He also warned against continued irredentism - advocating the acquisition of territory considered to have been German.
Italian irredentism succeeded in World War I with the annexation of Trieste and Trento.
He recommended the exchange of populations so as to create ethnically homogenous states and eliminate irredentism.
Ironically, by reifying minority identities, the concept of "minority rights" exacerbated irredentism.
A fifth irony is that forces of separatism and irredentism came to overshadow glasnost.
Here is this half a country, split right down the middle, a prey to every sort of irredentism.
They will be filled for our lifetime with a desire to return to their homelands, and irredentism is a very powerful political emotion.
