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Once was the Red Empire

Vast and tall, Mighty Mishka

Land of equality for ones, Gulag camps for millions

Undoubtedly powerful, giant killing machine

Freedom dreams were treacherous for sleep talkers

Organized terror, kingdom of fear

Revelations by Soljenitsyn, 1973

Russia dreamed of Trotsky

Evil Stalin seized control for decades

Nice guy, Jack of all Trades

He rebuilt the vast country

With the bones of forced workers

Harvester of fears and disillusions

Wise men, lights of the first hours

Disappeared, flushed by Little People’s Father

Universal Sad Secret Republic

Great display of misery

Unidirectional Silly Slayer’s Reunion

Suffered so much, smiles deleted

Grim Reaper of Liberty

Race for space, race for powers

For the glory of Lenin’s truth

Whatever the cost, we continue

Faster, stronger, must go farther

Ecological nightmare, human, social disaster

Particles by millions, killing the hours

Kolyma, Chernobyl,

Making the meal of memory.

Cutting edge technology of yore now biohazard

We know you tried very hard

Unknown surprises, like the Box of Pandora

Only the sky have seen the wastes of this race

I have seen children with fins

Cancer Mutants from this disaster

I have seen babies with a third eye

The one who’ll judge you

Also the one by the nations around you

We defeated the fascists

By the way, expanding our web of power

Tentacles of terror spreading through the world

Our Vietcong were the Afghans

Poor men, only faith as a weapon

Chemical test bed, you poisoned the wells

Red hammer crucifying Mohammed

Fueled the rise of Bush’s rock band

Crazy Bin Laden and the Holy Taliban