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...Reek's passionately conservative view, Germany's troubles were born with the spirit of nationalism spawned by Bismarck's victory in the Franco-Prussian War. It enabled the Prussian oligarchy and the rich northern manufacturers and bankers to force industrialization throughout a country whose spirit, Reck believed, was basically agricultural. This led to an erosion of pastoral values and encouraged the weedlike growth of indiscriminate commercialism and technology. The result was mass men who, in their confusion of broken values and deflated deutschmarks, accepted as real the fatal delusions of an irrational clown like Hitler...
...discussion about hair; the Congressman duly assigned an aide to do some research. "We discovered that since the time of Christ, the male species has worn long hair and beards about 90% of the time. The Western world turned to short hair and clean-shaven faces only after the Prussian victory over France. All the great heroes of America have worn long hair. It's nothing for Americans to get alarmed about...
...Casino's heritage is as glorious as the tricolor itself. It was originally founded on the estate of the Due de Richelieu (grand nephew of the cardinal) two centuries ago. For the libertine duke's pleasure, the loveliest courtesans of France performed voluptuous charades. Between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, France's Belle Epoque, the Casino was the luxurious playground of continental nobility. Between the world wars, it went into decline under Director Henri Varna. "Give the public nudes, feathers and spangles. That's all they want," he once said, and the Casino...
...Soviet writers and intellectuals, including Alexander Ginzburg and Yuri Galanskov, were tried and convicted for anti-Soviet activities, their alleged connection with Grant's publishers was cited prominently by the state. Following the Grani incident, the Hamburg weekly Die Zeit published extracts in November of an epic poem, Prussian Nights, attributing it to Solzhenitsyn and promising more in later issues. After Heeb protested, Die Zeit agreed to stop further publication...
...abjured by Russia's authorities and suffered the supreme penalty for a writer-suppression of his work in his own country. Still, he seems to grow in strength and moral authority. As Solzhenitsyn himself observed in The First Circle: "One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings...