Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. Family Affairs.

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Commentary to the song “A Dialogue in front of the Television”.

As the epigraph to this song, there can be used the words of Porphyry Ivanov, peace be upon him: “Poor people are we...”

Here comes to mind Gabdulla Tukay’s distich “Calmness in the House” (1910):

How to ensure calmness in the house? There should be a blind husband with a dumb wife.

The song was written in 1973.

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