Kain and Abel

  Two days ago saw the fireworks for the celebration of May the 9th - the day of rejoicing, the day of victory! Victory of a Soviet over the Nazi. Really, a day of  rejoicing, but, is it?
  As I was standing there, looking at the colorful splashes in the sky, hearing the sound, it donned on me - it is the same gun powder, just not so colorful, and much more deadly, the same gun sounds was raging over the Riga for years back then - leading hopes of people to the decay, leaving them in fear and tremblance every day, in wander if there will even be tomorrow. Imagine that - that sound in the sky, only it is not sound of joy, it is a sound of guns from a street, sound of a murder. Or, bombs flying down from planes on people.. Is it a day of rejoicing? Yes, if it is, then it is a rejoicing over the end of all this terrible both-sided murder!
  Nazi and Soviets, like Kain and Abel - two brothers, led by envy one is killed by another... When Kain killed the Abel we can read that "The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground." (Genesis 4:10) Is it not the same now - nations as brothers killing each other, and all our lands have to drink in the blood of these?
  Why there is war? Why so much rage for power? Influence? Are we all not brothers? Why can we be so friendly to each other when we get together at annual conferences, while during the war - enemies? Are country borders worth killing each other? Is even cultural identity or language worth a murder? I will leave these questions open for you to think on.