ON PATRIOTISM.

The article focuses on distinction between patriotism and chauvinism, in their contemporary context. It mentions patriotism is nothing more than love of one's country, language, history, and nature and has always been an expression of an inferiority complex, a nation-wide inferiority complex, and perhaps here lies its social power. It also mentions bitter lesson of the horrors of the Second World War, is the ever-closer union of people and nations.