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And then our dad was hit by a bullet.

Our mother wept a lot,

But the kids returned herto reasonable ways.

She did not put him in the grave,

But God will forgive her sin.

And once she had a thought

while sitting by the window.

What if they asked the draft commission?

About him. A miracle happened.

They had an answer.

The state decided it should find

The deathbed of the father

and inform.

The information was not easy to obtain

But suddenly we knew that it was

the Nevelsky district, the Milynki village

In a communal grave.

The life jumpstarted,

joyous days arrived.

At last the family received a chance

to see theirfather's grave.

Its women will surely weep,

its men will soberly drink

Forthe souls of soldiers who died

to bring to us this long-lasting peace

And it is high time to leave

and to finish this long ballad

Comrades, when will we board the truck

and arrive to ourfather's side?

And the day of departure comes

and the family waits for a car.

Let's drink, my fiends, before we start

the trip to the faraway place.

When the car arrives, it will be too late,

the road will take its toll.

I do not know what we'll see

when Kostya Kaurov stops at ourfather's grave.

Thank you dad,

We are not to blame

that you prematurely died.

Oh, if you could stand and see

All of you kids and grandsons.

Thanks, Dad, you saved the world

And perished at your best age.

But you remain with us in our dreams,

in your kids you remain with us.

That's all.

That's all of my ballad.

Thanks.

- Did you like it?

...Yes, very much.

Here you are, girls.

We are having a nice time.

What should we do further

with these Asians?

What really?

What should we do? Theirfamilies are huge.

They'll arrive in hordes like locusts.

- And they'll press us outa here.

- And this will be the smallest trouble.

What huge families they have.

All of them have big golden teeth.

Sh*t, and they stand for each other.

Yesterday these motherfuckers sat

on the benches in four rows.

Yes, darling, these folks will not let

us open our mouths

And all of our militia

will tiptoe around them.

Yes, darling, have you seen knots

on his belt... here and there?

Do you know how many coins are sewn in there?

That's how they pay the militia off,

And ourfolks just keep talking sh*t and get convicted.

Where will we get the gold?

F*** him, come on!

The judge does not talk to us,

we are earthly worms.

The officials arrived, prepared

everything forthem... rooms and all this sh*t.

And tell us:

"Get outa here to the f***ing hell".

And what jackasses serve up there.

We went to the court and we got it again.

They say he had a stroke,

he needs a doctor.

We went home,

then came again

Then they say he needs an interpreter.

And the court hearing...

He was not guarded by the militia, but by the military.

And the terrorist feels OK

walks around with a sachet

With medicines.

And our Russian con will not get such a sachet.

- We are not afraid of them.

- Are you serious?

Yes, they'll come in hordes.

Burn theirfucking houses down

so that they wouldn't exist any more.

So that they wouldn't live here and would quit

to their native land and f*** it up the way they want.

- Girls, we'll get convicted.

- No way.

They have no power over us

If anything, we'll address Fedor.

F*** them.

I have both some kerosene and some diesel fuel.

And some gasoline.

I'll ignite the stuff and let it burn.

Here it is,

ten gallons or more.

Girls, f*** them.

Let us sing our song.

What are you moaning about?

What are you moaning about?

Everything got burnt down.

Everything. And our papers too.

And our blankets. Everything.

It was a good house. What a pity!

Now what? You are alive, your kids are alive.

And spit on the house. Take

Anna's house.

Thank you, thank you, old ladies.

When I was at home, I had everything.

I had a ram, and a hen, I had everything.

I could be hospitable to guests.

And now I can not. Do you understand?

If our Lord permits, everything will be OK.

I think we'll set things straight. We'll have everything.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Let's go.

I took yourfatherto my house.

He'll be warm. Do not grieve!

Anything may happen.

Sleep. Sleep.

Will you go?

Let's go.

Oh, my sufferer.

Let me help you take off your boots.

Take off your hat.

Take off yourtrousers.

Lie down, lie down.

The money is sewn in everywhere.

And what a pretender!

My Asian genie.

Why are you screaming? Why are you screaming?

Your devil will not get anywhere.

ljust stroked it.

Run, run around, cool it down.

Mikolka!

Have you done this?

Have you set this house on fire?

Do not refuse it.

You smell of kerosene.

Have you had any second thoughts, bastard?

Where will these people live during winter months?

Are you mad?

As if we had had few grieves without this arson.

You know my hand...

We all will beat you now.

You'll remember!

Go home.

And take this to them. Go! Run!

Run!

Stop your unit!

What's up, ma'am?

Eh? I did not get it.

Give a few soldiers to me

to disassemble that house.

Where will I take the soldiers from?

We are exercising, my dear.

- And afterthe exercises?

- Afterthe exercises.

The house overthere on the slope.

Our God will not forgive you, old one.

Afunin, 20 degrees to the right.

Do you see the house on the slope?

Target it and fire.

If you miss, you'll serve two extraordinary duties.

And you, ma'am!

Ma'am!

Move to the side.

Charge! Fire!

That's all, ma'am, go gatherthe logs.

I think they do not need any sawing.

Thanks, Fedor.

Attention!

Follow me in a column, march!

Thanks.

We all keep guessing

what he is building overthere.

- We came to look at what you are doing.

- You mean this...

This will be an electric power station.

- Will we have this electricity?

- Yes, you will.

The other people took everything they could from us,

and the nature will give to us everything we need.

It is time to separate ourselves from the state.

It's cut us off, hasn't it?

And we'll cut it off as well.

The electricity has been cut off for ages here

as well as the radio.

Are we going to

live like cavemen, eh?

What for?

We'll set up the electricity first...

And think about the cattle later.

We'll set up a small farm.

Eh? Are you going to be a shepherd, Mikola?

- No, a chief veterinarian.

- Precisely.

And everything will be OK, old ladies.

Do you remember as the saying goes in yourtales?

We'll live along and earn more goods.

Earn more goods!

Exactly!

Ok, will we live to see this?

Fenya! Fenya! Where are you?

I'm here, here.

- Gala, is that you?

- Yes, yes, me.

What do you want?

Please, darling, pour some oil to me.

Oh, Lord, is this so pressing?

- Well, darling, what a pressing need.

- Yes, urgent.

What urgent?

I'm running out of oil as well

And have no money to buy it.

- Hello.

- As-salam Allah am!

I'm running out of oil and money too.

I do not know if there will be any pension this month.

Fedor says this month

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