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The fighters of the underground Resistance movement were heroic, but they were a tiny minority, a few of them conservative patriots like de Gaulle, most of them socialists and communists, and also a handful of refugees from Eastern Europe.
In June 1999, Pope John Paul II visited his homeland for the eighth time as Pope, and he was again received by enormous crowds, proof once again that Poland’s committed Catholics and fervent patriots had survived the Communist years with their faith and pride intact.
His operas’ romantic humanism inspired fellow patriots, who saw in the Nabucco Freedom Chorus a positive call to action.
As the national capital, Ottawa is the inevitable butt of jokes against its federal government bureaucracy, but patriots revere its parliament and museums preserving Canada’s cultural treasures.
Enthusiastic war-supporters like D’Annunzio, who captured the popular imagination by flying over Vienna to drop propaganda leaflets, were acclaimed as patriots, while democrats and pacifist republicans were dismissed as defeatists.