Rehabilitacja komunistów [English translation]

There's no need for any kind of philosophies

to know that a creation act requires sacrifices

Especially when one is chiseling new world's shape

when one is sacrificing and making mistakes.

Nonetheless, to do history justice

it's time to rehabilitate the victims of errors.

Those in graves for half a century – eternal retirement;

A long list of sacrifices awaits the Last Judgement.

A communist, in order to get on the list -

had to have been killed by another communist.

Wise men of communism are losing nights plagued:

'Who deserves resurrection and if so – to what end?'

Who may still be useful, for there are going rumours,

that marxists are secretly channelling the ghosts.

One fell off, because the truth can't remain hidden:

if not for his murderer, he would have become one.

Another one is no good, even though been purged

if he lived – even worse things would've happened

Had the history's sinusoid had a different drawing

today we would be rehabilitating Stalin.

It's good, though, to show the whole world over

that slip ups can happen even to an executioner

that Motherland loves her slaughtered children

and admits – albeit after years – that she was mistaken

With seriousness they say raising a pile of rotten leaves:

'They would have made such great communists'

Historical materialism new heights achieves:

scientifically proving what 'would happen if's...

Some will say this ballad makes me a pugilist

truly I'm just a Rusophile - anticommunist