The statue of casting a sword into a plow has stood in the United Nations for forty years. Why do war and death still trample on justice and justice from time to time?

When will the world turn swords into plowshares? This question has been asked a lot, but who can give the answer?

There is a saying that "we are not afraid of war, but we are against it"! Indeed, no matter a country, a nation or a city is afraid of war, because we have a great spirit of unity. No matter how strong you are, you are better than the last country, a nation and a city. But we are against war.

In front of the United Nations Headquarters, the statue of "casting swords into plows" has stood for more than 40 years. However, for people all over the world who long for peace, the bell of peace has not yet rung. War and death still trample on the surrounding kilometers and justice from time to time.

No one in the world wants war. War is cruel, terrible and tragic. Once it breaks out, it is estimated that many people will lose their homes, relatives and lives. Soldiers are nothing to the president, but to her mother, they are everything to her.

The arrival of a war does not mean that it can bring happiness to this country, but it is mostly a cruel fact.

Over the past 9,000 years, science and technology have made continuous progress and wars have not diminished.

Why can't humans live in peace?

Whether it is a world war or a war on terrorism, it is just "profit".

China has a vast territory and was invaded by the Japanese, but today the Japanese openly say that it was for self-defense: there is a lot of oil in Iraq, and oil is the most valuable thing in the world. Americans attacked Iraq to get a lot of oil, and they also said it was to fight terrorist organizations.

How grandiose and ridiculous the reasons of these "robbers" are!

"The government will sometimes be a robber, but the people will never be a robber" is a sentence written by Hugo, a French writer, to a general of the British and French allied forces.

No one wants to see war break out.

People are eager for the bell of peace to ring as soon as possible, and hope that there will be no war in this world as soon as possible!

When will the world turn swords into plowshares?

When will the sword become a plow? In other words, when will the world truly realize the elimination of war and the emergence of permanent peace?

After the end of World War II, the world was peaceful. People have entered a period of peace from the suffering of war and deeply feel that peace is hard to come by. People all over the world deeply hope that there will be no more wars in the future. Therefore, the first meeting of the World Congress for the Defence of Peace was opened on April 20th, 1949, and was held simultaneously in Paris and Prague from April 20th to 25th, 1949.

1949 On April 20th, the first meeting of the World Congress for the Defence of Peace opened:

For the second time after the war, the cold war rose, threatening the peaceful life of residents. Some international organizations and celebrities proposed to hold a world conference to defend peace, opposed aggression and war policies, and demanded the unconditional prohibition of atomic weapons and weapons of mass destruction. The first congress was held in Paris and Prague from April 20 to 25, 1949. More than 2000 delegates from 72 countries attended the meeting. The General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the World Congress for the Defence of Peace, Letter to the People of the World and other documents 10, and elected its Standing Committee.

1952 65438+In February, in order to congratulate the World People's Peace Conference held in Vienna, Picasso, a famous French painter, presented a new work, The Dove of Peace. It gives us a new symbol, which indicates that the struggle for peace of people all over the world has reached a higher stage.

This is the third dove of peace painted by Picasso. The first one is1April, 949. When the first World Peace Conference was held, he painted a quiet dove, which showed the simple and dignified will of peace-loving people. The second painting was in September of 1950. He drew a pigeon for the second world congress to defend peace. This is a dove of peace flying all over the world. It didn't stop there quietly, but spread its wings and flew. 1952 When the World People's Peace Conference was held again in February, Picasso presented the third dove of peace.

To commemorate the First World Peace Conference, Soviet sculptor yevgeny Vucetic created a bronze statue of "casting a sword into a plow". In the sculpture, the young man holds a hammer in one hand and a sword to be cast into a plow in the other, which symbolizes that human beings demand the elimination of war and turn weapons that destroy human beings into creative tools that benefit all mankind. This bronze statue was presented to the United Nations as a permanent memorial by the then Soviet government in 1959. It is still placed in the garden of the United Nations, and the square garden in front of the United Nations building is decorated with sculptures presented by other countries.

In addition, China also has the idiom "casting swords into plows", which melts weapons into farm tools. You can refer to Confucius' Thoughts (a fake book): "Casting swords is used as agricultural tools, and Harada releases cattle and horses, so there is no desire to leave home, and there is no struggle for chitose. "(fantasy)

The picture shows 1959, the sculpture "Casting a Sword as a Plow" presented to the United Nations by the Soviet Union at that time. This statue was made by the Soviet sculptor yevgeny Vucetic: