Ales' Dudar - Пасеклі Край наш (Pasyekli Kray nash) dalszöveg fordítás angol nyelvre

Our Country Has Been Cleaved

• 1. On March 25, 1918, the Belarussian People’s Republic with the capital in Minsk and national Belarussian language was declared. In December, 1918, the Bolsheviks established in Belarus their power and renamed it to “The Belarussian Soviet Socialistic Republic“ (BSSR). On January 28, 1919, the Soviet-Polish war started, in which the Red Army was defeated, and the Russian Soviet Socialistic Repuplic and Poland concluded the Peace of Riga on March 18, 1921. According to that peace Treaty, Poland got the Western territory of Belarus (Bialystok, Brest, Hrodna, Pinsk, Baranavichy, Maladzyechna regions, and the half of Polotsk region) and Ukraine, the rest parts of them remained for the Bolsheviks.
  The Belarusians and Ukrainians did not even participate in those negotiations. The BSSR and Soviet Ukraine did not have real sovereignty, their citizens suffered from collectivization, Holodomor, and Stalin's repressions. The Bolsheviks began Belarusization in the BSSR in the 1920's, but it was stopped at the beginning of the 1930's. The Polish government tried to polonize the Belarussians, closed Belarussian schools and social organizations.
  This lyrics criticizes both Soviet and Polish sides for the Peace of Riga. On March 29, 1929, Ales’ Dudar was arrested for publishing this lyrics and exiled to Smolensk.
• 2. The Polish government is meant as 'nobles' here.
• 3. This quotation is the the first two lines of the poem 'Gypsies' (rus. 'Цыганы') written by Alexander Pushkin in 1824.
• 4. Joseph Stalin is meant here.
• 5. 'The Northwestern region' was the name of Belarus in the Russian Empire. The Russian tzar Nicolas I banned such words as 'Belarus' and 'Belarussian' in 1840.
• 6. Michail Nikolaevich Muravyov (1976-1866) was the Russian governor of Vitebsk (1827-1828), Mogilev (1828-1831) and Hrodna (1831-1835) regions. He is known for Russification of Belarus, struggle against Catholicism and revival of Orthodoxy, violent suppression of the Polish rebellion in 1863. 'Muravyov the Hangman', 'Muravyov the Executioner', and 'Muravyov the Cannibal' were his nicknames, they speak for themselves.