Word: motherland
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...Russian children had no new toys for the New Year's celebration. There were no red-cloaked wooden replicas of Dyed Moross (Granddad Frost). There was no smoked salmon, no pickled herring, no goose, no vodka, no coffee for the grownups. But there was rejoicing. The Rodina (Motherland) had been saved for the second time in two years and now victory and peace could...
...Hail to the Motherland: "I bow to thee, Mother, rich with rivers, rich with fruits, with cool breezes, with green fields full of corn. Oh, Mother, I bow to thee...
...Jews are men, these Jewesses are women; these aliens are men and women. All is not permissible against them, against these men and women, against these fathers and mothers. They belong to mankind. They are our brethren as are so many others. No Christian can forget that. France, beloved motherland; France, who preserves in the conscience of all her children traditional respect for the human individual; chivalrous and generous France, I do not doubt that you are not responsible for these errors...
Somber as the future was, the present was grimmest of all for the people of Russia. But Russia's millions were rising to their trial with the ferocious courage of a people fired by undaunted faith in their motherland. Their Red army, battered and bleeding on the south Russian plains, was locked in history's greatest battle. Beneath Nazi bludgeoning the Red army was reeling back, back toward Stalingrad, back toward the Caspian, back toward Asia...
...songwriter had as yet pulled as fast a one as John Golden did in World War I. His Fall In Line For Your Motherland (1916) had "lyrics by Woodrow Wilson." Ingenious John Golden had picked phrases from President Wilson's speeches, welded them into twelve stanzas, had then got the President's permission to put his name on the cover...