In a war, a person is greatly transformed: the attitude towards himself and others, self-esteem and worldview changes. Even just the feeling of a weapon in your hands creates the illusion of your own importance, self-confidence, strength and power. War, where everyone has a weapon, and its use becomes a habitual daily duty, forms a special type of human personality - the personality of an armed person who takes part in hostilities.
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Step 1
The main trait of a person who has gone through a war is the habit of violence. It is formed and clearly manifested in the course of hostilities and continues to exist for a long time after their end, leaving an imprint on all aspects of life. In extreme situations, when a person in a war faces death, he begins to look at himself and the world around him in a completely different way. Everything that filled his daily life suddenly becomes insignificant, a new, completely different meaning of his existence is revealed to the individual.
Step 2
For many, in war, qualities such as superstition and fatalism are formed. If superstition is not manifested in all individuals, then fatalism is the main feature of the psychology of a military man. It consists of two opposite sensations. The first is to be sure that the person will not be killed anyway. The second is that sooner or later the bullet will find him. Both of these sensations form the soldier's fatalism, which after the first battle is fixed in his psyche as an attitude. This fatalism and the superstitions associated with it become a defense against the stress that every fight is, dulling fear and unloading the psyche.
Step 3
War with its conditions of chronic danger of losing health or life every minute, with the conditions of not only unpunished, but also encouraged destruction of other people, forms in a person new qualities that are necessary in wartime. Such qualities cannot be formed in peacetime, but in conditions of hostilities they are revealed as soon as possible. In battle, it is impossible to hide your fear or show feigned courage. Courage either completely abandons the fighter, or is manifested in its entirety. Likewise, the highest manifestations of the human spirit in everyday life rarely happen, and during the war they become a mass phenomenon.
Step 4
In a combat situation, situations often arise that place too high demands on the human psyche, which can cause abrupt pathological changes in the psyche of an individual. So along with heroism, fighting brotherhood and mutual assistance in war, robberies, torture, cruelty to prisoners, sexual violence to the population, robbery and looting on the enemy's land are not uncommon. To justify such actions, the formula “the war will write off everything” is often used, and responsibility for them in the consciousness of the individual is shifted from him to the surrounding reality.
Step 5
A strong influence on the human psyche is exerted by the features of the front-line life: frost and heat, lack of sleep, malnutrition, lack of normal housing and comfort, constant overwork, lack of sanitary and hygienic conditions. As well as the hostilities themselves, extremely perceptible life inconveniences are stimuli of unusually great force that form the special psychology of a person who has gone through a war.
