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Some cars—especially BMWs, Audis, or Volkswagens, bore bumper stickers that read as an exhortation to attack: ON TO BERLIN, AGAIN! That militancy—Russians had defeated Nazi Germany and now use their automobiles to relive the victory—also displayed deep insecurity and evoked a sad, telling irony: they prize German automobiles above their own.
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Nina Khrushcheva (In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones)