Eastern Roman

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“Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets ... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich. Over all this territory, which with the Soviet Union included, would be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend.”
—Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945)

“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)