every films had some awesome job in the Box Office Collection nad also it all movie songs and recieved great response from the Viewrs. Babbu maan's Baaz also make good collection across the Worldwide.
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Taking care of your car can seem expensive, but with these 10 tips it doesn't have to be!
While we might think of our daily driving as "normal," the automotive industry defines the following as "severe" driving:
- Stop-and-go traffic
- Short commutes
- Dusty or salty environments
- Driving in extremely hot or cold weather
Chances are we do one or more of these things fairly often, if you drive a short distance in traffic during the winter it's possible to knock off all of them in a day. But if you take good care of your car, this kind of driving doesn't have to be so "severe". Try these 10 ways to take care of your car without emptying your wallet.
1. Check-ups
Just like you or your pet receive periodic check-ups, your car should get one too. You would never let little Fluffy go without her shots, right? Well, your car needs clean oil, filters, fluids, and frequent tire checks instead. Performing routine care to your car will lessen the likelihood that something will spring up on you, and your wallet.
Keep up on basic maintenance like your oil and filters. Important parts of your car's engine need them to stay lubricated, cleaned, and cooled. Frequently changing your oil and filter keep your engine clean on the inside. A clean engine is a happy engine.
Check your tires too, they affect your cars ride, handling, traction and overall safety. Regularly rotate your tires and check their pressure. Tip: mark your tires before you bring your car into the shop, then you will know for certain if they were rotated properly.
2. Control your lead foot
Driving fast may look exciting in the movies, but in real life it's a major drain on your budget. "You can think of it like this: Every 5 mph you drive above 50 mph is like paying an additional 20 cents per gallon of gas," explains Bo Saulsbury, senior researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Aggressive driving like speeding down the street or sudden stop and go acceleration is not only horrible for your car's engine and brakes, but it racks up your gas bill big time. You can save between 13 cents and 89 cents per gallon by driving a little gentler. Squirrels running across the road will also thank you as well.
3. Extended Warranty
There are both pros and cons in springing for the extended warranty, but getting it is like buying peace of mind which is nice to have in a world of constant surprises.
As vehicles get older, the more likely it gets that something major will break, fail, or need repair. If this happens, your warranty can pay for itself. You are probably looking to keep your car for at least a couple of years, wouldn't it be wonderful if it actually worked properly for that long?
It is also even possible to negotiate the price of your extended warranty. On average, you can save about $300 by haggling a bit, why not?
4. Get a mechanic you trust
Mechanics have a bad reputation for being exceedingly sketchy people. You go in the shop for an oil change and you walk out having spent hundreds of dollars because the mechanics scared you into thinking your car was in dire need of several mysterious repairs.
Every mechanic is obviously going to claim they are the best in an advertisement, so ask a friend, family member, or acquaintance you trust if they have a mechanic they would recommend. Sometimes companies pay for people to write positive feedback that they mask as honest reviews, so rely on word of mouth, not the internet, for authentic opinions about a mechanic's service.
5. Care for your car in the winter
If you live in an area that experiences regular snowfall in the winter, first off let me say I'm sorry. There is nothing worse than being forced to leave the house a half hour earlier in the morning because you must scrape a small igloo's worth of snow off your windshield.
Not only is winter the worst, its wreaks havoc on your car. Salt can lead to rust buildup on parts of your car that you can't see, which causes damages that we definitely notice; like when the rust eats away at the metal and your exhaust pipe falls off. Whoops. Hit the car wash every other week or so to keep salt buildup under control.
Also, contrary to popular belief, you should not let your vehicle run when its cold outside. Today's cars are built to move, and it does them no good when they sit still running for long periods of time. Instead, drive your car slowly for about 3 minutes, this will make it warm up faster and your engine will drive smoother.
6. Use YouTube for easy repairs
YouTube videos aren't just for talking dogs and quirky cats anymore, you can get some useful knowledge if you know where to look.
There are real-life mechanics who make videos on YouTube that show you everything from the best products, to how to change your tire, to how to swap an engine. You can find someone who has your exact car, and watch them as they make repairs that you would normally have to take your car into the shop for. The Humble Mechanic, ChrisFix, and Mighty Car Mods are some of the most popular and helpful (but definitely not the only) YouTubers who can show you how to save your money and care for your own car.
