Bearing patience with our kinsmen

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. But I who have seen the nature of the good that it is beautiful, and of the bad that it is ugly, and the nature of him who does wrong, that it is akin to me, not only of the same blood or seed, but that it participates in the same intelligence and the same portion of the divinity, I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him. For we are made for co-operation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away."

Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations.
Art: Robert, H. (1733-1808). Washerwomen by the Statue of Marcus Aurelius.

A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes, and Vandals is a book written by Olaus Magnus, a Swedish archbishop and historian, in the 16th century. It is a historical account of the ancient and medieval peoples of northern Europe, especially the Scandinavians, the Germans, and the Slavs. The book covers topics such as geography, climate, customs, religion, warfare, politics, and legends of these regions. It is based on Magnus’s own observations, as well as classical and medieval sources, and contains many illustrations and maps. The book was first published in Latin in 1555, and later translated into English in 1658. It is considered one of the most important works of early Scandinavian history and culture.

A Compendious History of the Goths, Swedes, and Vandals (1658).

A fourteenth century handgun found in the sea near Mörkö, Sweden.

Eva March Tappan (1918). Our European ancestors; an introduction to United States history.

Documents and Conspiratorial Addresses from the archives of the communist party of Italy (PCI) in 1923.

"November 25 is the Holodomor Victims' Memorial Day
According to the census data, the population decreased as follows:
In Ukraine - by 20.5%;
In the North Caucasus - by 20.4%;
In the Volga region - by 23%,
In Kazakhstan - by 30.9%.
The number of victims of the Holodomor, according to various sources, is estimated at nine million four hundred thousand people:
4 million died in Ukraine,
In Russia - 2.5 million.
In Kazakhstan - 1.5 million.
In Belarus - 1.5 million.
The Holodomor is the practical embodiment of the communist theory. Wherever the Reds came to power anywhere on the globe, they quickly arranged "death and starvation" - this has proved a consistent statement of fact."

Slawademin (2023). Holodomor Victims’ Memorial Day and Its Historical Impact.

An insider's report on the communist caused famine in China, Chiang kai-shek's relief offer refused due to the embarrassment it will cause to the party (1950). Available online: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp82-00457r004700440005-4

"At Peking University there exists still a kind of concentration camp for “bad elements” where also the former President Lu Ping is said to be interned. Another camp of the university is at Lake Poyang, in 50 kilometers distance from Nanchang, [capital of Jianxi Province]. Professors, who had returned from there, told that living conditions in the villages in this region are extraordinarily bad. It is even happening that parents are selling their daughters (the price for a girl is equal to a price for a pig)... According to incomplete overviews, during the “Cultural Revolution” about 200 professors and instructors from Peking University are said to have committed suicide... However, currently there is no economic program in sight yet. There are indications for an upcoming extension of
work day hours. Currently a campaign is running against the inner 'counter-revolution'..."

Embassy of the GDR in the PR China (1970). Club Meeting of the Ambassadors, On Domestic Developments in the PR China

When the worst of humanity rules

"At no period of history was the role of the lowest elements of the population exercised in such a lasting fashion as in the French Revolution... The mystic mentality of which Robespierre was the most celebrated representative did not die with him. Men of identical mentality are to be found among the French politicians of to-day. The old religious beliefs no longer rule their minds, but they are the creatures of political creeds which they would very soon force on others, as did Robespierre, if they had the chance of so doing. Always ready to kill if killing would spread their faith, the mystics of all ages have employed the same means of persuasion as soon as they have become the masters... We must hope for the sake of liberty that these gloomy fanatics will never finally become our masters."

Gustave Le Bon (1841). The Psychology of Revolution.

"Now are coming the times of trials, severe and trying, spoken of in the Scriptures. It is written, "The wrath of God is coming upon the world." Everyone will hear the voice of God and find out for themselves whether there is really Justice in the world or not... The end of evil in the world is coming. The holy light will produce opposite results: a great darkness will fall on the earth, but it will bring great light into the souls of men."
Dunov, P. (1917). "All things have been committed to me."

"The modern European nations will become weak, they will lose their strength, there will be famine on the Earth. Pigs, cattle, chickens, turkeys will decrease, they will nearly disappear. Not only that but bread will be reduced, some will only receive 250g per day, you may have to go hungry for several days... Therefore, the Kingdom of God is a union, let people work for each other and only then will the Lord help you. But now you think only of yourselves."
Dunov, P. (1917). "To fulfill what is written."

The face of a Bolshevik captured by the Finnish Army.

Tao-tai Hsia and Constance Johnson (1985). Population control in the People's Republic of China.

"We remove the unemployed from Finland: To Siberia!"

A Högfors Siro wood-burning stove (1935).

German wheel-lock pistol adapted to fire seven barrels. The centre barrel fires a train of powder in the curved strip container on top, which ignites the other six barrels. Tower of London.

The Codex Casanatensis was a 14th century Inquisition manual, for use by the Franciscan inquisitors, Tuscany. Some quotes:
"The Templars ought not to receive oblations or alms from the heretics or their accomplices nor ought they to confer ecclesiastical sacraments to those ones."
"The Jews have to be forced to observe the laws and constitutions issued against them lest they pervert the faithful with too much freedom."
"A Jew ought not to take a Christian woman as a wife."
"Christian man ought not to take a Jewish woman as a wife."
"The Talmud, namely, a certain book in which, for the judge of Aragon, many blasphemies both against Christ as against the blessed Virgin and against the old law and the law and other books have had to be taken away from the Jews themselves by the prelates, and for this, all the temporal lords of that region have had to be compelled into cooperating."
"All presiderships of whatever community are prohibited for the Jews."
"Heretics are forced and subdued by corporal punishment."

The Codex Casanatensis, a 14th century Inquisition manual for use by the Franciscan inquisitors of Tuscany [Latin transcript and English translation].