Posted on Kadyrov’s Telegram channel on June 10, 2022.
Translated by Leo V.
My sidenote: If I had to name this poem, it would be Naïve Україна
Ukraine, Ukraine! What is the catch?
You are beautiful and naïve on the ruins of the epochs.
And now you are ruled by a mask of false goodness,
Those who burned Taras Bulba on the rapids near the Dnieper.
There are those that are so ridiculous – I’m not the only one who swears,
That following Hetman Mazepa, Rus’ was sold to the Swedes.
Or those, and then – more, who are with Petliura in shares,
Russian Kiev has offended Poland – in Deutschmarks, not in Rubles.
In those circles ugly freaks scurry around, in uniforms from the SS,
Their great-grandfathers at Brody [1944] found their worst end.
Here the Banderist demons are like a horde of nonhumans,
They burned our people alive in Odessa for the jubilant Maidan.
Here are those who vote in a hurry with their Ausweiss,
So that the residents of Donbass would come to a complete seam.
Ukraine, dearest mother, call your sons,
So that today, as before, Kiev would be taken with us again.
Do you remember, Ukrainian? As we walked shoulder to shoulder,
How they slurped from one bowl under a flickering candle.
Our grandfathers lived rotten, drank their bile before,
They gave their lives, they knew: the Motherland is one.
We walked to Berlin step by step in the damp footsteps of the enemy,
And under the arch of the Reichstag they became fraternized for the centuries.
Ukraine, Ukraine, what is the catch after all?
It’s a pity that you are naïve on the ruins of the epochs.
“The Motherland is one?”
Borders shift and disappear like the arbitrary imaginary lines that they are.
Would you fight and die for a sand castle? Why die for lines that dont really exist but in the mind?
Dont say “culture” is the reason. After all, “culture” is only born after you imagine there are borders, whether kinship, tribe or town.
All is dust.
Sorry, I prefer Kadyrov’s poem to yours.
I pity you.
All is not dust.
Sprit is forever.
That is the wisest of all knowledge, only the Tao is eternal
Come on! How can one exclude caring for one’s own? These are real people! If they are under threat, it is our duty to help. Period. That is existential.
Help must be provided both for natural and for man-made disasters. See https://thesaker.is/of-skirmishes-wars-and-parasites/
You must be one of the non-English (an ethnic group) Anglos, who are not ethnic groups. The people of Russia and a good part of Ukraine are of the Russian ethnicity, whose home is the “Motherland”.
The Russian Motherland borders are not physical – they are spiritual. And they are bounded only by the hearts and souls of true Russians everywhere. If you are Russian at heart, you are within the borders of the Motherland.
Yes, I am!!! Thanks!
@TGL “The Motherland is one?”
“State Sovereignty, Federation and Kant’s Cosmopolitanism” (vision for perpetual peace). The semblance comes from a shared belief that the consistent ravishing of conflict will provide a motivation for humanity to finally realize the common destruction caused by war and seek a truly lasting peace. It is through “common sense,” or in Kant’s terminology practical reason, that universal principles could be understood…
War and Peace :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzSS9hOUPz4
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Motherland is similar to your family. But most brainwashed people have been tough empty slogans.
All is dust… what kind of stupidity is this.
We all know we all will die, it does not change the fact that if someone hit your mother you hit that person to defence your mother.
That we all will die does not stop you to find a woman to love and create childrens.
That your childrens will die does not stop you to take care of them.
And that your Motherland may disappear in the future does not stop a healthy person to defence it. Because a stable and strong Motherland is in general the best defence and guarantee of a good stable life for your parents, your childrens and your beloved woman.
This stands true since the times of the Greek Polis to the nowadays Russia or China.
The current Western states, that dedicate all the time to f their own citizens are a new invention, and create citizens that believe that stupidity that your Motherland does not matter
He’s a democrat complaining about the mythical republican.
Democrat vs Republicans one and the same, both evil to their core whose only purpose is to line their own pockets, I wonder just how many Americans would rise up to defend their own country their own system which is rotten to the core too.
The Motherland raises you up from dust and gives you life, if you don’t take care of it … it spits you out. You are blow away like dust in the wind … like a homeless orphan wandering the desert for eternity.
All for one, and 1 for all.
You miss the point of the poem. He is trying to wake up the Ukrainians to the reality of dying needlessly and blindly for a wrong cause, misled by a duplicitous leader!
Many of the Ukrainian soldiers are ill-equipped, poorly trained, or unwilling & helpless recruits. Used as canon fodder by the clown and his puppet master. Is it not heartbreaking and deeply regretful that the mission of those soldiers and AFU is to eliminate fellow Ukrainians, who are no less citizens in Donbass? So wake up Ukraine from this suicide mission!
What an awesome poem. Soul stirring.
