America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.

Regimes like the one in Russia are stabilized by the fact that they have no ideology. There is really no ideological means to attack them.

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