When you bring your car into the shop, you obviously are paying for parts needed to fix your car as well as the labor it takes for the mechanics to make the repair. Sometimes the parts can be much more costly than the labor.
Purchase parts on your own online, or salvage them from a junkyard or other used part vendor. If you buy the parts yourself you have much more say in how much you pay than if you just wait anxiously to see what your mechanic bill says.
8. Stop idling
Leaving your car to idle is bad for your car all year round, not just in the winter.
Although it can seem convenient to leave your vehicle running while you do a quick errand or wait outside for a friend to come to your car, you are actually wasting gas and money. You lose between a quarter and a half-gallon of fuel per hour when your car idles. If you idle for an average of 2 hours every week, you can say goodbye to about $140 a year.
Turn your car off when you are not driving, it's better for your vehicle and you won't be throwing your money out the window.
9. Keep the outside of your car clean
Get more money for your car tomorrow, by giving it a little wash and wax today. Washing your car makes it look nice and shiny and protects the value by reducing the buildup of things like dirt, damaging chemicals, road salt, tree sap or those annoying, impossible-to-remove berries that stick to your car and look delicious but you can't eat.
Take it a step further and get a wax to protect your car even more. It might be a little more expensive, but it will stay cleaner longer, so you won't have to worry about cleaning it as much.
10. Car seat covers
Your car interior goes through a lot of natural wear and tear as your use it, and this can leave the inside looking like a Rorschach test we didn't know happened. You know the mysterious splotches, smears, coffee stains and the burn hole from your friend's friend who smoked in the backseat even though you told them not to.
Give your car a makeover and protect it at the same time with car seat covers. Cover just the front two seats of the entire car depending on which parts you use the most. You can get covers that match the already existing interior of your car, or you can get creative with a funky design.
You and your car are in this for the long haul, so it deserves some TLC every now and then. Luckily with these tips it's easy to care for your car without breaking the bank!


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Best Ham Sandwich Ever
24 small Hawaiian sweet rolls
1 1/2 lbs. shaved ham (not honey ham)
12 slices of cheese (any kind)
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon poppy seeds (optional)
Preheat oven to 375° F.
Use two 9 x 13 pans. Place bottom only of 12 rolls in each pan. Place two or more slices of ham on roll bottoms. Cut cheese slices into four parts. Place two slices on ham. Now put roll top on.
In saucepan, mix the remaining ingredients and cook until butter is melted. Brush the sauce on top of the rolls. Cover with foil. Let sit in refrigerator for 1 hour or overnight.
Bake for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Note: Sometimes I use a mix of cheeses, like Swiss and cheddar or mozzarella and cheddar or Monterey Jack.
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News Weekly, June 28, 2003
March 5 2003 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest mass-murderers of all time - the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.Probably as many Soviet people were killed during his reign of terror as perished during World War II at the hands of the Nazis. Yet many today still fail to grasp the magnitude of his crimes against humanity.Many Russians in fact look back nostalgically to the Stalin era. In March this year, 53 per cent of Russians polled by the All-Russia Centre for the Study of Public Opinion, viewed Stalin's role in history as "absolutely positive" or "more positive than negative".In the West, the BBC has recently created an uproar with its television drama, Cambridge Spies, about traitors Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, who, during the 1930s and '40s, used their privileged positions in the British establishment to betray secrets to Moscow.The series - currently screening on ABC television - depicts the young men's devotion to Soviet Communism as an idealistic and understandable response to the plight of the unemployed and the rise of Fascism in Europe before the war.Downplayed in all this, however, is the fact that, even in the 1930s, there was ample evidence available of Stalin's repressive policies.Fellow-travellers who turned a blind eye to the reality of Soviet Communism were not misguided idealists, but were as morally culpable as Nazi sympathisers who whitewashed Hitler.If certain Russians and BBC producers, in this anniversary year of Stalin's death, are so forgetful of a major and tragic chapter of European history, it is perhaps a fitting time to set the record straight and recapitulate the human cost of Stalin's terror. Certainly, his millions of innocent victims deserve no less.Collectivisation One of the most bloodthirsty phases of Stalin's career began in the late 1920s after he had successfully isolated his political rivals and emerged as undisputed master of the Soviet Union.He used coercion and terror to mobilise the working