Do Russians want of any war?

On May 8-9 in 1945 Nazi Germany capitulated.
It was the end of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) for the Soviet Union.
75% of Wehrmacht (German armed forces) losses were on the Eastern frontiers.
In total about 70 000 000 people died during the Second World War 1939-1945.
…about 27 000 000 of them were from the Soviet Russia.

“Do Russians want of any war?” is a 1961 anti-war song written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

Yevtushenko later said he wrote the song in response to conversations he had with foreigners while traveling in western Europe and the United States. The lyrics evoke the peaceful Russian countryside, the memory of the millions of lives lost in the Second World War, and the friendly meeting of U.S. and Soviet soldiers on Elbe Day.

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Whether The Russians Want Of Any War?

Do Russians want of any war?
Recall a state of holy sadness after all
The silence soars over tilths and fields
And at the poplars and birch trees
Just shall you ask those veterans
Those fallen now lying under trees
And their sons would say to you –
Whether the Russians
Whether the Russians
Whether the Russians, want war.

Not only for that own land
They were then killed because of war
Being sure that all the people in the world
Not gonna sleep with war nightmares overall
Just shall you ask those veterans
Who gave you hugs at Elbe meet, –
And the allegiance to the memory we keep
Whether the Russians
Whether the Russians
Whether the Russians, want war?

Yes, we are successful in the fight
But do not want to see again
The soldiers who fell down due combats
Forever got embraced with bitter land
Just shall you ask all mothers’ mind
At least just ask the soldier’s wife
This way you should forever understand
Whether the Russians
Whether the Russians
Whether the Russians, want war.