A song on a tank top In this video Anton from Kyiv, the soldeir of the 12th Kyiv Battalion, is singing a song, which is believed to have been very popular among the Soviet soldiers during the WWII - The Dark Night. In almost seventy years the song becomes popular once again. Let the Ukrainian dark night be over soon... Dark night, only bullets are whistling in the steppe, Only the wind is wailing through the telephone wires, stars are faintly flickering... In the dark night, my love, I know you are not sleeping, And, near a childs crib, you secretly wipe away a tear. How I love the depths of your gentle eyes, How I long to press my lips to them! This dark night separates us, my love, And the dark, troubled steppe has come to lie between us. I have faith in you, in you, my sweetheart. That faith has shielded me from bullets in this dark night... I am glad, I am calm in deadly battle: I know you will meet me with love, no matter what happens. Death is not terrible, weve met with it more than once in the steppe... And here it looms over me once again, You await my return, sitting sleepless near a cradle, And so I know that nothing will happen to me! The song translation by University of Pittsburgh, Department of Slavic Languages
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:12:35 +0000
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