Here is a picture of the very bourgeois Austrian Hercules squaring off with the true symbol of Klagenfurt, zum lundwurm.
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3 comments:
Hercules looks like Stalin!
Or maybe Vonnegut.
Is this a good dragon, or a bad dragon?
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