Song, What Motherland Starts From…- Translation (Rus.)

From the Soviet film ‘The sheild and the sword’

What Motherland starts from and where is born?
From sign in the old child’s book,
From every your good and true friends, for long
They live in the close neighbourhood;
But it may begin with a craddle song,
Which mother sang near your bed;
And this couln’t ever be ruined all
From any disaster till end.

What Motherland starts from and where is born?
From bench near gates, which you love,
From birch in a field, bending under wind,
Which grows in freedom so fast.
But it may begin with a starling’s song,
So joyfully singing in spring;
From road, that suddenly you had crossed,
The endless in view, as it seems.

What Motherland starts from and where is born?
From a window’s light far away,
From the old budyennovka*, which is found
In our wardrobe one day.
But it may begin with a rattle sound
From the railroad wheels in the night;
With the oath of love that you’d sworn aloud
In youth with deep passion in heart.

What Motherland starts from and where is born? …