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...face of America are not scars but scratches--and that scabs heal unless irritated--I wonder at the wisdom that will make many 19- and 20-year-olds "aliens" in their own country. President Carter's appeal to the Fatherland for his legitimacy evokes historic appeals to the Motherland. It's too bad you have to fight irony with irony. --L.S.G...
...Historical and Cultural Monuments has served increasingly as an outlet for an officially sanctioned resurgence of Slavophilism. Many top officers of the armed forces worry about non-Russians some day dominating the military. This fear has contributed to the growth of a mystery-shrouded fraternal society called Rodina (the Motherland), which has come perilously close to crossing the boundary from Soviet patriotism to Russian chauvinism...
...waiting train: they are the current crop of 18-year-old Soviet draftees?about 1 million a year?heading off to begin their military service. After basic training and indoctrination at the camps, invariably hundreds of miles from their birthplaces, they will take a solemn oath to defend the motherland "with all my strength and in honor, without sparing my blood and without regard for my life...
With this vow, they formally become part of one of their country's most important institutions. The role played in World War II by what was then called the Red Army as savior of the motherland is still vividly remembered and celebrated. Military themes pervade Soviet literature, cinema and television. Beyond that, the might of the Kremlin's military juggernaut alone gives the Soviet Union legitimate claim to superpower rank. There is much pride but little exaggeration in the statement by Moscow's Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov that "the Soviet military has everything it needs to fulfill worthily its sacred...
Objectivity in the Nepalese press is a matter of degree. Nearly every newspaper inevitably develops a political bent in response to the interest group that most heavily funds it. The Rising Nepal and Motherland are accepted as organs of the government, while Kathmandu abounds as well with papers professing pro-Soviet, -Indian and -Chinese ideologies...