liberator

As the ANC’s appeal as liberator fades among younger voters with no memory of apartheid, opposition parties are closing in and vowing to deliver on promises that many feel have gone unfulfilled.

"We had Alexander the Liberator, Yaroslav the Wise, and we will have Vladimir the Underpants Poisoner."

It turns out that most people don’t want to be forced to be free, especially when that freedom means subservience to one’s supposed liberator.

One of Maria Callas’ most hair-raising roles was her Medea in Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 opera, which was an influence on Beethoven’s revolutionary “Fidelio,” thus helping usher in the Romantic-era ideal of a woman as liberator.

The airman was the left waist gunner on a B-24D Liberator called “Queen Marlene” when it was attacked by German air forces near Équennes-Éramecourt, France.