Was it some unsung British genius or some apparatchik who realized that to defeat and destroy Russia one only needs to teach the Russians love each other the way a mole likes its body or a cucumber inspires Eros and individuality (and both the mole and the cucumber being strangely Putin's first professional nicknames)? In World War II, the Soviets prevailed--because they loved their own more passionately and more deeply than their enemies. Then some unloving and loveless bureaucrat invented a new form of "love"--loving the country and the neighbor the way a thief and even a murder "loves" his victim.
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