Vasile Benescu reacted on Friday evening to the statements of the vice-president of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, who said that “Romanians are not a nation.”

“Romanians are not a nation,” declares the hate-choked voice of Nothing at the heart of the vicious propaganda. Otherwise, a great founder,” Benescu writes.

He also warns about how Romanians get fired up with such statements:

“Resolute patriot, exclusive nationalist, Romanian to the core”, of course, will take a stormy position from the highest podium, breaking this insult, these heavy, unheard words. It cannot be otherwise. We also know this from Caragiale: “God forbid you attack his Romania from any distance, because the Romanian mob here is ready to crush you.”

“Romanians, as you know, are not a nation, but a way of life. It seemed that nothing could surprise us anymore. European leaders are idiots, weaklings, worthless. But no, we were given another reason. They want to return the gold to Romania,” Medvedev wrote in a post on his Vkontakte page, Russia’s equivalent of Facebook.

Medvedev claims that “Romanians are not a nation” is a quote from the Russian film Brother 2 (2000) by the late director Oleksii Balabanov.

The former president and prime minister of Russia also reports in his post that the Soviet government nationalized Romania’s treasury in 1918 for Romania’s “misbehavior,” and then our country refused to “pay its debts” to the “Soviet Empire.”

“Romania agreed to it and then got us to waive reparations for the Nazi period during World War II. Well, now the appetite of various idiots in the European Parliament has revived again,” he continued his message.

“Well, I really don’t know how to respond to such insolence. The EU stole $300 billion worth of assets from Russia and demands the gold be returned to Romania,” Medvedev also noted, referring to Russian assets frozen by the EU bloc.

“You have nothing to say in Russian, only: go to hell,” Medvedev concluded his address on Friday.