Russia is burning

Western propaganda never varies
Blame Russia, not the Fascists.
Anna Akhmatova lived through
The Great Patriotic War
Knew all about the Ukrainian
14th Waffen Grenadier Division
of the SS (1st Galician)
The 26 million Soviet dead
Required to defeat the Fascists.
For Anna Akhmatova the Red Army
Defended the Russian language
as well as Russian soil
Poems written by Red Army soldiers
published in newspapers and broadcast on the radio.
Alexei Surkov’s ‘In the Dugout’
Konstantin Simonov’s ‘Wait for Me’ were turned into popular songs.
The Russian defence of Stalingrad
was granite-courage. Such sharp snipers.
Defending Pushkin’s house.
Would the US welcome Russian troops
And armaments on the Mexican border?
Of course they would!
NATO expects Russia should
Accept the languor of death
Like an undeserved rest
They will be disappointed: that much is true.