"[A]n anthem is a prayer sung by people worshiping their country... every nation must have this prayer..."
— National anthem

January 1, 1970

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Sergey Mikhalkov, as quoted in Independent on Sunday (14 February 1993) and Banal Nationalism (1995), by Michael Billig, p. 86