English to Indonesian Social Sciences Government / Politics Government

So what is to be done about nationalism? It should be clear by now that to suppress it is to court disaster: hell hath no fury like a nation scorned. Witness the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, which adhered to the dictum that if the omelet was to be the nation, some ethnic eggs had to be broken. The revolutions of Eastern Europe turned out to be less antisocialist and proliberal than pronationalist. Like it or not, Vladimir Zhirinovsky’s promise to get Russia off its knees has struck a chord among many of his countrymen. Symbolic deprivation often hurts more than the material kind; as his followers see it, Russia needs the restoration of its national pride at least as much as it needs material well-being.