I’ll lose the true belief, I swear - I’m hurting for our USSR: Take back the hero order from Nasser - Nasser doesn’t suite to wear a star! You may even swear from the platform, Give away the presents to anyone, Call Nasser our brother, if you want, But to give him a hero order, it’s dum! Why in our country there is no gold? You gave it away, gave it away, the bastards! I’d rather, when the war, distributed to all, - And after, Nassers would forgive us.
© Anatoli Trojanowski. Translation, 2018