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Two Immates, Two Friends by Vlad Visotskiy

We burned because of a misunderstanding:

He went to prison for embezzlement,  I for Xenia, think -

We were in love, but we broke up instead:

She loudly  screamed and sharp resisted.

 

The Sleuths descended on us both in a moment

And now we become just both the old  inmates -

Inmate Vasiliev and Petrov inmate.

 

And in the camps - not life, but pitch dark darkness:

All around are square activists, all around are burglars house,

All around are terrible attitudes towards us each moment,

And very strange inconvenient  encroachments.

 

Well, the authorities don\'t care why or how or dates:

For the authorities, we are the same as  old inmates

Inmate Vasiliev and Petrov inmate.

 

And so we had to decided: we want to run away,

Otherwise, all this will end very badly  way:

The criminals beat us up every day as showers,

And the chief   doctor calls us to be his lovers.

 

And so we decided to run away, well, for a now yet,

We just  remained the same old inmates:

Inmate Vasiliev and Petrov inmate.

 

We spent four years, preparing to escape at least.

We saved three tons of food at recess;

And one terribly nice criminal even gave us

A ladle to take in long journey with us.

 

And so we left with him — hand in hand,

The prisoners  applauded our insolence  with their bands.

Inmate Vasiliev and Petrov inmate.

 

And so we walked through  the tundra, like little orphans,

Not along the road, but only along the little path,

Where we were going — to Moscow or to Mongolia —

He didn’t know, the bastard, — even less so and I.

 

I proved to him that the west is where’s the sunset up,

But it was too late: the Sleuths  had caught us —in gap!

Inmate Vasiliev and Petrov inmate., chaps

 

Then — an order about our camp colonel,

That he had managed caught two big criminals.

For that — money and two orders for him to uniform,

And he, out of joy, kept hitting us in the face as storm.

 

After that, they added more time to our sentences,

And now we again are the same old prisoners -

Inmate Vasiliev and Petrov inmate. It’s nonsense!