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Western Civilization rose up from the exploits of ancient Greece, 

the institutions of ancient Rome,

the rituals of Roman religion.

Then Western Civilization sank down into the muddy trenches of  worldwar destruction, when the assassination of one man set off a chain reaction of State-sponsored death and destruction on a level never before seen in history.

Then, having crawled out from the rubble of World War I, Europe rebuilt itself from the ash-heaps of Western Civilization, only to return, two decades later, to yet another abomination of desolation . . . all because of the depraved manipulations of one power-worshipping beast-man, whose demonic presence in history is represented by a disgusting arrogance, a tiny  friggin' moustache and a crooked cross upon which he hung his millions of innocent victims.

But that was eighty or ninety years ago.

Now, Western Civilization:

to be continued . . .

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