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...Sparta...
...Years' War, the Napoleonic French-dropped their Iron Curtains between north and south. Over the centuries there developed a dour, methodical, Protestant North, and an affable, beer-drinking, Catholic South. The East-West split, Leonhardt argues, has cut this historical Germany into quarters and generated an "Athens v. Sparta" complex that most Germans believe can only be cured by reunification...
Spirit to Die For. Though nationalism of one sort or another seems ingrained in modern man, it is historically very young-dating from the 18th century American and French revolutions. In the ancient world, a man's loyalty was given to his city-Athens or Corinth or Sparta...
...Sparta...
Soviet Russia is still a Sparta, not an Athens. It has no freedom in the Western sense, but dissatisfaction is becoming overt in a way that it never dared be before...