Andrei Sakharov
Andrei Sakharov was a paragon of dissent in the last years of the Soviet Union. On the 15th anniversary of his birth, we look back at his life and work.
Boldly we wage the fight,
For the power of the Soviets,
And as one we’ll die,
Fighting for that.
Смело мы в бой пойдем
За власть Советов
И как один умрем
В борьбе за это.
When I was young, almost nobody took this old revolutionary song seriously anymore. During breaks in school (when the teacher was out of earshot) we would sometimes sing: “Boldly we wage the fight/For soup with potatoes/And will kill the cook/With a cafeteria spoon.”
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