Americans go about their daily lives generally in peace and prosperity.  We live in a giant exception to the rule.  Not always is it this way.

Maybe we ought to prepare for tougher times.  

Faith is strength for those that believe.

General Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, commander of the Russian forces resisting the Bolsheviks.  Unfortunately, the good guys sometimes lose.

The Hungarians topple Stalin's statue, at least for a while...

Wie schnell ist doch das leben aus.

                                         Mikhael Kalashnikov with his eponymous creation, which he looks like he is about to use in this picture.