“Stole-stole” It is one more satirical song of WWII time where the Russians scoff at the Germans. It is a very cheerful song. ******************************************************************************************** “Stole-stole” (Translated by Andrey) Every one of you, of course, knows a popular movie Where three main heroes are three ninnies [1]. The main hero is merry and pretty And sings a funny couplet on the following motive: (Sings a couplet on English) Our friendly collective decided now That we have to repeat such an example. Our hero, a gallant cavalier, is not worse than that one, And he sings the song in the same manner: “They stole-stole-stole poultry and hens, gooses and cattle, They stole-stole-stole everything that fell into their hands, They stole-stole-stole and carried everything into their bunker – They carried samovars-vars-vars, wide trousers-sers-sers and all the other goods exactly in their mouths” [2] The Fuhrer [3] boasted at a summer: “I want Blitzkrieg” He said that he would conquer in a flash Soviet Union up to the Ural, He said that he would race past Russia like Napoleon [4] for a few attacks, But our battalions answered so: “We beated-beated-beated them and in Tuesday, and in Thursday [5], And we bombed-bombed-bombed and Berlin, and Kenigsburg [6] We beated-beated-beated them and didn’t capture them alive, And how we bombed-bombed-bombed, and how we beated-beated-beated so we are beating-beating-beating them now and we shall beat them completely. ” Such examples are not infrequent, We do not forget that our ancestry won the Germans in past And they did it not once, and not twice! [7] Even Bismarck spoke publicly not once: “It is possible to fight against anyone but only not against the Russians” [8] They had-had-had no to levy war against us And to poke their mugs-snouts In our vegetable garden [9] They had-had-had to know and to remember in advance – Do not come to us to beat-beat-beat us as you will be beaten-beaten-beaten by our never beaten-beaten-beaten people. Remarks of Andrey: [1] I do not know about what movie she sings - :-). May be, it is about “Three men and the dog in a boat ” [2] it is related to the behavior of the German soldiers when they came in a Russian settlement. The Germans took off all what they wanted from the Russian civilians. First of all, the German soldiers took off poultry and pigs, it was a very common image of a German soldier with a hen or a goose in his hands.. But they took off EVERYTHING, often it was completely not understandable why they took off the things which were absolutely non-useful to them. They operated like a band of robbers. [3] Fuhrer – it sounds comically for a Russian ear [4] Napoleon – in 1812 the Napoleon’s French troops invaded in Russia. The Russian Army was weaker and the Russian commander decided to deviate from a decisive battle and to retreat for weakening of the enemy forces. In the result after a few combats Napoleon was nearly Moscow. In the Borodino battle (a village nearly Moscow) both the armies suffer huge casualties and Kutuzov, the Russian Commander, decided to retreat and to save the Army. So Napoleon came in Moscow but the war didn’t finish, the Russians lost their capital but didn’t surrender. Then a winter began and the French Army, suffering from partisans, frost and hunger, began to run away. In the result the most part of the French troops that invaded in Russia at summer returned at home. The phrase “race past Russia like Napoleon for a few attacks” means that Napoleon reached Moscow after only a few combats. [5] it means “in each day of the week” here [6] In August of 1941 operating from the Ezel Island in the Baltic Sea a few Soviet long-range bombers of the Baltic Sea Fleet Aircraft made a few bombing missions against Berlin and Kenigsburg. The effect of these missions was a huge, the Soviet soldiers cheered up. It was the same like the raid of Doolitle in Tokyo in 1942. [7] Some examples. - In 1242 the forces of German knights-crusaders were defeated by Novgorod’s Russian troops under the command of Alexander Nevskii in the Chudskoe Lake. In 1941 the excellent movie “Alexander Nevskii” about those events was made in USSR and it was very popular in USSR. - In1410 in Grunvald Battle the united forces of the Poles, Lithuanians and Russians won the d ecisive battle against the forces of the German knights-crusaders. - In 1757-1762 Russia fought against Prussia of Fredrick the Great. In many battles the Russian troops won the Germans, the war was almost won, the Russians captured Berlin in 1760 but suddenly Russian Empress Elizaveta died in January of 1762 and Peter the Third, the new pro-German Russian Emperor, stopped the actions against Fredrick the Great and made a peace. Fredrick the Great was saved. There is a famous phrase of the time of that war. A German general reported to Fredrick the Great about the behavior of the Russian soldiers in the battlefield: “It is not enough to shoot a Russian soldier some times, it is not enough to beat his with a sabre some times, it is necessary also to push him with a foot and only then he will fall”. [8] It is well-known fact in Russia that Bismarck, the great German chancellor, willed to the Germans never to fight against Russia. [9] "to poke their mugs-snouts in our vegetable garden" - it is a Russian saying. In Russia every peasant's house has its vegetable garden. And sometimes a pig gets in the vegetable garden and began to eat plants and to root up. In the result the pig spoils a lot of plants. So "do not poke your mug-snout in my vegetable garden" means "do not come to me as you will spoil my property and I shall use force against you if you will come nevertheless" ******************************************************************************************** The Russian version (translit): "Voro-voro" Vse iz vas konechno znaiut populiarnyi fil'm, Gde geroev triokh igraiut troe prostofil'. Ispolnitel' samyi glavnyi vesel i krasiv I poiot kuplet zabavnyi na takoi motiv: (Poiot kuplet na angliiskom iazyke) V kollektive nashem druzhnom resheno seichas, Chto primer podobnyi nuzhno povtorit' u nas. Nash geroi togo ne khuzhe, bravyi kavaler, I poiot on pesniu tu zhe na takoi maner: "Voro-voro-vorovali ptits i kur, gusei i skot, Voro-voro-vorovali, chto pod ruki popadiot, Voro-voro-vorovali, vsio tashchili k sebe v dzot - Samovary-vary-vary, sharovary-vary-vary, vse tovary-vary-vary priamo v rot." Khvastal fiurer kak-to letom: "Zakhochu blitskrig!" Zavoiuiu, mol, Sovety do Urala vmig, Proskochu Napoleonom v neskol'ko atak, Nu a nashi batal'ony otvechali tak: "Bili-bili-bili-bili i vo vtornik i v chetverg I bombili-bili-bili-bili i Berlin i Kenigsberg Bili-bili-bili-bili i ne brali ikh zhiv'iom, Kak bombili-bili-bili-bili, bili-bili-bili-bili, tak i bili-bili-bili-bili i dob'iom" Eti sluchai neredki, pamiat' v nas zhiva, Bili nemtsev nashi predki, I ne raz, ne dva! Dazhe Bismark vsenarodno govoril ne raz: - Mozhno drat'sia s kem ugodno, no s Rossiei - net. Nado bylo-bylo-bylo ne idti na nas v pokhod, I svoio svinoe rylo-rylo-rylo Ne sovat' v nash ogorod. Nado bylo-bylo-bylo znat' i pomnit' naperiod - Ne khodite bity-bity-bity, budesh' bityi-bityi-bityi o nebityi-bityi-bityi nash narod.