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The Death of the Bear
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The Dubliners
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The balalaika rings silent from Minsk to Red Square The cortege assembles to bury the bear Nadia Rostropovich looks on in despair With Irina, Catharina and Olga And quietly remembering her brother Ivan Shot in the back in Afghanistan The Stalinist purges, the snowy white grave That claimed Boris, Dimitri and Igor She remembered how proud, she cheered with the crowd When Youri Gagarin sailed over the clouds Nadia and Ivan shouted aloud We put the first man in space But that was before the feared KGB Put a question mark over her own loyalty To keep an eye on her comrades one two and three Irina, Catharina and Olga And poor uncle Vlad whom the Doc declared mad For refusing to leave his beloved Leningrad She stood in the doorway tearful and sad When they frog-marched him off to the Gulag He took a last look at his own native hills Where grew the red dogwoods and wild daffodils The look on his face was haunting her still Comrade Nadia Rostropovich
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