I don’t need a ticket for the arriving train and I’m already hugging from the running
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Veteran from the Nineteen Years' War at the end of the twentieth century.
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He is a boy with a face, he is with me as with a father, he is walking along the Arbat.
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It’s more convenient for us on foot, he was the best friend of my brother who didn’t come.
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He was the best friend of my brother who did not come.
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And about who the brother was, and about jalalamat, and about the target on the radar screen
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He is glad to tell, but the alarm sounded on the Kremlin Veliky Ivan.
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The copper bell beat as if it was chopping the sky, as if the sounds of doves were flying up.
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The sunset was charred, and the advertising Arbat was reflected on the white medal.
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The sunset was charred, and the advertising Arbat was reflected on the white medal.
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And he said in anguish: “How beautiful it is in Moscow, and everywhere you look there are pedestals,
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Pedestals in a row, well, but for the guys there are only rocks, only rocks.
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If there is a war somewhere, then it is someone else's fault, we will rewrite it on ourselves."
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He was older by fate not by a year, but by the battle, from which my brother did not come out.
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He was older by fate not by a year, but by the battle, from which my brother did not come out.
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I don’t need a ticket for the arriving train and I’m already hugging from the running
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Veteran from the Nineteen Years' War at the end of the twentieth century.
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Whether I was passing through or not, I looked in the wake, and the carriage swayed like a cripple.
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For a nineteen-year-old war veteran, I wished for the twenty-first century.
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He was older by fate not by a year, but by the battle, from which my brother did not come out. |