This is not entirely true. He was often asked about the war's influence on his work and this is what he said in one of the interviews (rough translation from Polish): "I was 10 when the war began. I was raised on comic books, death rays and Martians so I expected that war will bring spectacular experiences. Yet, war in my opinion as a child was just a change of the officials and bad food. Then it's rather difficult to admit I'm painting the catastrophe of war that I remember from childhood. Honestly speaking, I was actually disappointed with the lack of *special effects*. That's the way I'd put it. Of course I saw the dead and I survived the longlasting front, but for children such things are like water off duck's back." (quote from his art dealer's site http://beksinski.dmochowskigallery.net/introduction.php)

No idea a human could reflect the perspective of the universe instead of a country or planet. Well, if you want to believe go ahead.

"Nazis"? The destruction was done by the (((Allies))). The Soviets raped and pillaged what remained.

On one hand, it could be subconscious - he wouldn't even realise. On the other hand, imagination works wonders and having dreams based on war doesn't necessarily mean you've actually experienced it/had trauma. Of course it is part of his past, but many times imagination takes you in far off places. For example, I have quite vivid and "creepy" dreams (since he paints about his dreams), but I've not experienced war. However, many things can lead to such depictions. I often dream of death (not a fear of mine tho), due to my father having been very sick as a child. As a child I never really realised the full impact, this only really happened many years later and only then did I have nightmares of it - never as a child. There are also small things that may happen in life that your brain turns into scary happenings - i.e. fear of being trapped, of being lost etc. and often your brain takes things it has seen and recreates this "creepy" dream.

I'm sorry but you are wrong - although it seems quite natural to think that way Bekisński himself laughed off that kind of suggestions

completely agree!

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The "destruction" was caused by international jewry, which destroyed bother Germany and the Soviet Union.