Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. A Song about the Anti-Semites.

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Commentary to “A Song about the Anti-Semites”.

Versions of lines:

A version of lines 33 ‒ 34 for the up-to-date version of this song: There’s ’mongst them, respected      the fair sex Kapler, A translation version of lines 60 ‒ 64: I’m ready for pound-     ing, robbing and dumping, And I kick these kikes, and      save my blessed country!

“I kick these kikes, and save my dear Rossia!” is a paraphrase of the anti-Semitic slogan of the time of the Rossian Civil War “Beat kikes, save Rossia!”

The presented text is partly adapted from Stas and Margaret Porokhnya and George To­ka­rev’s translations.

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