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Nationalism and Freedom: Thirty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall
“Who are we, what holds us together, and how do we stay together so as to bear our burdens as a community? For conservatism is about national identity.”
— Sir Roger Scruton
“Who are we, what holds us together, and how do we stay together so as to bear our burdens as a community? For conservatism is about national identity.”
— Sir Roger Scruton
Germans have become incapable or unwilling to defend our national interests. We no longer secure our own borders—we are too refined for that. We leave it to others, such as Poland and Hungary, and then lecture them when they do it.
Gorbachev distinguished himself from former USSR leaders by his handling of pro-democracy protests in Eastern Europe. Instead of crushing these like previous Kremlin leaders had done—recall the tanks sent into Hungary in 1956 and then into Czechoslovakia in 1968—Gorbachev went a diplomatic route.
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