Unconditional Help Quotes
In one of the most cynical treaties in history, Communist Russia under Stalin entered into a mutual defense treaty with Fascist Nazi Germany under Hitler. Russia and Germany had been bitter enemies, and philosophically Communism and Fascism had been at opposite poles. But both countries were led by ruthless dictators who at this moment in history became useful to each other. One result for example, is that Germany and Russia divided Poland which lost its independence and its integrity. The pact did not last very long, and soon the two nations were again bitter enemies and the battles between them accounted for the majority of both nations’ WWII casualties where the Russians had 22 million of their citizens killed by their former “allies”.
There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
