Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. What I Hate.

Commentary to the song “What I Hate”.

This song can be supplemented by Gabdulla Tukay’s poem “Having wished to flee from sor­row and pain...” (1910).

The song was performed by Igor Kvasha in the play of the Sovremennik Theater “One’s Own Island” (1971).

The presented text is adapted from George Tokarev’s translation.

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