motherland

Triumph of the Will is still looked at as a millstone in cinema, and the soviets produced very memorable sculptural works such as The Motherland Calls to name two.

So aside from pure politics ('Russia is the motherland of elephants') i see no purpose for anyone doing it.

A sprawling bureaucracy—the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council—exists to ensure that distance from the motherland doesn't dull their patriotism.

We are Pakistanis & Indians, American born, immigrants, and some back in motherland.

I don't understand the idea of moving to another country and leaving all my shit back at the motherland.

I've gone back to the motherland about 3 times in the last decade and have always been thoroughly disappointed.

It has nothing to do with leaving stuff back at the motherland.

A more interesting question is: why do so many Greeks leave the motherland and go to the US, the UK, Germany, Austrlia?

From the outside view it looks like people of Reddit are unsatisfied with their government and so they destroy their own motherland in an attempt to overthrow said government.

But that statue, The Motherland Calls, wow!

> A sprawling bureaucracy—the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council—exists to ensure that distance from the motherland doesn't dull their patriotism.

Or that you are realy a BND officer and you are dong it for the motherland - The KGB posed as Neo Nazi's to recruit some German spies back in the day.

The first means keeping colonies, which are by definition "less" (less powerful, less important, less independent) than the "motherland".

When an Indian leaves the country to go west, he's made to feel like a traitor for leaving his "motherland".

Some social media posts are literally "buy stocks if you love our motherland."

Ironically, Goldberg's looks proved to be so irresistible that recently he was featured on the monument to the "Defenders of the Motherland" in Russia.

'Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals' by Patricia Lockwood 35.