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The meaning of the lyrics of the song "We don't need your pity." (Nas ne nujno jalet) the performer of the song "Vladimir Vysotsky"

You don't need to pity us, for we wouldn't pity anyone either.

We are pure before our commander, like before the Lord God himself.

The overcoats on the living have turned reddish from blood and clay,

Blue flowers have blossomed on the graves of the dead.

They blossomed and faded... The fourth autumn is passing.

Our mothers are crying, our peers are silently grieving.

We haven't known love, haven't experienced the happiness of crafts,

We were given the difficult fate of soldiers.

My peers have no poems, no love, no peace.

Only strength and envy. And when we return from the war,

We will love fully and write, my friend, such things,

That our sons will be proud of their soldier fathers.

Who will return - will love fully? No! Our hearts won't have enough for that,

And the fallen don't need the living to love for them.

No man in the family - no children, no master in the hut.

Will the sobs of the living help such grief?

And who won't return? Who won't get to love fully?

And who was struck down by the first bullet in '41?

A peer will burst into tears, a mother will collapse on the threshold, -

My peers have no poems, no peace, no wives.

You don't need to pity us, for we wouldn't pity anyone either.

Those who went into attack, who shared their last piece,

They will understand this truth, it came to us in the trenches and dugouts,

It came to argue in a hoarse, grumpy bass.

Let the living remember, and let generations know

This harsh truth of a soldier, taken in battle.

And your crutches, and the fatal wound through and through,

And the graves above the Volga, where thousands of young men lie.

This is our fate, we cursed and sang with it,

Rose in attacks and tore down bridges over the Bug.

And when we return - and we will return with victory,

All stubborn like devils, tenacious and spiteful like humans, -

Let them brew us beer and roast us meat for dinner,

So that tables groan on their oak legs everywhere.

We will bow at the feet of our dear, tormented people,

Kiss our mothers and the girlfriends who waited, loving.

That's when we return, having secured victory with bayonets,

We will love fully, my friend, and find work for ourselves.

This is our fate, we cursed and sang with it,

Rose in attacks, and tore down bridges over the Bug River.

You don't need to pity us, for we wouldn't pity anyone either.

We are pure before our Mother Russia even in difficult times.

Нас не нужно жалеть, ведь и мы никого б не жалели.

Мы пред нашим комбатом, как пред господом богом, чисты.

На живых порыжели от крови и глины шинели,

На могилах у мертвых расцвели голубые цветы.

Расцвели и опали... Проходит четвертая осень.

Наши матери плачут, ровесницы молча грустят.

Мы не знали любви, не изведали счастья ремесел,

Нам досталась на долю нелегкая участь солдат.

У погодков моих ни стихов, ни любви, ни покоя.

Только сила и зависть. А когда мы вернемся с войны.

Все долюбим сполна и напишем, ровесник, такое.

Что отцами-солдатами будут гордится сыны.

Кто вернется - долюбит? Нет! Сердца на это не хватит,

И не надо погибшим, чтоб живые любили за них.

Нет мужчины в семье - нет детей, нет хозяина в хате.

Разве горю такому помогут рыданья живых?

Ну а кто не вернется? Кому долюбить не придется?

Ну, а кто в сорок первом первою пулей сражен?

Зарыдает ровесница, мать на пороге забьется, -

У погодков моих ни стихов, ни покоя, ни жен.

Нас не нужно жалеть, ведь и мы никого б не жалели.

Кто в атаку ходил, кто делился последним куском.

Тот поймет эту правду, она к нам в окопы и щели.

Приходила поспорить ворчливым, охрипшим баском.

Пусть живые запомнят, и пусть поколения знают.

Эту взятую с боем суровую правду солдат.

И твои костыли, и смертельная рана сквозная.

И могилы над волгой, где тысячи юных лежат.

Это наша судьба, это с ней мы ругались и пели.

Подымались в атаку и рвали над бугом мосты.

А когда мы вернемся, - а мы возвратимся с победой,

Все, как черти, упрямы, как люди, живучи и злы, -

Пусть нами пива наварят и мяса нажарят к обеду,

Чтоб на ножках дубовых повсюду ломились столы.

Мы поклонимся в ноги родным исстрадавшимся людям.

Матерей расцелуем и подруг, что дождались, любя.

Вот когда мы вернемся и победу штыками добудем.

Все долюбим, ровесник, и работу найдем для себя.

Это наша судьба, это с ней мы ругались и пели.

Подымались в атаку, и рвали над буком мосты.

Нас не нужно жалеть, ведь и мы никого б не жалели,

Мы пред нашей россией и в трудное время чисты.

In the song "We Don't Need Your Pity," Vladimir Vysotsky speaks from the perspective of a soldier who has experienced the horrors of war. The lyrical hero rejects pity, considering it inappropriate. He emphasizes that soldiers in war face death, witness the suffering and death of their comrades, and are ready to sacrifice themselves for victory.

The phrase "We don't need your pity, because we wouldn't pity anyone either" expresses not cruelty but a special state of mind, tempered by war. Soldiers do not pity the enemy because he is a threat to their homeland, their lives, the lives of their loved ones.

The hero says that those who survive will live life to the fullest, love, create, but not instead of the fallen, but for the sake of the future.

Vysotsky shows the war without embellishment, with its pain, loss, and the courage of ordinary soldiers. He urges not to pity them, but to remember the feat, the price of victory that they paid.

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