Even Greener Pastures

I like your analysis of the "Last Judgement" (painting and the whole idea). 
I remember I liked this movie (Powidoki) when I was watching it. Now I forgot the details and it's obviously worth refreshing in my memory.

The story about the word "freedom" in Japanese reminds us of another truth.
We are thinking about (doubtful in this case) influence of the word meaning on history, and forget that real meaning of it depends on the history of nations which use it. In Europe most countries have longer or shorter episodes in history when their freedom understood as independence was temporarily lost, limited or at least endangered. There are even nations which didn't manage to win their independence for centuries. The freedom is what they could (or can) only dream of.