"Communism was only successful in those countries where

  the traditional , ancestral peasant family did never split the father┬┤s legacy in

  order to divide it into the brothers , but rather as NORM ,

  the land was kept intact , in common use."


 This was the case in Vietnam and China , but not in Japan.
 Again , this ocurred in Russia , but not in Germany.



       Armed with this simple questions posed by a demographer who sets aside 

ideologies of our stupid recent past , Emmanuel Todd explains some of the deep 

antrophological structures of Europe.