population to fulfill his grandiose five-year plans for industrialising the economically backward USSR.Irish playwright and Fabian socialist, George Bernard Shaw, wrote approvingly of Stalin's methods:"Every Russian knows that if he will not make his life a paying enterprise for his country ... an agent of the OGPU [Soviet secret police] will take him by the shoulder and will conduct him to the cellar of this famous department and he will simply stop living."Stalin pursued an especially uncompromising policy towards the Soviet peasantry. He aimed at nothing less than depriving peasants of their land, herding them into state-run collective farms, and empowering the state to seize all their agricultural produce.Standing in the way of this wholesale expropriation, however, were millions of peasant smallholders called kulaks. Stalin's drastic solution was to call for the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".The reign of terror which descended on the Soviet countryside was, in the words of the great Polish scholar of Marxism, Leszek Kolakowski, "Probably the most massive warlike operation ever conducted by a state against its own citizens".Special OGPU military units, armed with tanks and machine-guns, surrounded villages and fired indiscriminately into crowds of peasants. Mass arrests and executions followed.Millions who escaped death in this way were rounded up, bundled into cattle trucks and deported to the notorious Gulag slave labour camps in Siberia or the Arctic where many perished.In collectivising agriculture, Stalin met particular fierce resistance from Ukrainians, whose large population and sense of nationhood, he feared, could also prove a threat to Moscow's rule.During 1932-33 Stalin used unprecedented means to bring Ukraine to heel. He had all of Ukraine's grain confiscated and her borders sealed so that no person could leave and no food could enter the country.In what amounted to the first deliberately man-made famine in history, Stalin turned Ukraine - once the great breadbasket of Europe - into a vast wasteland. Millions died.The writer Arthur Koestler was visiting Ukraine at the time. He described seeing from his train starving children who "looked like embryos out of alcohol bottles ... the stations were lined with begging peasants with swollen hands and feet, the women holding up to the carriage windows horrible infants with enormous wobbling heads, stick-like limbs and swollen, pointed bellies."Years later, when discussing farm collectivisation with Winston Churchill in Moscow in August 1942, Stalin coolly admitted that the four-year ordeal of carrying through this policy had cost more Soviet lives and been more stressful to him than the first year of Hitler's onslaught against the USSR.Kirov's murder and the purgesAfter the collectivisation-terror, Stalin sought to eliminate from the upper echelons of Soviet society anybody who could conceivably pose a threat to his rule.In late 1934 he clandestinely arranged to have his main potential rival, Sergei Kirov - the popular secretary of the Leningrad Communist Party - assassinated. To conceal his own culpability, Stalin had the assassins themselves killed and then blamed others for the Kirov murder.He cleverly turned the resulting political turmoil to his advantage by unleashing a political witch-hunt directed against Communist Party members who had been prominent during the time of his predecessor, Lenin.Mass arrests followed. Once mighty revolutionaries were broken by months of interrogation, torture and threats to their families. When they were ready to confess to concocted criminal charges, they were brought before especially convened show-trials in Moscow.There, in front of astonished foreign journalists and observers, they made self-abasing confessions that they had been lifelong traitors and agents of foreign powers.At the end of such a trial, the Soviet chief state prosecutor Andrei Vyshinski would cry: "I demand that mad dogs be shot - every one of them!", before the defendants were taken away to their deaths.Stalin's Purges spread to every level of Soviet society. Citizens were encouraged to denounce neighbours and workmates as spies or saboteurs. Regional police chiefs frantically vied with each other to fulfill or over-fulfill their arrest quotas of alleged "enemies of the people" - or else faced being shot themselves.Population lossesThe Kremlin went to great lengths to cover up the magnitude of Soviet population losses resulting from Stalin's reign of terror in the 1930s. It suppressed the results of the 1937 census because, according to an official statement, it contained "grave mistakes owing to the activities of enemies of the people". The real reason, of course, was that the census would have revealed a massive population deficit. So rather than disclose the truth, the Soviet government had the entire census board staff shot as spies.A "revised" census was published in 1939 - this time, with grossly inflated population figures. But even this revealed that roughly 10 per cent of the Soviet population was statistically missing, i.e., some 15 million victims of Stalin's reign of terror.World War IITerrible though the sufferings of the 1930s were, they have tended to be eclipsed in popular perception by the ordeal the Soviet Union suffered after the German invasion in 1941. As the