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...culminates a three-year campaign by the Roman Catholic Church against the abortion on demand that flourished for three decades under communism. Women's groups and a liberal wing of the anticommunist Solidarity movement, among others, opposed the severity of the curb. The church hierarchy, supported by Pope John Paul II, pushed for a total ban. Walesa, an abortion foe, opted to sign the new law as the best way to end quarreling...
...destroy it, so we had to destroy America's will to fight," says legendary military strategist General Vo Nguyen Giap, who served as North Vietnam's Defense Minister in 1968. "And by that measure, the Tet offensive * succeeded." America's leaders had convinced their public that the war against communism was being won at a reasonable cost. Tet shattered that myth...
Russian nationalism camouflaged itself with internationalism and communism and existed in this camouflaged form for seventy years. And now it is no longer camouflaged. Today, the whole discourse in Russian press is the same discourse as before 1917. And the main issue is Russian identity. What is Russia about? Is it eastern or western? And how can it assume the place that matches its greatness in the world...
...reformulate anything. This international Marxist ideology became for 70 years a part of Russian identity. So when it was cut off, it created confusion--the situation of anomie, and one was only able to find clear identity in the old traditional nationalism that was not contaminated by association of Communism...
What we all consider modern times, according to Greenfeld, is a result of nationalism, an ideology which emerged in the 17th century and eventually organized the world into a jigsaw puzzle of nation-states. For Greenfeld, it is not industrialism, capitalism or communism that necessarily made the world as it is, but nationalism which preceeded them and set the stage for their emergence...