O model democracy of our forefathers! To allow itself to be dragged about and torn apart without a whimper of protest! To tamely bend its neck beneath the yoke and bind its descendants in the fetters of a millennium of s*****y! O cut it out already, with those paeans sung of the democracy of the ancient Slavs! Stop shedding those tears over the sufferings that our nation underwent at the hands of the barbarian Asian hordes and express, rather, a righteous repulsion to the weakness, the recklessness and the helplessness of our nation! The democracy of the ancient Slavs, as recalled by Procopius, was nothing more than the initial, undeveloped state of our nation’s childhood, but we did not remain children, after all. Although the Slavs were oppressed and ground underfoot on all sides, and th
