Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Nature Reserve.
Commentary to the poem “The obstacles we have are begotten by our age...”
The meaning of this poem is obvious: the dogs symbolize the savages coming to Rossia from Transcaucasia and Central Asia (and also their offspring), who act much worse than dogs. These savages have posed a great danger to the peoples inhabiting Rossia, and since our present-day government does not pay attention to it, the only way out of this situation is to form a people’s volunteer corps of those willing to become “dog catchers”, and, of course, to change this anti-popular government.
In Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” (1894), these are the Bandar-log, and here is their road-song:
Here we go in a flung festoon, Now you’re angry, but — never mind, Here we sit in a branchy row, Now we’re going to — never mind, All the talk we ever have heard Let’s pretend we are... never mind, Then join our leaping lines that scumfish through the pines, |
The Red Dog in his “The Second Jungle Book” (1895) also symbolize those savages.
And the author of this publication, who has firsthand knowledge of them, joins the poet in saying, “Hail to the dog catchers!”
In 2022, there appeared in Rossia the Army of Defenders of the Fatherland (this site is in Russian) — an organization of unity of the people and the army, which is aimed to bring order to the country, what includes the liberation of our Homeland from the dominance of ethnic criminals united in diasporas. I would also like to draw the readers’ attention to the Russian Community and to the Telegram channel “The Multinational” (this site and this channel are in Russian).
The words
“Thus, for example, as the earth’s owner, you |
are an allusion to Vasily Lebedev-Kumach’s “A Song about Our Earth” (1936), here are lines from it:
From the capital to any corner, |
It is pertinent to quote here Joseph Stalin’s words from his Report to the XVII Party Congress on the work of the Central Committee of the A.U.C.P. (b.) (1934): “Our foreign policy is clear. It is a policy of preserving peace and strengthening trade relations with all countries. The U.S.S.R. does not think of threatening anyone, much less attacking anyone. We stand for peace and defend the cause of peace. But we are not afraid of threats and are ready to respond with a blow to the blow of the warmongers. Those who want peace and seek business ties with us will always find our support. And those who will try to attack our country will receive a crushing rebuff, in order to teach them not to stick their pig’s snout in our Soviet vegetable garden.”
The poem was written in 1972.