Boris Strugatsky. Sore point (Useless notes) (№ 452417)

For a true nationalist, the most important things are details, formalities, signs, the shape of your great-grandfather's ear, an archival record ... He loves to talk about selfless love for his people, but this is some kind of strange and scary love, smoothly and insensitively turning into hatred for a foreign people. And if "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", then nationalism is his first and favorite refuge.