In battle in Shirokino died fighter battalion "Donbass" Ivan the Centurion, a resident of Lutsk. April 10, on Facebook he wrote: "Monitoring of social networks shows that many Ukrainians are not ready for war. Neither morally nor mentally, nor logically. To convey information now - to save someone's life or at least the psyche. Well, or to encourage them to make important decisions. Anyway - everything on the shelves. Read. I think..."

NO HEROICS

War is blood, death, severed hands, feet, and head. War is crippled destinies. The war that burned the city. Until then, while in your head the war will be something beautiful and heroic, you are not ready for war. War is a foul odor, fumes, urine and sweat, but not pretentious monologues and beautiful things.

Was always against the Soviet film about World war II. Beautiful, combed (sometimes beautifully smeared with soot) the right people, took an unequivocal right decisions. Everything looked like in classic pieces: if a hero is good ("OUR"), he correctly speaks, looks good, right, talks and beautiful dies at the end. If a character is bad ("German"), it is killing, burning, robbing, and not considered any other point of view.

EVERYTHING in life is NOT. In the life of the poor soldiers are on both sides, good soldiers are on both sides, each convinced that he is right. Our soldiers are also not saints, our shells can also get civilian installation, our soldiers are not all "cyborgs". They sometimes can't put two words together, sometimes drink, sometimes encroach on other people. And this is because the army will not be selected on the principle of "Saint-not a Saint", and urge those who can complete the task. And the task of the soldier is simple - to fight.

Please accept it as a fact.

Heroism, achievement, noble deeds and so on - the question of IDEOLOGY. And the ideology in any war are secondary. Ideology is a tool to motivate the soldiers and the people. And certainly not the root cause. Because why delude yourself that in REAL LIFE people are guided by ideology.

NO MERCY

During hostilities,if your house is on the firing line,or in the affected area,the chances are that it will not. If you will be in your home, it may not be you - it's a fact. The enemy will not be considered with your point of view. And your tears over his belongings don't care about how your not concerned with his cans of tomatoes, your cat, your picture above the bed that you once gave mom. They don't care all that valuable to you. Not because they are bastards,but because there are no wars that take into account your belongings. To think and to suffer it. The war has come to your town - either leave, or take up arms or participate in any protection available to you in a way. All elementary simple. Defective projectile will not spare you. Random shard will take care of you. To sit and wait for you with the house razed to the ground is stupid and pointless. If, after the shelling of residential areas of Mariupol and Kramatorsk you didn't realize, then, alas. Who do you blame?

TURN OFF THE EMOTIONS
Plan your life now. While panic is not jammed into your brain. Do you want to leave? If you want, then where? If you don't, where will you go? If it works, then what will you do next? In any case - the extra emotion you don't need. All this rhetoric from the "Oh my God! the world has collapsed!" it won't do you any solutions, nor security. Emotions: panic, hatred, hysteria - no way will improve your position. They can't influence the situation. Emotions cause people to make a fuss and make illogical decisions.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND, FINALLY

It is not about the support of prevailing on both sides of idiocy. Need to decide not with the details and priorities. Remove the doubt, the secondary part and the phrase "everything is ambiguous". Drop and decide: whose side are you on. Without any "BUT" and "IF". Hand for you can be only two: "Ukraine" and "Russia". Other parties for you in this war no.

AFTER you have decided, you can enter all sorts of "but" and "if". "I for Ukraine, but would like to...." or "I'm for Russia, BUT". However, if you're "for Russia, then, alas, you and I are on different sides of the front.

PACIFISM WILL NOT WORK

The position of the "stop the war" - not a position. It's emotion. Your cries nor Putin, nor Poroshenko, neither Obama nor Merkel and no one will stop. However, if you still want to shout into the void that is your business. Although, there is much more logical action than to fart in eternity. Even if you hear, for example, Poroshenko, you will hear whether you Putin?

LOOK AROUND

In your country for a YEAR at war. Whoever and whatever was called. Whoever was laughing. Whoever was skeptical. War going on between Ukraine and Russia. Inclusions "rebels" are fighting on the side and for the interests of the Russian Federation. The government of the Russian Federation can believe only citizens of the Russian Federation and a little more "wise men" from Ukraine. All. The rest either don't care or they don't believe Russia. It is a fact. Want to Lavrov and Putin, or not. However, Lavrov and Putin is a politician. And we're talking about the perception of the war.

If you think your city is quiet, so, in your world there is no war, you are mistaken.
If you think you're sitting in the posture of Zen, and so is war in your country no, you're wrong consciously.
If you sit in the costume of hippie-pacifist problems and you don't care about it until the first of the dead friend, before the first mourning friends, to the first summons, before the first explosion at the stop of YOUR city.
If you're trying to convince myself that everything will cost, it is easier to leave.
If you have nowhere to go re-read the article again.
So, alas, there was that about the war many of us knew from Soviet films. There were charred walls of the burned houses, massed tank attacks. The planes were, the music was playing. With a cry of "HURRAH!" the battle came mustachioed fellows. In fact it is not. War is not like that. War is a woman who came for bread and were killed by a shell at the bus stop. This projectile could be a provocation for "Linus", could be a defective shell, which just failed to reach the goal, could be a poor contact with the Ukrainian army, could be a good deterrent for the Russian terrorists. The woman came for bread and women did not. "HURRAH!" no one was screaming. The aircraft was not flying. The city will not be burned. This is WAR.

THINK ABOUT TOMORROW

This is the most important. Someone "tomorrow" may not be. And YOU have it to be required. To die just. But if you got nowhere to go, it is not easier to do everything to survive and win? Those who will have to gnash my teeth and toss between the two lights, TOMORROW will lose. It is a fact. To rush and fleer easier abroad. Trust me.

AND ANOTHER
No need to whine on "but Gunpowder", "Putin".... Leave it alone. Yes. There are many problems. But they are dependent on you? No. You can solve them? No. And that's not bibical. Want to get - go. Just please run silently. Want to stay? Welcome to HELL. But it will be a winner. Not the fact that to be a winner in this war you will like it. However, after the war you'll have so MUCH work that you will be not up to it.

Source: Facebook Ivan Sotnik