The real Colonia is only Schaefer, not Lena ("Dignity Colony")

Darrion 2022-11-29 15:18:27

The story is complete. Daniel joined a foreign revolution and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. Lena went deep into the tiger's den and escaped to heaven with Daniel. Lena's perseverance and calmness make us feel that she seems to have foreseen her luck.

However, the real history, only Colonia and Schaefer, not Lena.

It's a truly disturbing escape story. It is not the flood of doomsday, nor the continuous fire of war, that makes us feel threatened. But on a sunny morning, when you are reading the morning newspaper with a piece of toast, you don't know that the farm not far away has always been another world.

People hear rumors from their neighbors from time to time, and occasionally hear a cold, vague radio in the distance early one morning, and you've had those terrible guesses. But before entering Colonia, none of this concerns anyone.

A wave of support for Allende soon swept the city, with slogans chanting that made you eagerly hope for that ideal to come true. You did everything you could, because outside of Colonia, you believed in the beautiful words of justice, kindness, and ideals. Bright red slogans, excited crowds... South American enthusiasm combined with the formula of revolutionary romanticism, there is a violent chemical reaction in this country.

Enthusiasm was high, but the situation quickly changed. Enthusiastic slogans are no match for tanks and bullets. People first became angry, then worried, and finally gave in completely in fear. The former speakers were all in danger, and those who were identified by their former allies were desperate.

We are all willing to pursue and fight bravely and enthusiastically! The premise is that the price to be paid is very small, and we all have a good life.

Awaiting the speaker is Colonia. I don't think a sane person would go to Colonia voluntarily, and naturally, Lena was never there.

Colonia has no love, no friends, no family. There were electrocutions, icy radio, Bavarian peasant uniforms, unsmiling Mammys and a bunch of Daniels.

People here used to have different hobbies and ardent expectations, but all their human attributes have been stripped away here. They are not someone's father or mother, not someone's husband or wife, not a photographer, not a child, just naked sheep. They live or die here.

Countless Daniels were literally imprisoned and died here, and they didn't get away without Lena. Despair surrounds them, which some people would love to see. Compared with the irresistible natural disasters, the human struggle is hopeless.

(Writing and writing, my mind is messed up, take it as a random thought...

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Colonia quotes

  • [repeated line]

    Paul Schäfer: Everything under God's sun is good for something.

  • Gisela: [referring to Lena's clunky somewhat heeled shoes] And take off those shoes. You look like a slut.