Land lures Russians

by Fred E. Foldvary

Once again we conquer lands, we’ll sing the same old song.

Oh the Russian spirit just cannot go wrong.

As we march through Georgia we are all a thousand strong

Russian troops are marching through Georgia!

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Hurrah! Hurrah! Bring the rouble here!

Hurrah! Hurrah! Just like Soviet years!

We will be triumphant from Moscow to Tblisi,

We will protect all the Russians!

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They started it, you know, by shooting at our troops.

South Ossetian people were left hanging in the loops.

They want to be in Russia, not in Georgian coops.

That’s why we’re marching through Georgia!

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How Ossetians cheered when they heard us marching here,

How even the potatoes in the ground rose up and sprouted ears!

How the nasty Georgies cannot ever match our might,

As we goose-step through Georgia!

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Putin says we are at war, and Medvedev agrees.

They could have had joint sovereignty,

but greed for land prevails.

If Kosovo can break away, why not Ossetia?

Russians are not to be fooled with!

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So we made a big invasion with Russian brawn and brains

What is Georgia anyway, a caboose that U.S. trains?

To Georgia in NATO, this is our big response.

That’s why we’re rushin’ through Georgia!

This article first appeared in the Progress Report, www.progress.org. Reprinted with permission.

Dr. Fred Foldvary teaches economics at Santa Clara University and is the author of several books: The Soul of Liberty, Public Goods and Private Communities, and the Dictionary of Free-Market Economics.