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Well, not literally. But as Weyrich told an audience of approximately 40 at the Kennedy School of Government yesterday, he sits in his Washington D.C. office to the right, spatially, of a reproduction of the Mongol leader's sword hanging on his wall...
...telephone!" What the author of War and Peace had in mind, of course, was the device's military potential. But Genghis Khan as symbol stands for something much larger in the Russian psyche: a force of upheaval that can intrude as suddenly as an arctic gale or a Mongol horde. In the convulsions that wracked Moscow last week, as in the ambush that slaughtered American soldiers in distant Somalia, chaos demonstrated once more that it has long since mastered the long-distance message. Genghis Khan today not only has telephones and satellite-TV links, but uses them to wake...
...fears of Russia's neighbors across the spectrum of Eurasia have deep historical roots. "Scratch a Russian, and you will wound a Tartar," wrote the dry-eyed French 19th century observer of Russia, Joseph de Maistre. The ) Mongol invasion (1237-1480) and its aftermath of cruel autocracy had isolated Russians totally from Western developments, particularly the Renaissance and the Reformation. That long isolation embraced every aspect of Russian life. Russia's first modern technology, in the 17th century, was all imported from Holland and Germany. Russia didn't have even a single university until...
...been called "Reagan with brains," and she once referred to herself, in a rare try at humor, as "Genghis Khan." Such japes are a bit hard on the ex-President and the late Mongol scourge. Margaret Thatcher, Britain's highly conservative Prime Minister, is hard to humanize. Still, when Britain needed to be put to bed without its supper after decades of infantile class warfare, she did the job. Now unemployment is high, and education and health care are poorer. But Britain's economy and pride have perked up, and the middle class is prospering...
...nationalism than of a hunger for democracy. The descendants of Genghis Khan are rediscovering traces of an identity that was systematically blurred during the decades of Soviet domination. Mongolian script, abandoned in the 1940s in favor of the Cyrillic alphabet, is again being taught. The image of the Mongol hero is back in vogue: a nearly completed joint-venture hotel is named after Genghis Khan, and his visage adorns the label of a local vodka that is bottled / for export. An elaborate memorial to the warrior will soon be constructed in the capital. Meanwhile, the last of the Stalin statues...