Где вы были восемь лет, ёбаные нелюди?
Where have you been for eight years, you fucking inhuman bastards?
Я хочу смотреть балет, пусть танцуют лебеди
I want to watch the ballet, let the swans dance
Пусть за "Озеро" своё дед трясётся в трепете
Let the old man tremble for his "lake"
Нах с экрана соловьёв, пусть танцуют лебеди
Fuck the nightingales, let the swans dance
The melody of the song is taken from the allegro moderato of the Danse des petits cygnes, the famous pas de quatre from the second act of the ballet Swan Lake by composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The ballet has special significance for many Russians, as it symbolises the collapse of the Soviet Union. During the 1991 Soviet coup attempt in Moscow, the ballet was broadcast continuously on national television channels instead of the news, thus ensuring the population's hunger for news about what was happening at the top of the country.
The song's title is a double satire in itself. It refers not only to Tchaikovsky's ballet, but also to Putin's entourage and the nepotism that characterises Putin's policies. In the mid-1990s, eight men acquired large plots of land on the shores of Lake Komsomolskoye northwest of Saint Petersburg through a cooperative called Озеро (Ozero), or "The Lake". They built luxurious summer homes on this lucrative land and spent much of their time together. One of them was Vladimir Putin; the other seven, through Putin, became successful businessmen and government officials when he became president and remain part of his immediate entourage that governs the country.
The line "Where were you during those eight years?" refers to the period between 2014 and 2022, when Russia annexed Crimea and 30,000 Russian soldiers operated in the Donbas[7] where, under the command of former FSB Colonel Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin, also known as Igor Strelkov, they shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. At the time, Russian troops wore uniforms without insignia to give the impression that they were Russian-speaking Ukrainian opponents of the government in Kyiv. With these words, Noize MC condemns the apathy that Russian society showed for eight years towards the war in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, which the Kremlin then still denied.
The line "get those damn nightingales off the screen" refers to the war propaganda on daily talk shows on various Russian state channels. A nightingale is a соловей (solovyey) in Russian, which refers to Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov, the host of the television programme An Evening with Vladimir Solovyov on Russia-1. Solovyov is one of Putin's most brazen propagandists.
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