| Sanka Kotov traveled half of Europe and ended the war in Berlin.
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| Mended with medical battalions three times, he met the long-awaited spring.
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| He went from the gates of his Narva to the alien Brandenburg Gate,
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| And he carried on the shoulder straps of sergeants everything that Sankin rattles the people with.
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| In three stripes - Leningrad glory, Petrograd fury and pain,
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| Petersburg pride of power under fire he carried with him.
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| Sanya fought for the tears of his beloved, for the Summer Garden buried in the ground,
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| For your beloved city, the anthem, for your beloved Leningrad.
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| Sometimes, in silence in the clearing, before the fight, to become even angrier,
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| Sanya Kotov recalled the Fontanka, how he raced along it in a boat.
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| And a storm wave rose, and the machine gun beat without a miss,
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| And the golden star on his chest lifted the soldiers to their full height.
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| One night a guy from the Volga and a guy from the Neva became friends,
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| So that in the morning, waving the clock, disperse in their trenches.
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| Sanya's comrades got lost - neither to say nor describe with a pen:
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| From Barnaul, from Odessa, from Ryazan - you can’t remember and count everyone.
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| But having paid for everyone with interest, he returned home with a victory,
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| The famous Leningrad warrior, like his city, is young again.
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| And he is glad that everything is in order, in spite of the police posts
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| The guys on the Middle Slingshot from slingshots hit sparrows.
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| The guys on the Middle Slingshot from slingshots hit sparrows. |