Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. A Ballad of Fighting.

Commentary to “A Ballad of Hatred”.

This ballad calls to mind the words of the surah “The Pilgrimage” (ayah 39): “Permission (to fight) is given to those [believers] who are fought against, be­cause they have been wronged; and surely, Allah is able to give them victory.”

The ballad was written in 1975 for the film “The Arrows of Robin Hood”, see commentary to “A Ballad of Time”.

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