“Putin’s ideology is nationalism, the only belief system that may have killed as many human beings as Marxism. “
This makes me think of those parody articles warning of the dangers of di-hydrogen monoxide, because it has killed millions of people.
Unique among nations, Russia has nationalism! Evil!
It’s good America is not so evil, because we have no nationalism at all.
A lack of nationalism is completely ideal.
The states that give up their culture and identity in europe for an unelected bureaucracy and unimpeded immigration are best.
It’s not “nationalism” that is evil. Just what Russia does with theirs.
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” - Strobe Talbot, Deputy Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, Time Magazine, 1992
Manifesto for a rebirth of Russia.
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, first published in Moscow 1990.
Enough, says Russia's most influential living writer, enough of party bureaucracy, enough of Communist power, enough of a society built on lies. What is needed are not the half-measures of perestroika but a root-and-branch reform that will give the Russians back their country and revitalise the traditional values of the people...
Vladimir Putin, now prime minister after eight years as president, was among the mourners who stopped to express his condolences.
Putin later called for Solzhenitsyn's works to become an important part of Russia's school curriculum.
"Together with the entire nation, he lived through a great tragedy of repressions," Putin said in a televised meeting with Russia's education minister. "But he not only lived through it, but ... by his works and his entire life, he inoculated our society against tyranny in all its forms."
When I read this my 1st thought was, “nationalism is within our own borders, think LaRaza. They believe that we stole their land and they have vowed to take it back.”
Islamists would like to conquer us and either convert us to their religion or subject us to 2nd class citizen status.
Best we develop a bit of our own nationalism before we lose our country.