73 – Russia in WW2 (and why Victory day is important)

Lyrics in Russian:

От героев былых времён

Не осталось порой имён.

Те, кто приняли смертный бой,

Стали просто землёй и травой.

Только грозная доблесть их

Поселилась в сердцах живых,

Этот вечный огонь,

Нам завещанный одним,

Мы в груди храним.

 

Погляди на моих бойцов,

Целый свет помнит их в лицо.

Вот застыл батальон в строю,

Снова старых друзей узнаю.

Хоть им нет двадцати пяти,

Трудный путь им пришлось пройти.

Это те, кто в штыки

Поднимался, как один,

Те, кто брал Берлин.

 

Нет в России семьи такой,

Где б не памятен был свой герой,

И глаза молодых солдат

С фотографий увядших глядят.

Этот взгляд, словно высший суд,

Для ребят, что сейчас растут.

И мальчишкам нельзя

Ни солгать, ни обмануть,

Ни с пути свернуть.

 

Lyrics in English:

Nothing is left of the heroes of bygone days.

Or names sometimes.

Those who sacrificed their lives,

Became just ashes and dust,

Only their formidable courage

Settled in the hearts of the living

This eternal flame was bequeathed

For only us

And we will keep it in our hearts.

 

Look at my soldiers,

The whole world remembers their faces.

Here stood a battalion in line-up.

I can recognize my old friends again.

The hard times they had to go through.

Though they were only twenty-five years old (or less then)

They were those, who with bayonets in their hands,

Stood as a single entity.

Those who took Berlin.

 

There is not some family in Russia,

who has not remembered their heroes.

And the eyes of young soldiers

Are looking at us from faded pictures

They look at us, and it is like the High Court

For the guys that are growing now.

And the boys cannot lie. They cannot deceive

And they have no way to turn away.

 

Victory day video on YouTube – https://youtu.be/Qgfp4zLgVTw

 

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