[Destro]

From the Venetians to the Franks to the Germans that snuck in Lenin. The West breeds parasites.

[eleni121]

"...Venetians to the Franks to the Germans..."

I kinda figured you were talking about the HRE and its vestiges...not Western Civilization which after all is a creation of Christendom and Byzantium - but I wasn't sure. No argument there...they stabbed Christendom in the back and let the fellowhip rot for hundreds of years under the Muslim yoke.

[struwwelpeter]

From the Venetians to the Franks to the Germans that snuck in Lenin. The West breeds parasites.

Crazy from the squabbling,
Stumbling like cripples,
We'd bring back the Varyags,
But they've run off to the Greeks.

We are being boiled in a strange compote,
Where they look you straight in the eye and lie,
Where everyone is individually against,
But together - decisively for.

When the country is one -  it's a family,
Everyone lives for love and gets along;
Tell me, who is your friend, and I
Will say, why you will be imprisoned.

Russia will go into the centuries
Under the battle of government competitors
As a country of embezzlers, saints, assholes,
Drunkards and blessed talents.

-- Igor Guberman, Soviet poet and dissident