A Story for Children

By Batiushka for Ooduarere via The Saker blog

Once upon a time, there was a world where there were four Kingdoms. These were called the Kingdom of the North, the Kingdom of the East, the Kingdom of the South and the Kingdom of the West. Now the smallest Kingdom by far was the Kingdom of the West, which was only a tiny part of the whole. But it was by far the richest of the four Kingdoms. This was because it kept stealing things with guns and with cunning from the other three Kingdoms. But it turned out to be by far the stupidest Kingdom. This was because it loved itself so much that it could no longer see in front of its nose.

Now it all happened in this way.

First of all, the wizards of the Kingdom of the West created a nasty illness called Pestilence. They wanted to kill the people in the other three Kingdoms. The other three Kingdoms threw off the Pestilence. And because they were cowards, the rulers of the Kingdom of the West scared themselves and made themselves very ill and very poor instead.

Then the Kingdom of the West said: ‘We will start a War with the Kingdom of the North because that is the Kingdom that is the closest to us. Then we will be able to take all their lands and all their money. And in that way, we shall get back all the money we lost in our Pestilence and we will all be happy again’.

So the Kingdom of the West found a little prince in the Kingdom of the North, whose country was next to the Kingdom of the West. And they paid him and all the rich people there lots of money and sent them lots of guns to fight against the very big Kingdom of the North. And then the Kingdom of the West added, ‘To make sure we win, we will not buy any things from the Kingdom of the North anymore and so they will have no money, but we will be richer and richer.

However, made blind by their love for themselves, the Kingdom of the West had not seen that the Kingdom of the North was much bigger, much richer and much stronger than it was. And as well, the Kingdom of the North was helped by the Kingdom of the East and the Kingdom of the South. And those two Kingdoms very much wanted all the things the Kingdom of the North had to sell. So the Kingdom of the North sold all its things to the Kingdom of the East and the Kingdom of the South and became rich. Then the Kingdom of the North conquered the little prince, making his rich people run away, and took all the money and the lands of the little prince and broke all the guns that the Kingdom of the West had sent him.

Now the rich people in the Kingdom of the West were very angry at all this. And the people of the West did not want to suffer and give their money to the little prince so he could have lots of guns. And they were cold and hungry and did not want to suffer anymore. The people of the West were very sad because they did not have enough money to buy all the things they wanted from the Kingdom of the North, the Kingdom of the East and the Kingdom of the South.

And this was how the Kingdom of the West became poor. And, by the way, everyone in the world began laughing at the rich people in the Kingdom of the West and made fun of them because they had been so very stupid.

03 September 2022