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19 November 2012. A Point to Ponder. THIS is Why Russia Remembers…
Tags: Ilya Glazunov, Minin, political commentary, politics, poster, Pozharsky, Rod Dreher, Russia, Russian, Russian culture, Russian history, United States, USA, Valentin Rasputin, Victory Day, Washington Post
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A braying jackass on the Washington Post bloviated recently that Russian patriotism seemed based (to him) only on Victory Day. There’s much more to it, of course. Every year, bodies are found on the old battlefields… it brings the reality of the war home to a new generation. Russian patriotism has many roots, in fact. There’s the Baptism of Rus in the Dnepr… the Battle on the Ice… Minin and Pozharsky… Great October… the Great Victory… Gagarin’s journey into space… indeed, it’s much more “rooted” than its American analogue.
Russia remembers… America refuses to… I think that I see a difference there. On the one hand you have a Rod Dreher and a Freddie M-G… on the other, you have a Valentin Rasputin and Ilya Glazunov… there’s no comparison, is there? Russia remembers… so should we…
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