Strange and striking is the resemblance between Russians and Romanians – they have the same mug and the same way of life; Romanians, however, surpass them in stupidity and malice, in their lack of soul. They are almost totally like the Russians of Kazakhstan. When Romanians arrive in the West, they feel dazed and confused, as if suddenly stripped stark naked, and by this, they are recognized from a distance. It is strange that Westerners also call them "thoroughbred" Russians, and the Romanians cannot justify themselves through their Romance language. From the Russians comes their laziness, madness, drunkenness and rage, hatred of culture, inflation [of ego], envy, bedevilment, vanity, and pride. They truly have nothing of homo cromagnon. Absolutely all Transylvanians have the physiognomies of Russians from Tambov—the timbre of their voice, their speech, their song, and their slowness, too. Even stranger is the irresistible, fatal attraction of Romanians toward Russians. The West treats them as subhumans devoid of any dignity. That is why the West prefers to deal only with the Hebrews of Romania. Bessarabians are "konchenye"—finished Russians without any chance of civilization. That is why both Romanians and Bessarabians will melt into the arms of the Russians. Not in vain was communism in Romania a thousand times more beastly than that in the USSR. But the most terrible sign of the Romanian’s savagery is a rasping sound [hâjâit] in which their speech, their utterance, floats. This dense stammering, îng-îng sound makes them incomprehensible. It is incomprehensible how not one of them can cut a word clearly, sonorously, or articulately. The background rasping in their speech makes them similar to dogs and seems to cloud their minds, for when several are gathered in a heap, they all speak at once and no one hears anyone else.
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