Life was much more certain, behind the iron curtain
The ruble was more stable, there was cabbage on the table
Truth was very easy to identify - everything in Pravda was a lie
Lie lie lie lie la li li li
- And if democracy doesn't work, it's iron curtains for all of us!

There is a certain magic, when your life is tragic
I'm feeling melancholic, and I'm an alcoholic
I get so sentimental and I cry cry cry
Give me a vodka I am dry
Dry dry lie lie la li li li
- All vodka corrupts, but absolut vodka corrupts absolutely

To hell with comrade Yeltsin, he made us pull our belts in
Zhirinofsky is a wanker, throw him in Lubyanka
I don't want a Pizza Hut or a Big Mac
I preferred the market when it was all black
Lie lie lie lie la li li li
- I called escort service - send me big fat ugly woman. I am homesick!'

Russian contribution, is more than revolution
Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, and Alexander Nyevsky
Don't forget Nutcracker by Ballet Bolschoi
That was the first story of a toy
Toy toy lie lie la lie lie lie
- In Russia we also had the sixties. But not until the seventies.

I really really like a, Russian balalaika
It's not like rock and roll, it suits my Russian soul
It makes me want to dancing through the neighborhood
O balalaika sounding good
'katyusha' : vichodyela na byere Katyusha, vichodyela na byere krutoi.
The words mean: I'm not against lap dancing. What they do in Finland is not my business!

Home, home in Ukraine
Bring communist rule back again!
If we were democratic, I would be ecstatic
Ask me that vodka again.
Let's go to Gorki Park
Gorki Park has changed, now it's Gorki Parking Lot
Everything has changed...