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There’s an old saying in Russia about Perfidious Albion, « If two brothers one morning suddenly attack each other, than an Englishman spent the night under their roof. » Vladimir Kornilov reminded Russians in recent years of another, cruder phrase, dating back to the Crimean War, in which the British and French allied with the Sardinian Italians and Turks but failed to defeat Russia, « The Englishwoman shits ».