History of European Peace

 This year, 2025, we mark 80 years since the end of Nazism and Fascism on European soil and we wonder whether a third world war will break out. Nazism and Fascism, which rose partly at the expense of the economic crisis, brought ruins, devastation and mass graves of soldiers who died in battles and also civilians in concentration camps or civilians killed in other ways during the war and post-war settlements to the European continent by 1945.

In the Second World War, fundamental human rights were trampled again, which re-emerged with the establishment of the United Nations and the Declaration of Human Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. Thus, 80 years have passed, which should also be said a big NO to rhetoric or diplomacy of arms and the attempt to dominate one nation over another, or to some kind of new and/or old phenomenon of enslaving inferior and/or smaller nations.

After World War II, the superpowers or great nations promised the European people respect for the self-determination of nations regarding the form of their political and economic system. The most famous allies and guarantors of the reconstruction of Europe's destroyed territory and population, such as Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, are still written in the history of European nations today as the big three allies and great winners of World War II and those who shaped the European space after World War II. Italy and Germany, with fascism and Nazism, went down in history as the great losers of the world war and the mother of the system of extermination, conquest and subjugation of other nations and as a reminder to humanity of what should never happen again.

This year, 2025, has also brought us a renewed discussion or revaluation of the balance of power between the superpowers on planet Earth. Many nations may wonder whether they will be able to defend their sovereignty this time too or whether they will simply be erased from world maps. Even maps with the introduction of state borders between nations and states and the census of ethnic groups after the end of World War II became the subject of an imperialist game with military means or the reconquest of foreign territories.

Thus, we can simply conclude that we most likely lived in the illusion of peace and peaceful coexistence between nations, because all this time in the 80s was devoted to improving weapons, which will again be the main diplomatic rhetoric intended to expand the spheres of interest of the government, subjugate other weaker nations or perhaps even exterminate them. The history of humanity will again record the great losers and great winners of the imperial game of a possible third world war, which will be set on the mass graves of humanity and the destroyed human environment.

It is also quite possible that humanity will once again have a long and painful debate after the destructive rhetoric and diplomacy of weapons, whether the nation that raised the sword against others was also destroyed by that sword.