ABSTRACT
Powerful forces exert enormous pressure on the Intermarium's political, social, cultural, and economic life. Since the liberation, those forces have been post-Communism, nationalism, and globalism. Post-Communism is Communism transformed. Post-Communism shrewdly eschews any ideological labels, preferring moral relativism and nihilism instead. Overtly and covertly, the Intermarium grapples with the legacy of post-Communism. It also tackles problems, such as the global recession and cultural changes. Nationalism denotes social organization according to the idea of the unity of the language, geography, culture, religion, and history. Nationalism reflects the belief that common tradition, institutions, and faith translate into a community of shared interests. Globalism is confusing hybrid of the traditional and the new issuing from the West. Globalism offers both Western and anti-Western elements all wrapped in one and arriving from the same Western destination, confusingly and enticingly, a daunting project to disentangle for a shell-shocked survivor of Soviet totalitarianism.
