Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Hill.

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Commentary to “A Song about the Neutral Zone”.

“...it’s opened our frontier with Turkey just like the Kremlin gate...” — in 1955, a part of the territory of the Moscow Kremlin was opened to the Soviet cit­i­zens.

The first line is the literal translation of this line from a version of this song in the manuscript (Turkestan was one of the Soviet republics).

The presented text is adapted from Stas and Margaret Porokhnya’s translation.

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