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RIP, Alexei Anatoljewitsch Nawalny.

Klage des Zorns und der Liebe!
Salz, das auf Augen ruht!
Oh, und Böhmen in Tränen!
Oh, und Spanien im Blut!

O schwarzer Berg, der du das
Licht verdunkelt hast!
Zeit ists, Zeit, dem Schöpfer
hinzuwerfen den Paß.

Ich weigre mich, zu leben
im Tollhaus, unter Vieh.
Ich weigre mich, ich heule
mit den Wölfen nie.

Ich weigre mich, zu schwimmen
als Hai des Lands, stromab
den Strom gebeugter Rücken —
ich weigre mich, lehn ab.

Ablehn ich, daß ich höre,
ablehn ich, daß ich seh.
Auf deine Welt des Irrsinns
gibt es nur eins: ich geh.

Frei übersetzt von Karl Mickel

(Aus dem Zyklus von "Gedichten an das Tschechenland", in denen sie ihr ehemals geliebtes Deutschland scharf verurteilt und sich mit der Tschechoslowakei, die ihr Zuflucht geboten hatte, solidarisiert.)

Das Original:

О слёзы на глазах!
Плач гнева и любви!
О Чехия в слезах!
Испания в крови!

О чёрная гора,
Затмившая весь свет!
Пора, пора, пора
Творцу вернуть билет.

Отказываюсь быть.
В Бедламе нелюде́й
Отказываюсь жить.
С волками площадей

Отказываюсь выть.
С акулами равнин
Отказываюсь плыть
Вниз по теченью спин.

Не надо мне ни дыр
Ушных, ни вещих глаз.
На твой безумный мир
Ответ один — отказ.

- Ist Tucker Carlson ein nützlicher Idiot?
- Im Prinzip ja. Allerdings nicht nützlich.

"As the Poles had not given the Danzig Corridor to Germany, and went too far, pushing Hitler to start World War II by attacking them. Why was it Poland against whom the war started on 1 September 1939? Poland turned out to be uncompromising, and Hitler had nothing to do but start implementing his plans with Poland.

By the way, the USSR — I have read some archive documents — behaved very honestly. It asked Poland’s permission to transit its troops through the Polish territory to help Czechoslovakia. But the then Polish foreign minister said that if the Soviet planes flew over Poland, they would be downed over the territory of Poland. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is that the war began, and Poland fell prey to the policies it had pursued against Czechoslovakia, as under the well-known Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, part of that territory, including western Ukraine, was to be given to Russia. Thus Russia, which was then named the USSR, regained its historical lands.

After the victory in the Great Patriotic War, as we call World War II, all those territories were ultimately enshrined as belonging to Russia, to the USSR. As for Poland, it received, apparently in compensation, the lands which had originally being German: the eastern parts of Germany (these are now western lands of Poland). Of course, Poland regained access to the Baltic sea, and Danzig, which was once again given its Polish name. So this was how this situation developed.

In 1922, when the USSR was being established, the Bolsheviks started building the USSR and established the Soviet Ukraine, which had never existed before."

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