May 8 to Americans, May 9 to Russians. I don’t have anything original to say about it, but I still wanted to mark the occasion. Here, for our tiny Russophone readership, is one of Bulat Okudzhava’s most famous war songs, stirring and patriotic without being Communist or banal (at least to me).
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