A selected history of Central and Eastern European geopolitics since the 30 Years War, in rhyme

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The Russians, the Prussians, the Hessians and Hussars
The Sarmatic Plain is for fighters and not lovers

Succession and Seven, Habsburg-Hohenzollern
Silesia, Great Northern, Partition, Napoleon

Vienna restores what was Corsican-stolen
Tsars build an empire in the in the Balkans and Poland

‘48 come the nations, aristos fight back
West into to Alsace along iron track

Confederation then Empire, Klein oder Groß
Serbian hospitality falls short as a host

Central Powers, Entente, peasants come off the benches
The Whites, the Reds, the Bolshies, the Menshes

The Axis, the Allies, the Treaty, the Pact
Tito and Hoxha, Ben-Guiron, Sadat

FRG, DDR, USA’s GDP
Finlandizing with tanks, Checkpoint Charlie

Solidarność, the Pope, mujaheddin, the Umma
Gorbachev, Yeltsin, shelling the Duma

New World Order, federal Europe, R2P, IMF
History stops and restarts, repeating itself

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