Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. In a Faraway Kingdom.
Commentary to the poem “Spring waters went away...”
The spring waters mean the waters of the Flood, and the frights mean today’s rulers and persons of dominant influence — not all, but a good many of them.
And it is pertinent to quote here Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s words: “Quae fuerant vitia mores sunt.” (“What had been vices are the customs of today.”)