Western democracies owed their very survival to the enormous sacrifices sustained by the Soviet population in resisting the German onslaught, any criticism of Stalin since the war has tended to be muted.But if the Soviet people eventually defeated Hitler, it was small thanks to Stalin who failed to prepare his country's defences adequately. During 1939-41, of course, Stalin was Hitler's ally and helped sustain the Nazi war machine by shipping vast quantities of Soviet grain, oil and other strategic materials to the Third Reich.In addition, Stalin encouraged the Communist parties in the West to sabotage the Allied war effort. In the East, Stalin collaborated with Hitler in dismembering Poland, then invaded the Baltic States and attacked Finland.When Hitler turned on his erstwhile Soviet ally, launching Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941, the USSR was woefully unprepared. The Soviet military leadership had been severely incapacitated by the Purges. In 1937, Stalin had sentenced to death thousands of experienced military officers, including the Supreme Commander of the Red Army, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky.During its life and death struggle with Hitlerism, the Soviet Union might have benefited from the help of the Polish army, but during the spring of 1940 Stalin had treacherously ordered the murder of 15,000 Polish army officers at Katyn Forest near Smolensk and other killing sites (a crime which he later blamed on the Germans).As for Soviet civilians, Stalin's rural terror of the 1930s had sown the seeds of fierce hatred among Soviet peasants towards Communist rule. When the Germans invaded, many peasants prematurely hailed them as liberators, thus leading to a rapid collapse of Soviet resistance.Hitler, of course, had no intention of winning the hearts and minds of eastern Slavs. Nazi racial doctrine held them to be untermensch (subhuman). The Nazis treated their despised subject populations as fit only for enslavement or extermination. The Soviet people, whatever their misgivings about their own country's régime, turned against their new oppressors and began waging partisan warfare.Stalin's secret war Estimates of Soviet casualties during the so-called Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 have varied according to political fashion. In 1947, the Soviets liked to boast that their victory had been won with "the least possible losses", and usually gave a figure of only seven million war dead. But, during the late 1950s, the Soviet leadership saw that a higher figure might be advantageous for propaganda purposes. The now familiar figure of "20 million Russian war dead" did not actually emerge until the 1960s, during Khrushchev's time.In fact, the true number of Soviet people killed during the war years may well have been in excess of 20 million, but they were certainly not all Russian, and not all were killed as a result of the Nazi invasion.Throughout the war the terrible death toll among the Gulag slave labour camp population continued unabated. Roy Medvedev, a famous independent Russian historian and Marxist-Leninist, has compared Gulag inmate numbers and deaths with actual troop casualties during the first phase of the war:"The average number of prisoners in the Soviet Union in 1941-1942 was approximately equal to the number of soldiers on active duty in the army. At that time the loss of people [in labour camps and at the front] was also approximately equal."Nick Eberstadt of the Harvard Centre for Population Studies has observed: "The USSR fought a two-front campaign in World War II. The first was against the invaders; the second was against its own citizenry."Stalin waged this second war because he feared the animosity of his own people - so much so, in fact, that he was prepared to divert desperately-needed troops from the war front to deal with suspected enemies on the home front.Stalin was particularly apprehensive that many non-Russian nationalities of the USSR might harbour pro-German sympathies, so he interrupted his war effort to unleash a campaign of ethnic cleansing against suspected populations.Between 1941 and 1944, while Hitler was busy transporting Jews to the death-camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, Stalin uprooted 1,600,000 people from among the Crimean Tartars, Volga Germans and several Caucasian republics, including Chechnya.He deported in cattle-trucks the entire populations of these small nations to eastern Siberia and the Sino-Soviet frontier. During the first 18 months, approximately one-third of them perished.Other citizens who received no mercy were Soviet prisoners who survived internment by the Germans. During the war the Wehrmacht had captured about five million Soviet prisoners, of whom about 80 per cent died in captivity. The million or so survivors subsequently repatriated to the USSR, instead of being welcomed back at the war's end, were declared traitors to the socialist motherland.On arrival, thousands were shot outright, whilst practically all the remainder were banished to slave labour camps where many more perished. As Professor Norman Davies has said: "It is a nice question whether these men, who had defied Hitler only to be killed by their own side, can properly be counted among the victims of the struggle against Fascism."For many people in