Russia is waging a disgraceful war on Ukraine.     Stand With Ukraine!
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Ой, да то не волки воют за околицей -
Это вьюга затянула песню свою.
Ты не плачь, сыночек, ты успокойся,
Баю-баю, баю, баюшки-баю,
Баю-баю-баю, баюшки-баю.
 
Злобной вьюги зря боишься ты, сыночка,
Просто слишком мал ещё ты и душою чист.
Есть у нас страшнее враг, моя кровиночка,
Этот враг, сыночек, - укронацист!
 
От него, проклятого, все наши невзгоды,
Если бы не он, - могли бы жить-не тужить.
Очень жаль, Ванюша, что тебе лишь три года,
И не можешь ты пойти укропов крошить.
 
Баюшки-баю, баюшки-баю,
Ничего нет лучше смерти в бою,
Ничего нет лучше смерти в бою,
Баю-баюшки-баю!
 
А твой средний брат стал, Ванюша, предателем,
Боже, его грешного спаси и прости!
Не послушал, Вань, ни отца он, ни матери
И специалистом стал каких-то айти.
 
Его не отмолишь никакими молитвами,
Он теперь в Европе у сатрапа в плену.
Коротает ночи там, небось, с содомитами
И не в Бога верует, а в сатану.
 
Баю-бай, баю-бай,
Все враги подохнут, а мы попадём в рай.
Все враги подохнут, а мы попадём в рай,
Баю-бай, баю-бай.
 
А братик твой старший ушёл по контракту,
Родину не продал за латте и чизкейк,
Постоял за други своя и за правду,
А что плохое пишут про него – это фейк.
 
А теперь героем воротился обратно,
Целых девять месяцев страну защищал.
Скоро мы ему установим оградку
И красивый памятник – мэр обещал.
 
Я про брата, Ваня, так скажу тебе, милый,
Светлую о нём память в сердце храня, -
Для того, сыночек, я вам жизнь подарила,
Чтобы отдавали вы её за меня.
 
Быть должна я, Ванечка, сильна и упряма,
У победы, Ванечка, такая цена
Может быть, не очень я хорошая мама,
Но зато великая, сынок, я страна,
Но зато великая я, Ваня, страна.
 
Баю-бай, баю-бай,
Поскорее засыпай,
А не то придёт бабай,
Баю-бай, баю-бай...
 
Translation

Lullaby

Oh, that's not wolves howling on the outskirts -
That's a snowstorm singing its song.
Don't cry, my little son, calm down,
Bayu-bayu, bayu, bayushki-bayu,
Bayu-bayu, bayu, bayushki-bayu.
 
You shouldn't be afraid of the evil blizzard, little son,
You're just too small and too pure of soul.
We have a more terrible enemy, my darling,
This enemy, my son, it's the Ukro-Nazi!
 
The cursed one, he's the cause of all our misfortunes,
If it weren't for him, we could live peacefully.
It's a great pity, Vanyusha1, that you're only three years old,
And you can't go out to kill Ukrops2.
 
Bayushki-bayu, bayushki-bayu,
There's nothing better than death in a battle,
There's nothing better than death in a battle.
Bayu-bayushki-bayu!
 
Your middle brother, Vanyusha, has become a traitor,
O God, save and forgive the sinner!
He didn't listen to father and mother
And became a specialist in something called IT.
 
You can't help him with any prayers,
He's in Europe now in the captivity of a satrap.
He probably spends his nights there with sodomites3
And doesn't believe in God, but in Satan.
 
Bayu-bay, bayu-bay,
All our enemies will croak, and we'll go to heaven4.
All our enemies will croak, and we'll go to heaven.
Bayu-bay, bayu-bay.
 
But your older brother went off as a contract soldier,
He didn't sell the Motherland for latte and cheesecake,
He stood up for his friends5 and for the truth,
And whatever bad things they write about him are faked.
 
Now he's returned as a hero,
He defended our country for a whole nine months.
Soon we'll put up a fence for him6
and a beautiful monument - the mayor has promised it.
 
About your brother I'll tell you, Vanya, my dear,
Preserving a bright memory of him in my heart -
My little son, this is why I gave you life,
So you may sacrifice it for me.
 
Vanechka, I have to be strong and stubborn,
This is the price of victory, Vanechka,
Maybe I'm not a very good Mom,
But I'm a great country, my son,
But I'm a great country, Vanya.
 
Bayu-bay, baju-bay,
Hurry up to go to sleep,
Or else the Babay7 will come,
Bayu-bay, bayu-bay...
 
  • 1. Like Vanya and Vanechka below, diminutive forms of "Ivan".
  • 2. Russian ethnic slur for Ukrainians. Literally "dills" - adding -op to the Ukr- for Ukrainian, you end up with the word for dill.
  • 3. According Russian state propaganda, the West is controlled by gay, satanistic Nazis, and the Ukrainian "Nazis" could come to power only because they had been bought by the "Nazis" in the White House, the "Nazis" in the European Commission, etc.
  • 4. As explicitly promised by Kirill Gundyayev, the leader of the russian orthodox church: any soldier dying in the "Holy War" against the "satanistic" West will go straight to heaven. Gundyayev's "teachings" (including those about the "Russian world") have by now been declared "heresies" by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the informal leader of the whole of orthodox christendom. The words used here are literally from a 2018 Sochi speech by Putin, telling russians that in the case of a nuclear war "we (i.e. the russians)" would go straight to heaven as martyrs, while "they" (the evil West) will simply croak.
  • 5. "For his friends" not in Russian, but in Church Slavonic, thereby creating a link to the words of Jesus in John 15:13.
  • 6. I.e., around his grave.
  • 7. In Slavic mythology, an evil demon of night and darkness who punishes children not obeying their parents. Thus close to the English "bogeyman".
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