{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "A selected history of Central and Eastern European geopolitics since the 30 Years War, in rhyme", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/162769110358/", "html": "<p>The Russians, the Prussians, the Hessians and Hussars<br/>\nThe Sarmatic Plain is for fighters and not lovers</p><p>\n\nSuccession and Seven, Habsburg-Hohenzollern<br/>\nSilesia, Great Northern, Partition, Napoleon</p><p>\n\nVienna restores what was Corsican-stolen<br/>\nTsars build an empire in the in the Balkans and Poland</p><p>\n\n\u201848 come the nations, aristos fight back<br/>\nWest into to Alsace along iron track\n</p><p>\nConfederation then Empire, <em>Klein oder Gro\u00df\n</em><br/>Serbian hospitality falls short as a host\n\n</p><p>Central Powers, Entente, peasants come off the benches\n<br/>The Whites, the Reds, the Bolshies, the Menshes\n</p><p>\nThe Axis, the Allies, the Treaty, the Pact<br/>\nTito and Hoxha, Ben-Guiron, Sadat\n</p><p>\nFRG, DDR, USA\u2019s GDP<br/>\nFinlandizing with tanks, Checkpoint Charlie\n</p><p>\nSolidarno\u015b\u0107, the Pope, mujaheddin, the Umma<br/>\nGorbachev, Yeltsin, shelling the Duma</p><p>\nNew World Order, federal Europe, R2P, IMF<br/>\nHistory stops and restarts, repeating itself </p>"}