1. The spirit shook and fluttered its banner
It dressed it and was dressed in blood

2. It drew strength from the God of the field, the home
And the factory, with determination and radiance

3. It cast seeds with eyes that tears have frozen
In which hatred's embers smolder

4. It hastened away from it, so it turned into an oath
That it will water it with the blood of enemies

5. And it walked in the crowd of death
With a foot that did not fear leaning or twisting

6. It swore by a great name that it honored
By its name that it will not disgrace the magnificent

7. O Stalin, how great are its letters
In eulogy, letters that refuse reproach

8. Letters from which the universe rains
Liberation, prosperity, and fraternity

9. The creator of the nation did not bestow favors
Nor, without the fragrance of flowers, did he seek praise

10. And he is a leader who shone on those around him
A glimmer from him so they became leaders

11. He touched the one with bitterness with his cloak
Overflowing with compassion, might, and exertion

12. Injustice touched him so he opposed his people
And he experienced misery so he loved the poor

13. And he set forth like a cloud on a sacrifice
So he quenched an era and revived and compensated

14. Blessed is the builder and long live a nation
That the builder opened up rights and construction

15. It was said to life so it overflowed with blessings
And to death so it overflowed with martyrs

16. And history walked with steady steps
Never humbled or loud with claims

17. This soil, no matter what it was called
A homeland that grows hunger and barrenness

18. And it is the pit when doves flew up
A thousand souls flew up for its ransom

19. And it is this honor - so do you want preservers
Like them or do you want preservation like it?

20. Stand on the Caucasus and see
The procession of glory and dignity walking proudly

21. And ask the Cossacks, was it blood
That the swords shone or was it polish?

22. And the traitor found from its harshness
What the guest saw from its generosity and munificence

23. And did the bare emancipation
Not meet with the corpses of the killed, distress?

24. It sighed from its chests when it saw
Its knight's steed become empty at night

25. So it and anger saw its cheeks
Grinding grit and dragging debris

26. And the clamor of war contained it but
It does not see the ground arrogant and lofty

27. From its saddle bestowing upon it
The honor of "the knight", resolve and chivalry

28. O bride of the Volga, while the Volga is blood
Evils turned good and it handled afflictions well

29. It dyed the Don in two bloods which
Are far between defilement and pure meeting

30. And its waves flowed
Bearing the two opposites, dawn and evening

31. And on the two banks, two bones
Symbol of two eras, decline and rise

32. O daughter of the two rivers, remain an apparition
For the strong and weak that comes and goes

33. For the disgraced, punishment and retribution
And for the disgracers, uprising and refusal

34. You were the highest example of victory
That the war plans did not cunningly birth

35. The victor won in it and the siege bent
Like a rope on a siege, bent

36. You were a symbol that inspired self-sacrifice
And guided generations however they wished and desired

37. They thought your matter was what they were used to
The shock of war kindling and extinguishing

38. And beginning from iron and blood
With which the conquest is sealed and then ending

39. And they became fervent - so the troop of death
Thirsty for blood that it watered

40. And they went in what they wanted a step
That near had despair erase hope

41. And the West was cold to its tread
And a greedy neighbor leaned towards oblivion

42. Bearing its present confident
That in a coming future is consolation

43. And history embarked in its confusion
Is it ahead, surpassing, or behind?

44. And news of ill spread claiming
That a wind threatens the world with a plague

45. A beautiful dream passed by comforting
How lonely it went with what came and was difficult

46. It roamed the universe so made its people sleep
Miserable and they awoke happy

47. So glory in its loftiness
Adorns itself, trampling arrogance

48. And ruins in their misery
Fill the anguished like a meadow with fragrance

49. And the rubble from its stones
Glimpsed the star sublime and shone

50. And there was the tyrant in his weddings
Filling the world with wailing and crying

51. You erased from its history
Arrogance, humiliation, and pretension

52. And filled the pure insolence
With utter disdain

53. And you slapped the lowly in their stupor
A slap that left no wine or revelry

54. It sufficed whom your folds tightened around
That he seeks salvation but cannot attain it

55. And it sufficed the occupier humiliation
That the captives' resistance from him is imprisonment

56. We, the people of the earth, if we were loyal
Would raise you to the sky in the earth

57. We would make every eye - just as
Every heart - possess yearning for you

58. Yes, what a wicked hand uncovered
Taking away the veil over your hot face

59. A storm passed so the right became clear
The hidden truth became uncovered

60. Justice arbitrated the mixed peoples
They populated the earth and lived devout

61. They found in the soil that unites them
All that is sought for eternity

62. And they saw in peace a duty required
And saw in war the peace's requirement

63. I hope - that you save a homeland
From the grip of death - poor soldiers

64. War surely has men, if only
They would let us know, war has women too

65. And jealous women whose history refused
To see without the jealous, glory

66. Chastity adorned it with harmony and it clung
To the thorns of monogamy so it increased in harmony

67. The mother warded off from the home preservation
And the child sacrificed himself for the mother's salvation

68. And it took pride when it left generations
That it did not protect - that it protected oblivion

69. "Mother Gorky" I wish I had inspiration
To give your daughter today her due praise

70. If today he returned alive he would see
Thousands like her shaking the eminent

71. Rather, if Gorky's mother wasn't
Like this one, the eminent wouldn't be honored

72. O Tolstoy, the revolt of thought did not go in vain
Nor did it disappear into thin air

73. O wealthy one who gave people wealth
Arise, you see people all wealthy

74. Arise, you find them, despite their heaviness
Since your time they were the wage earners

75. This is how the idea yields fruit
If it cultivated a plant, and grew well

76. You have refined truth and claim
Words that pierce the ears equally

77. And you found people in their ignorance
Unable to discern lies and truths

78. They were exploited so with their evil
They almost cannot comprehend the prophets

79. So you carried "the resurrection" in your right hand for them
And in your left, bliss and prosperity

80. And you condemned gentleness and mercy from
People who are not truly merciful

81. They call upon people as free but they
Filled the house with slaves and maidservants

82. And clothed their dog in brocade while
Around them the masses are naked

83. And you found the wolf in his states
Sometimes accompanying sheep and lamb

84. The lie may be exposed as nonsense
And the truth stealthily distributed as a plague

85. And the right - between them -
Wrong, and the deceivers, the reformers

86. O daughter of the two rivers, this is a lineage
Of loyalty, if you accept loyalty

87. Far from the target of what you sought
And the arrow went astray, so the bowstring slackened

88. And feeling leapt upon feeling so
The word cannot express consciousness

89. And from the injustice - that mixes them
Is to task the miracles to the poets

90. Emotions that found difficulty in
The seas of poetry so it pushed them back thirsty

91. And they would not have dropped a cause for you
If they were not innocent

92. Whim of the self did not stir them, nor
Did vainglory pulsate them, nor hypocrisy

93. The most that assists me
Is that the mouth answers the heart's call