Culture can have rough physical borders, but it isn’t constrained, and the lines are often blurred when it comes to where cultures start and where they end. Culture has a dimension that is not spatial, they have history, i.e. time. Often also blurred in when the culture is prominent and when it is not. Never the less, your argument seems to miss the point of the poem.
@Alex: “your [@TGL] argument seems to miss the point of the poem.”
I think deliberately. Now that the Ukrainian Zionazi Oligarch army is undeniably losing, trolls are wailing: “Plague on both your houses!”
I am a confirmed Kadyrovist
I enjoy watching videos about man Kadyrov country and reading some of its history. Muslims yes but I have come to highly respect them and tneir culture. I’m actually jeoulous in ways. Speaking of the videos of the coutry if you have a chance to see notice how clean the cities are and how they have really come together after the terrible wars. God bless them.
Oh and I need to apologize to the moderators and the blog. I was very upset and used harsh words when one of tpmy comments censored. I apologize and ask for forgiveness.
God bless Russia, President Putin, Russian citizens, friends of Russia, my dear Russian friend and her family, all God fearing peoples everywhere.
Mothers of Ukraine don’t fret, we’ll bury you sons
In the fields of the Donbass where they were hoodwinked to come
We’ll lay down our arms, for now, as the Banderites run
Even an animal will bury its young
Mothers of Ukraine Great Satan came
Promised the world, yet your sons died in vain
Don’t let your husbands share the same fate
Bring them home now before it’s too late.
My faith is different.
My nation is different.
Yet I would call this man a brother in spirit.
I envy Russia, blessed with men such as Putin and Kadyrov.
Same.
Good poem; says a lot without saying it. Catches complex moods without fixating. Finds some light by going into dark places. Stares at the Gorgon steadily, and yet is not frozen into stone.
The Ukies love to claim they are the real “Russia”. They say that because Kiev was the Rus capital for a while (Novgorod was the first) they should be the only one to claim Rus. Here are a few maps showing ancient Rus. See how much of Ukraine today has of that land,and how much Russia has. And you will also notice that all the Novorussian areas weren’t even a part of Kieven Rus in those times. Ukraine has no ancient (or modern) true claim to that territory. Only under the Soviets was it ever included under an Ukrainian administration:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/392376186272701836/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Location_of_Kyivan_Rus.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Kingdom_of_Galicia_Volhynia_Rus%27_Ukraine_1245_1349.jpg
The Azov nazis paid the price:
18+ The Azov Battalion Turn to Dust at Azovstal
https://rumble.com/v18nuwb-18-the-azov-battalion-turn-to-dust-at-azovstal.html?fbclid=IwAR3LSk-tUx0WwlsOvJZY6lxvQe_gPSjqH15MJYFdiBU4obV9cCJtGAsgXJc
No shit!!!!
It’s a heartbraking.
This blog become more and more ridiculous.
Do you take your readers, no, Andreì’s readers(not yours) for Kadyrov sheerleaders?
Completly nuts.
Stop that please
You’re killing Andreï’s blog
@Darras !?
A poem reflects the soul. The Russian soul is infinite and Kadyrov feels it.
Reread this speech when Vladimir Putin attended a concert marking eight years since Crimea’s reunification with the Russia :
“We, the multi-ethnic nation of the Russian Federation, united by common fate on our land…” These are the first words of our fundamental law, the Russian Constitution. Each word has deep meaning and enormous significance.”
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/68016
Can you make your comment more clearer? are you anti kadyrov? if so why? do plz enlighten us
Sometimes it happens that commentators post a reaction as a knee jerk volley, rather than giving the matter, this time, the matter of a poem, some thought free of prejudice. Other times I note the odd post that mimics this for whatever reason, irony, to highlight trends of common thought, or outmoded ideas and so on. Having said that it also turns the undoubted ahem, raising of eyebrows this site occasions, to potential advantage. It’s also funny.
i saw this on a few telegram channels and thought it deserved some attention. one of the usa mercs captured. turns out hes a specialist ex iraq war veteran.
ok interesting stuff about one of the captured usa mercenary
https://mobile.twitter.com/talkrealopinion/status/1537120102654611457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
drueke in his younger days appears to be in the 74D MOD . this is the chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear specialists CBRN. he also wears the gold badge of US chemical corps, Elementus Regamus Proelium.
adds some intrigue to him just being a average joe adventure seeker although im no military guy to verify all this .
Beutiful poem. A call for sanity, in those who have lost their mind.
Victor,
Wonderful reply. Are you Russian? Your words now help me understand why I feel like I am Russian,but am not. So clearly righteous Russia gives itself to the world, even though I am in the belly of the beast, I am with the Russian people and their blessed President Putin. Thank you for your words Victor.
