Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Interrupted Flifht.
Commentary to the song “No myself here, I’ve left Mother Rossia!..”
It is pertinent to quote here Gaius Petronius Arbiter’s words: “Si quis vitiorum omnium inimicus rectum iter vitae coepit insistere, primum propter morum differentiam odium habet; quis enim potest probare diversa?” (“If a man dislikes all vices, and proceeds to tread a straight path in life, he is hated first of all because his character is different; for who is able to like what differs from himself?”)
Shortly before his death, Vladimir Vysotsky said about this song: “I wrote it a long time ago, when there was just the usual burst of gossip.”
The song was written in 1970.