Do the Russians want war?
Ask the silence
Over the vastness of plains and fields,
And the birches and poplars.
Ask the soldiers who lie
Under the birches,
And their sons will tell you
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want war!
Not only for their own country
Did the soldiers die in that war,
And so that the people of the whole earth
They could sleep peacefully at night.
Ask those who fought,
Who hugged us on the Elbe
(We are faithful to this memory) -
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want to,
Do the Russians want war!
Yes, we know how to fight,
But we don't want it to happen again.
Soldiers fell in battle
To my bitter land.
You might ask the mothers.,
Ask my wife,
And then you'll understand -
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want war!
The dockworker and the fisherman will understand,
The worker and the farmhand will understand,
The people of any country will understand -
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want,
Do the Russians want war!