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Taline Ter Minassian, Reginald Teague-Jones. Au service secret de l’Empire britannique

2012; Éditions de l'EHESS; Issue: 53/4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4000/monderusse.7815

1777-5388

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye,

North African History and Literature

As if to distract from its own sanguinary excesses, many of the twentieth century’s more repressive regimes took great care to establish a martyrology to inspire the masses. Thus the Third Reich commemorated the assassinated SA-activist Horst Wessel with its second anthem, Mao’s China celebrated “Sister” Jiang Zhuyun with an opera, and every Soviet schoolchild was well acquainted with the story of Pavlik Morozov, the teenager who was murdered by relatives after he had denounced his father to ...