Poems and Songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. The Hill.

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Commentary to “A Song about the Neutral Zone”.

“...it’s opened our frontier with Turkey just like the Kremlin gate...” — in 1955, a part of the territory of the Moscow Kremlin was opened to the Soviet cit­i­zens.

The translation was adapted from Stas and Margaret Porokhnya’s one, the first line was taken from the manuscript (Turkestan was one of the Soviet re­publics).

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