For those of us with natural borders like sea, rivers, mountain ranges, western Europeans, it is impossible to understand the vast Great Plains – Meyssan has a very interesting insight here :
“From the Carpathian Mountains to the Urals, there are no mountains. Consequently, Eastern Europe is a vast plain in which many peoples have passed and sometimes settled without the relief allowing to delimit the borders of their territory. Poland, Moldavia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and the European part of Russia are corridors of passage whose history is dominated by flows. Most of these states back onto a sea or a mountain. Only Belarus and Ukraine have no natural borders.”
https://www.voltairenet.org/article217210.html
Yes it’s true and the highest peak (With elevation of 329 metres above sea level) of this great European plain, which stretches from Spain to the Urals, is located in Wieżyca (Poland), in the historical region of Kashubia, some 40 kilometers southwest of Gdańsk. This top is covered by a forest which was the object of pagan cult of ancient Slavs.
Excuse me, the Waldaj hill (343 meters above sea level) in Russia is a little higher.
I’m sorry.
Mind the bump!
The European Plain or Great European Plain
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Plain?oldid=441942059
What a Beautiful Poem! Thank you.
I also want to thank you and your brave soldiers for fighting for this good cause. Slava Russia! Slava Chechenia!!
Nikolaj Gogol who was born in the Ukraine (at his time called New Russia) wrote a great novel about Taras Bulba amongst other good stories about his birthplace.
I remember going to see the 1962 version of Taras Bulba (with Yul Brynner in it) at the local movie theatre when it came out.
I was just a young kid at the time and it scared the …. out of me.
Poets are the true legislators, as Percy Shelley, yes from England, wrote :
‘A Defence of Poetry’ excerpt by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):
The most unfailing herald, companion, and follower of the awakening of a great people to work a beneficial change in opinion or institution, is poetry.
At such periods, there is an accumulation of the power of communicating
and receiving profound and impassioned conceptions respecting
man and nature. The persons in whom this power resides, may
often, as far as regards many portions of their nature, have little
apparent correspondence with that spirit of good of which they
are the ministers. But even whilst they deny and abjure, they are
yet compelled to serve, the power which is seated upon the throne
of their own soul. It is impossible to read the compositions of the
most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled
with the electric life which burns within their words. They measure
the circumference and sound the depths of human nature
with a comprehensive and all-penetrating spirit, and they are
themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations: for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age
Beautiful! It stirs the soul indeed!
It’s a good poem. I like it.
I think it’s not good for a president to be writing stuff like that during a war where there is so much death on both sides. He is obviously a little loose in the head (“loco”, maybe in a good sense overall); he smiles a lot too. He’s volunteering for things in a war, so he’s good for Russia. There are enough locos with Zelensky and company. Do you want to see them argue with each other? Not me. Bad poem too, the reader has to reconstruct the meaning not only because he is too far away. Thank you for the translation, good info.
Kadyrov is leading from the Front.and this earns respect. ( I can think of examples like the US Generals in Kasserine Pass or Anzio, who hid safely in their bunkers way behind the frontline). That Kadyrov, having organised his troops superbly. still has time to express a philosophical opinion in the form of a poem, does not make him ‘loose in the head’ but shows the good soul within him….
Poems can be easy or cryptic, to express thoughts. i understood his poem.
Percy Shelley disagrees. Even Plato, poet, philosopher, was well versed in War.
I read Plato sometimes and will post him in the cafe. Should you compare Plato with Kadyrov like this? Risky. Percy Shelley, Percy Shelley, I’m sure it’s someone from your country or London. Shoot, I don’t know. That’s how ignorant I am. A novelist, I think.
Your world is falling apart, not kadyrov’s and he is the furtherest thing from being loco. Your western leaders can be construed as being loco, but I know it is much deeper than that. They are ignorant idiots and just well paid servants that take the money and run after the public votes them out, replacing them with the same garbage.
Why stop at quoting Plato, why not God? In any case your masses know nothing about literature and real history.
Preach to the already controlled.
Preaching to the others is blowing in the wind.
I do think that healthy criticism of a poem is warranted, it is an art form after all, to which literary criticism or appraisal rightfully belongs.
The poem has some very evocative imagery, recalling history of the Ukraine, and the poets thoughts. Translation is an art as well, and to render the Russian words of poetry into English is very challenging, so well done Leo V, but it may be of a rather more prose type rendering than perhaps sounds in the original ?
I am presuming that Ramzan Kadyrov did not write the poem, perhaps it is an amalgamation by another writer, or poet, that was even made for him to read ? It would be interesting to have some background information anyhow.
As Percy Shelley wrote : and they are themselves perhaps the most sincerely astonished at its manifestations: for it is less their spirit than the spirit of the age
Let’s see – for an Army fighter to compose, in the middle of the most intense warfare anyone has ever seen recently, is the spirit of the age….
“In any case your masses know nothing about literature and real history.”
You’re insulting a lot of people there…again.
Everyone, please shut this conversation down. Getting too personal. Mod.
Nazism has no ideology, everything is for money. Some are making a lot of money on Ukrainian blood.
Beautiful, well written poem with melodic meter.