One man with courage is a majority
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What happened to the guy in the top photo? How ultimately did he meet his end?
I agree with your point, but it's important to keep in mind that going against the herd can make one's life significantly less pleasant and significantly shorter.
Killed in action apparently, after spending three years in a concentration camp, though not for this offense: http://web.archive.org/web/20210904004938/https://www.businessinsider.com/the-lone-german-man-who-refused-to-give-hitler-the-nazi-salute-2015-6
Yes, it was dangerous. There were even people who opposed Stalin - who all had grisly ends, of course. But if they were willing to take such risks, then people for whom it is considerably less dangerous have no excuse.
Old Soviet joke:
Stalin was giving an address to the Plenipotentiary when someone in the crowd sneezed. He paused, glanced up from the podium and demanded, "Who was that?"
Silence.
Stalin said, "All those seated in the first row, stand up!" They all stood, and he had his guards shoot them all. "Now, comrades, who sneezed?"
Still silence. "Second row, stand up!" They are shot as well.
Stalin asked a third time, "Who was that who sneezed?" and finally, a shaking, timid hand raised up in the back of the crowd. Stalin looked right at him and said, "Bless you Comrade!" Then went back to his speech.
Russian political humor is always dark.
An old lady goes into a bakery and says, "Do you have any meat?"
The baker replies, "No, you have the wrong shop. This is a bakery: we don't have any bread. You want the butcher across the street: That's where they don't have any meat."