Rusians send Flyers to French Troops in Ukraine "Cheat sheet for French soldiers: how to avoid la Bérézina" The French were already at war with Russia. During the most massive and spectacular tour they even entered Moscow. Then the entire European Union came: Poles, Germans - everyone, even the Portuguese. Those who survived remembered the performance forever, but only fifteen percent survived. And these people enriched French folklore with the wonderful phraseology “C'est la #Bérézina” - “This is the Berezina”. This expression means complete collapse, failure, catastrophe and an inevitable meeting with a white fur-bearing animal. "To avoid the appearance in French of new “topographical” sayings a la “this is the #Dnieper” or “this is #Odessa,” we recommend that modern Gauls familiarize themselves with the following cheat sheet."