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...globalized, deracinated glory. Hav's transformation is "a paradigm of our 21st century zeitgeist," Morris writes with the sadness of someone old enough to know how delightfully diverse the world used to be. - By Donald Morrison 2. Carmen Callil, Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland...
...last century started with the massive slander of Stalin. The restoration of the country cannot happen without the full truth about him. To speak the truth about Stalin today ... helps strengthen the will and spirit of our people and contribute to the salvation of our fatherland in a difficult and dangerous time." President Vladimir Putin has not gone as far as Yazov, but he has long been unwilling to condemn Stalin. He recently described the collapse of the Soviet Union as "the greatest disaster of the 20th century." And earlier this month, Putin once again defended Stalin's infamous annexation...
...Central Europe's nations, fertility rates have imploded in the past 15 years because many young adults worry that having kids would make them fall behind in their increasingly competitive post-Communist societies. These days, asking people to bear children for the fatherland is only slightly less offensive than asking them to die for it. But the fertility crisis has reached such a dire pass that politicians are beginning to speak out. In a letter to their E.U. colleagues last month, French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Prime Ministers José Luis Rodríguez...
...midnight sense of humor, it’s vital to understand where he came from. His book jackets brusquely state that “James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948,” which he referred to as “my smog-bound fatherland.” Ellroy admitted, “I think that says...
...Michael Frayn?s play ?Democracy,? which has been running in London for nearly a year. Brandt, who left Germany for Norway in 1933 and helped resistance leaders in the fruitless attempts to overthrow Hitler, gave a human face to a national long tainted by Nazism. Calling for ?a fatherland of love and justice? and pursuing the doctrine of detente with the Soviet bloc - Ostpolitik - Brandt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971. Three years later he was brought down, as other leaders have been, by a spy scandal and a sex scandal. (Oddly, he didn?t fabricate...