Vladimir And The Beast-The Stranglers

[ti:Vladimir And The Beast] [ar:The Stranglers] [al:Original Album Classics] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Vladimir And The Beast - The Stranglers (扼杀者) [00:03.15]Thank you my fatherland [00:17.32]For helping me to be totally reintegrated and normalised [00:20.75]Only in the world's greatest socialist democracy [00:24.93]Could one hope to be forgiven for losing temporary sight [00:29.55]Of the aims and goals of the of the Marxist/Leninist revolution [00:33.55]Two years it took me to be cured of my illness [00:38.35]Being still a relatively young and fit man [00:41.35]I was still in search of fulfilment [00:43.77]The memory of Olger Sergey and my two children [00:48.89]Motivated me to seek an occupation [00:51.20]That would both repay my debt to my great party [00:54.82]And obviously help the way to international socialism [00:56.69]I was still unable to resume my lectureship at the sub-nucleonic particle physics [01:03.49]And therefore volunteered to help our Afghan comrades [01:08.18]In their great struggle for liberation [01:10.36]I was readily accepted [01:13.17]Into a motorized maintenance unit [01:15.41]It was not long before I realised that our support [01:41.03]For the liberation struggle of our comrades in Afghanistan [01:44.46]Was not viewed at all together unanimously by the local population [01:48.95]In fact we were not allowed outside of the barracks unless we were in large armoured groups [01:55.88]During our brief stay in Afghanistan [01:58.81]We had discovered some of the very few pleasures open to visitors to this desolate place [02:04.38]A local concoction called “hashish” was being increasingly used by our troops [02:10.57]And many of the helicopter gunship and tank crews moreover [02:14.76]Would smoke large chillums and joints before embarking on missions around the mountains surrounding Kabul [02:20.68]Every week comrades who had fallen into the hands of the rebels [02:27.48]Would be found in various states of dismemberment around the camp [02:31.16]Those unlucky enough to be still alive [02:34.22]Were sent from rehabilitation [02:35.60]To the German democratic republics [02:37.90]Since this would prevent any undue alarm by our loved ones back home [02:42.21]The wisdom of this policy is evidence of our leaders' great care for their people [02:47.33]Apart from hashish there was not much to divert or endure the cold mountain nights [02:56.75]And increasingly there were signs of the troops acquiring the illness of which I had previously been cured [03:03.67]And therefore my attention was focused more on looking at the few animals that were kept within the military compound [03:12.22]As is often the case between human beings and animals [03:17.40]A close bond of affection can develop [03:21.27]And I became increasingly close to a camel I named Dimitri [03:26.57]Ah dear Dimitri [03:29.95]No one can really understand the relationship between a man and his camel [03:35.94]As was the case with the army doctors and my superiors [03:39.56]Who sent me to convalesce in the German democratic republic