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...Polozkov, head of the Russian republic's Communist Party, told Gorbachev, "I cannot understand how, after taking on such a large and responsible affair as perestroika, you have let the steering wheel slip from your hands." Admiral Gennadi Khvatov, commander of the Pacific fleet, intoned the old slogan, "The fatherland is in danger." Gorbachev, tired of the harangues, stormed to the rostrum and announced he would resign...
When the two Germanys prepared to unite last year, one allied anxiety concerned what kind of extraterritorial stormtrooper the reborn Fatherland might prove to be. In July, Nicholas Ridley, then Britain's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, publicly stated what many privately thought when he said that proposals for a European Community common currency were "a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe." World War II, he added, was "useful to remember...
...proposal came last month from a group styling itself the Centrist bloc and claiming support from 20 political parties and associations. And only two weeks ago, Ivan Polozkov, unreconstructed head of the Communist Party of the Russian republic, wrote in Pravda that a "Union for the Salvation of the Fatherland" should be formed to unite all "patriotic forces" and "prevent a transition to a market system...
...German unity in 1900. The future of free Europe is not the future of the old nation-state. We are talking about a wider opening, and that is the hour of Europe. It also offers new opportunities to the Germans. That is in keeping with the mood here: the Fatherland is Germany, the future is Europe. That is today's phrase...
...case in point. Kohl pressured three East German parties to join forces by forming the "Alliance for Germany," which, incidentally, was proclaimed in Bonn rather than in East Berlin. At campaign rallies in East Germany, he let himself be announced as the "Chancellor of the German Fatherland." Subsequently, he declared openly that the flow of West German aid to East Germany was conditional on the outcome of East German elections...