Talk:Serge Schmemann

what he just wrote
"Germany and Japan have dedicated considerable efforts to demonstrating that despite their histories of armed aggression, they have now forsworn militarism. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's longing to participate in D-Day commemorations, or Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 major war criminals among 2.6 million Japanese war dead - or both their ardent efforts to secure permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council - reflect parallel yearnings to shed historical stigmas and to proclaim that they have earned a right to a place at the high table."

this is what he says in a recent editorial. visit here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/22/opinion/22tue4.html.

i really can't believe someone would have this kind of a logic. it's like saying tom killed peter, and tom's family are now not only avoiding telling their children that the murder happened, but also worshipping tom and rubbing it in peter's family's face every year. and in mr. schmemann's opinion, that shows tom's family really did introspect... oh my god... i'm not attacking his personalities but i just don't understand how an intellectual can say something like that. oh my god. i'm from china and i don't know him very well. i googled his name and i found out he has an article here at wiki, so he must be very famous. i really wonder, is he really like this? i'm really really in shock. i always thought though some politicians are tricky, but the american people, specially the intellectuals are logical and upright. but i just don't get why he said this? i understand his point of not raking up the past pain, but that doesn't mean when someone can't fully face his past wrongdoings we should turn away or even justify it.--Wooddoo-eng 17:46, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I don't think you understood his point at all, which is how these nations are trying to cope with their World War 2 legacies decades later. Moreover, the talk page on a Wikipedia article is not the place for airing of opinions on its subject.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.243.148.28 (talk) 15:41, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

Echoes Of A Native Land
Serge Schememann's book Echoes Of A Native Land is essentially his family history of before the Russian Revolution and how the village that they left survived the 70 years to the end of Communist rule in 1990. It is a great book for people interested in Russian history from the perspective of the Russian Aristocracy. The book gives great insight into pre-revolutionary Russia from a modern independent thinking writer whose family still has intimate connections with Post-Soviet Russia. It contains great nuggets of information on the events of the revolutionary period, the civil war, the disasterous period of collectivisation and its effect on the classic Russian village. This is not a history of the Russian Revolution but connects real life before and after the revolution. Overall a great read and a good author. G Fraser frsrgrdn2@yahoo.co.uk

Incidentally...
Schmemann is a 1963 graduate of The Collegiate School in Manhattan. RahadyanS 04:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I misspoke. I read in the winter 2006-07 issue of Collegiate's alumni magazine that he only attended Collegiate through 7th grade and graduated elsewhere. RahadyanS 14:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)