the former USSR, war did not end in 1945. Partisan warfare continued for some years after the war as people of Ukraine and the Baltic States resisted attempts by the Soviet Red Army and secret police to re-impose Communist tyranny on their nations.Non-Russian casualtiesAfter the so-called Great Patriotic War of 1941-45, Soviet propaganda glorified specifically "Russian" sacrifices, but belittled the terrible human and material losses sustained by the non-Russian nations of the former USSR, notably Belarus and Ukraine.Yet even Soviet sources confirmed in 1987 that, although wartime military losses were mainly Russian, the civilian losses were overwhelmingly non-Russian. The Wehrmacht never occupied any substantial region of Russia for very long, but it overran and devastated Belarus and, above all, Ukraine whose wartime losses amounted to 5-6 million dead. (The Independent, December 29, 1987).American foreign correspondent Edgar Snow who visited the USSR in 1945 said that the "whole titanic struggle, which some are apt to dismiss as 'the Russian glory', has in all truth and in many costly ways been first of all a Ukrainian war ... No single European country has suffered deeper wounds to its cities, its industry, its farmlands and its humanity." (Saturday Evening Post, January 27, 1945). Yet, as Norman Davies has commented:"Thanks to persistent wartime prejudices, many British and Americans still harbor the illusion that most Ukrainians spent the war either as auxiliaries in the concentration camps or in the Waffen-SS Galizien [but] the Waffen-SS recruited three times as many Dutchmen as Ukrainians." (New York Review of Books, June 9, 1994).Of Soviet population losses during the 1941-45 Great Patriotic War, at most two-thirds were victims of Hitler's invasion; the rest were victims of Stalin's secret war against his own people.Stalin's régime, then, whether in peace or war, was as deadly an enemy to the Soviet population as any external invader.Russian author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alexander Solzhenitsyn - himself an inmate of Stalin's Gulag for many years - has regretted the fact that Stalin's record of slaughter and terror has never captured the public imagination in the way that Nazi atrocities have. "[Hitler's] murder camps have made him famous," says Solzhenitsyn, "whereas no one has any interest in ours at all."Stalinism, unfortunately, is not completely dead and buried if today it can still win a sizeable following among Russians and a sympathetic portrayal by British television producers.In this special anniversary year, people in the East and West might do well to reflect on history and particularly on the warning words of the poet Yevtushenko to Soviet leaders 50 years ago on the death of Stalin:So I ask our governmentTo doubleTo trebleThe guardOver this tomb.
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We love Santa and his elves as much as anyone, but we also know there is more to Christmas than presents and Christmas trees. Christmas is a time to teach children why Christmas is called the season of giving, even among people who don't practice Christianity. Here are a few ideas to try in your family to teach young kids about the real spirit of Christmas.
Volunteer time or items to a local charity.
Most kids don't realize that there are kids in their own city who are less fortunate than they are until someone points it out to them. Take some time to talk about what it means to give, and look for ways you can help within your community. Most churches and schools can set your family up as a Secret-Santa family to help another family in your community.
Also, many retailers have giving trees, in which shoppers can choose one or many items to purchase to donate to someone in need. Older kids may even consider volunteering at a food bank.
Let them help you schedule your time.
The Christmas season should be focused on spending time with people you love, so let your kids help you schedule your family time. Talk about the traditions they love, and make sure to fit those in—even if it means taking other things off the agenda. Take some time to send Christmas cards to distant family members, or even better, to place a phone call to relatives you haven't seen in awhile.
Come up with new traditions.
There's a good chance that your kids have some ideas for new traditions that you haven't thought of yet. Between movies and friends, they have had a chance to see families engaging in different ways from what you might be used to around the holidays. You may be surprised by the creative ideas your kids come up with.
If the kids don't have any ideas for new traditions, be ready to suggest some yourself, like baking cookies for a local neighbor, or caroling through the neighborhood. Be open to new ideas for family traditions, especially if they get your kids excited about spending time with loved ones or doing something in the spirit of giving.
The spirit of Christmas is contagious, so take some time this year to help your kids understand what they can do to help those in need. Spend time reconnecting as a family, whether it's within your household or by reaching out to relatives you haven't seen in awhile. Your kids will learn from your example and will grow up understanding Christmas as a season of giving and sharing—and not just receiving.