December 11 is the 345th day of the year. 20 days remain until the end of the year.
“A Communist system can be recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes the political opponent.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Born today
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918, Russian novelist, historian
Alain de Benoist, 1943, French philosopher and political thinker
"The greatest challenge of our time is the struggle against the dissolution of all identities in a globalized world."
Alain de Benoist
Observances
Establishment of Kurdish Women's Union (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Indiana Day (US)
National Tango Day (Argentina)
Pampanga Day (Pampanga province, Philippines)
Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. (Burkina Faso)