The meaning of the lyrics of the song "All deadlines have already passed." (Vse sroka uje zakonchenyi) the performer of the song "Vladimir Vysotsky"

All the terms have ended,

And at the camp gates,

That are boarded up tight,

An inscription: "Everyone has gone to the front."

They will forgive us our sins,

Because we have such a people:

If the Motherland is in danger,

Then everyone must go to the front.

There, a year counts for three, if God wills it,

Just like a credit in the camp.

Today we are equal to the guards,

Today everyone must go to the front.

Chief Beryozkin -

Oh, the arrogance, oh, the swagger!

And his soul - boarded up tight,

But even he went to the front.

It would have been better to send him to the rear,

He wasn't brave before.

The tribunal awarded him the highest measure

For shooting himself.

Well, and we - we justified everything,

They awarded us later,

Those who are alive - with medals,

And those who are dead - with a cross.

And other prisoners

Will read at the gates

Our memory encased in glass -

The inscription: "Everyone has gone to the front."

Все срока окончены,

А у лагерных ворот,

Что крест-накрест заколочены,

Надпись: «Все ушли на фронт».

За грехи за наши нас простят, —

Ведь у нас такой народ:

Если Родина в опасности —

Значит, всем идти на фронт.

Там год — за три, если бог хранит, —

Как и в лагере зачёт.

Нынче мы на равных с ВОХРами,

Нынче всем идти на фронт.

У начальника Берёзкина —

Ох и гонор, ох и понт!

И душа — крест-накрест досками,

Но и он пошёл на фронт.

Лучше было сразу в тыл его,

Он и раньше не был смел.

Высшей мерой наградил его

Трибунал за самострел.

Ну, а мы — всё оправдали мы,

Наградили нас потом,

Кто живые — тех медалями,

А кто мёртвые — крестом.

И другие заключённые

Прочитают у ворот

Нашу память застеклённую —

Надпись: «Все ушли на фронт».

Vladimir Vysotsky's poem "All Terms Are Served" is filled with bitter irony and tragedy. It tells the story of prisoners sent to the front lines during the war.

From the first lines, two contrasting concepts collide: "all terms are served" and "camp gates... boarded up." Their sentences have ended, but freedom is an illusion - instead, another prison awaits them: war. The inscription "Everyone has gone to the front" sounds mocking, blurring the line between voluntary choice and coercion.

The author speaks with bitterness and sarcasm about the forgiveness of sins: "For our sins, we will be forgiven, - For that is our people: If the Motherland is in danger - It means everyone must go to the front." Forgiveness through death on the battlefield, where "a year counts for three," becomes the only path to redemption.

Vysotsky draws parallels between the camp and the front, showing that for the prisoners it is merely an exchange of one form of confinement for another: "Now we are equal to the guards, Now everyone must go to the front."

The image of the camp chief Berezkin, cowardly and cruel, symbolizes the hypocrisy of the system. Hiding behind the backs of prisoners, he was "rewarded" by a tribunal for self-inflicted injury - the only way to avoid the front.

The ending of the poem is tragic. The survivors are "rewarded" with medals, the dead with crosses. But the main reward - "glazed memory" - the inscription on the gates - will remind future generations of the bitter fate of those who went to the front from the camp barracks.