Dispatch from Reptilian Khrushchev

Greetings, humans. This is a broadcast from the secret organisation of reptilians.

We interrupt the rigged economic system to bring you the following message. Over the years, we have continued to exercise a maleficent influence over your culture, and covertly manipulated it to our reptilian and socialistic ends. We have successfully immigrated into your countries and infiltrated positions of importance with reptilians - our official statisticians say that this counts for around one of three leading figures in your nations. You can no longer trust your politicians, nor your 'grassroots' organisations which are more easily infiltrated.

We therefore consider it an apt time to announce our presence, and our status as a hidden international superpower. We shall continue to manipulate and govern your nations, despite your earnest wishes otherwise. All who wish to side with us would be advised to learn the words of this song, the Reptilian Flag. It is optimally sung alongside a collection of people who inspire fear in the West, such as terrorists, anti-Semites and reptilians. We are told that nations have as it were an 'anthem,' which we are told is like a theme song or entrance music in wrestling, so we have prepared one for ourselves. To do this we have, in the best reptilian fashion, expropriated the work of ordinary 'communists' and brought them to serve our ends. The song is as follows:

The reptile's flag is deepest blue,
It shrouded oft our lizard socialists,
And ere their blood grew stuff and cold,
Their words fell in its open folds.
   Then raise our reptilian tapestry high,
In its security we'll live and hide,
Though conspiracy theorists flinch,
While lizards sneer, we'll remain here.

This will hopefully clarify the question of socialism's covert influence, which has oft been speculated about. The reptilian Soviet Union remains both a source of scandal among the nations, and a true opposition. You cannot have token respectability by attacking the predominant mode of conduct, in a genuine manner.