Motor-Roller - Brest Fortresses (Animated video with English subtitles) /2016/

Brest Fortresses Lyrics & music by ILyas Autov / Translated by Lizz Zakharoff We were not carried by storm, We have opened gates by ourselves. Even those who have hurt us till bleeding Were offered to live in peace. They were amazed That we were so careless And have taken artificial guilt On our humble shoulders. Huge guilt was imposed on us By arrogant European standards: It is our Asian mix And our Cyclopian scale… Continuing to penetrate into our houses, This highly-experienced foreign land Has started nibbling our roots – Since without roots it’s easier to negotiate. It has eaten our scientists and doctors, It has strangled cinematograph, It has gnawed the teachers And geographer has drunk away his globe. It has gnawed holes in brain, To implement clobber inside. Our will was completely destroyed And our memory was holed as well. And when they started To call us “stupid absurdity” in our face, I decided something’s got to give And turned into Brest fortress. On a sliver of Motherland I have