Oh, you unthankful and ingrate descendants

Oh, you unthankful and ingrate descendants -
You bear the witness that his dream came true -
What Lenin has described in books and papers -
And yet you show that nothing's understood!

In the USSR, you were rejoicing:
In brotherhood, equality, no greed -
But horrors of the civil war are hurting -
And you condemned the path that Lenin took.

As if it's only Lenin who had caused it,
And not the age of tsarist terrorism,
Gendarmerie, which malice strangled the country,
Illiteracy and serf's slavery.

How I want to return you to those barracks -
How would you sing to the father - the king!
And Lenin gave at least common apartments -
And many people were grateful to him.

And from my hands I would hand you a splinter -
Why do you need light lamps - rejoice from wood!
Your working day would be without limits,
Since Lenin's decrees are nothing to you.

Where women were - without the right to study,
Where the class chaos has reigned by the king,
Endure further for the king and suffer,
Once you think fight - is cruel destiny.

If you don't see that counter-revolution
Is just retarding in last century,
Not seeing the Goal - you see the debris portion -
Then let the bitter life teach you from grief.

He gave to people the progressive system!
These conquests are completely on the blood
Of desperate people and strong fighters-heroes,
We would have lived aground otherwise.

The Chinese people honor their heroes!
And Enemies are not stealing their good,
That's why with great success they build it further,
And in the world their rise is to the gore!

Oh, you unthankful and ungrate descendants.
You don't appreciate eternal books
What has become acute today by Lenin
Since imperialism has powerful doom.

And I despise you for your stupid values.
To see the Epochs - inability,
You don't appraise those fighters sacrifices!
I would have thrown you back in century,

Where suddenly you would have met Nekrasov,
And Pushkin about fragments, and Shchedrin.
But probably you haven't read them either.
How bitter is such ignorance to me!

Where even gentle and airy Balmont
was brought by tsarism to a great revenge,
"Bird of Revenge" he left - the book of talion
With Prophecy the tsar will be displaced.

Where Mayakovsky howled the pain of people,
Pouring "the bags of tears" in his works!
Affects of revolutions - cruel killing  -
the history of logic - as it goes.

For inability of epoch thinking,
You didn't wish all-men prosperity.
Learn to connect the thread of different epochs
the fruits of revolution you have reaped!


Epilogue

And from myself I will add one more matter -
When here I meet - an anti-communist -
He's stingy, weak and fickle as a coward,
I'm bored and I'm not interested in him.

He's narrow-minded, and his gaze is shallow,
Above his ego - can't generalize,
They drown in concrete, private - and fall down,
From where you cannot raise them to the heights.

And when I find a poet who likes Lenin -
He's happy spirit and is full of vigor,
Wide as the light that spills the worlds with splendor
So confident and pleasing to the ear.

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