Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. Our Life Has Lots of Edges.

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Commentary to the song “While you in the bathroom with glazed tiles...”

The plot of this song is based on a real event: in 1961, Leonid Rogozov, the doctor at the Novolazarevskaya station in Antarctica, performed an ap­pen­dec­to­my on himself.

The song was written in 1961.

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