Makhnovshchina

Soundcloud, translation of the French original

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Makhnovschina, Makhnovschina
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Black army of Ukraine
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Banners red with our blood
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Banners black with our pain

Like a thunder over the mountain
Like wind racing over the plain
Our partisans are rising
Across all of Ukraine

In the springtime, Lenin’s treaties
Sold Ukraine to the German’s hands
In the autumn, Makhnovshchina
Like a wind swept through the land

Denikin’s army came singing
Across the steppes where they tread
But the arms of the Makhnovshchina
Drowned them in the Sinyukha’s bed

Trotsky made us his offer-
unite the Red and the Black
But the hand he gave in friendship
Drove a knife into your back

They betrayed you, Makhnovshchina,
But though you were torn apart,
Like seeds cast to the wind,
You are rooted in our hearts