Beginning of the End - Operation Magistral 1987 - Операция Магистраль 1987

One of the last large battles and one of the last major Soviet operations of the Soviet Afghan War, Operation Magistral lasted from 1987-1988, preceding the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it echoes"

Music: "Вальс золотых погон"/"Waltz of the Golden Epaulettes" - Дмитрий Полторацкий/Dmitry Poltoratsky

Lyrics (English):
In the restaurant "Moscow" again the violin sings
And the champagne is pouring into the glasses.
The retired captain pours and drinks
Looking tiredly at the dancers.
The cigarette smokes, the blue thread is smoke
It flows towards the ceiling, swaying slightly.
The retired captain looks blank,
He drinks vodka and cannot get drunk.

Russian soul cries
Life flies by like a dream
Slowly the couples are circling
Waltz of golden epaulettes.

Tell me how you lived, retired captain,
As he took the oath before the formation.
Tell us how the red-hot Afghan went
By order of the ministers of stagnation.
Like a sapper shovel he chopped his people,
Believing in the wisdom of high orders,
How you ruined your Russian soul
In the fraternal massacre of the gray-haired Caucasus.

Russian soul cries
Life flies by like a dream
Slowly the couples are circling
Waltz of golden epaulettes.

Tell me, captain, how you got home
Seeing familiar faces
How did you become, captain, a complete stranger
Here, in the painfully familiar capital.
Where the boy drove pigeons around the yards,
Where you wandered in love through the puddles,
Where you were proud of your guards uniform,
Where nobody needs you now.

Russian soul cries
Life flies by like a dream
Slowly the couples are circling
Waltz of golden epaulettes.

Russian soul cries
Life flies by like a dream
Slowly the couples are circling
Waltz of golden epaulettes.

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