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I grew up in the Leningrad blockade,
But I didn't drink or go out back then.

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I saw the burning of the bombed-out food warehouses,
And I stood in line for a bit of bread.

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Brave citizens!
And what were <i>you</i> doing back then,
When our city wasn't even counting its dead?

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You were eating bread with caviar,
While I was using for cigars
Cigarette butts off the platform, half mixed with God knows what.

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The birds didn't even fly from the frost,
And the thief didn't have anything to steal,

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My parents that winter were taken by the angels,
And all I cared about was not falling down.

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We were up to here
With the hungry and the dystrophic --
We were all starving, even the prosecutor.

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And you, in the evacuation,
Were reading the news
And listening to the Informbiuro on the radio.

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The blockade got long, too long,
But our people crushed our enemies --

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And now we're living snug as a bug in a rug,
Except that the cops keep getting in the way.

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I'm telling you gently:
Good citizens with your neighborhood watch badges!
Keep your filthy paws out of my soul!

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As for my private,
Unpatriotic life --
The organs and trade unions already know all about it.