Monsieur le Président! Mes troupes, qui ont défilé devant vous, sont heureuses de pouvoir rendre hommage au chef très respecté d'un Etat ami et allié. Vous connaissez la sympathie que l’armée russe éprouve pour l’excellente armée française. Nos armées constituent une véritable fraternité d’armes. Nous pouvons constater avec satisfaction que cette force imposante n’est pas destinée à soutenir des aspirations agressives, mais au contraire à renforcer le maintien de la paix mondiale et la préservation de ces nobles principes qui favorisent le progrès et assurent le bien-être des nations. Je lève mon verre à la gloire et à la prospérité de la courageuse armée française!
Mr. President! My troops, which have paraded in front of you, are happy to have the opportunity to pay tribute to the highly respected head of a friendly and allied state. You know the sympathy that the Russian army has for the excellent French army. Our armies are a true brotherhood in arms. We may note with satisfaction that this imposing force is not intended to support aggressive aspirations, but, on the contrary, to strengthen the maintenance of world peace and the preservation of those lofty principles that promote progress and ensure the welfare of nations. I raise a glass to the glory and prosperity of the brave French army!
Monarch — a person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head, but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating to the status of his own head.
Russia is a continent disguised as a country, Russia is a civilization veiled as a nation.
America you don're really want to go to war.
America it's them bad Russians.
Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians.
The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take
our cars from out our garages.
Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our
auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations.
That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black niggers.
Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help.
America this is quite serious.
America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set.
America is this correct?
I'd better get right down to the job.
It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts
factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.
America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.
After the Soviet Union withdrew the Red Army from Europe and split into 15 nations, and Russia held out its hand to us, we slapped it away and rolled NATO right up onto her front porch. Enraged Russians turned to a man who would restore respect for their country. Did we think they would just sit there and take it? How did bringing Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into NATO make America stronger, safer and more secure? For it has surely moved us closer to a military clash with a nuclear power.
O Lord, you have given us mighty forests, boundless fields, the widest horizons, and we who live here ought really to be giants.
Translated from the Russian by Kathleen Cook
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