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1977

Evhenyi Evtushenko

God willing!

May God give the blind people their eyes back and straighten your backs hunchbacked. Let God be God at least a little bit, but you can’t be a little crucified.

God forbid you get into trouble with power and not act falsely as heroes, and be rich - but don’t steal, of course, if that's possible.

May God grant you to be a grated roll, not devoured by anyone's gang, neither be a victim nor an executioner, neither a gentleman nor a beggar.

May God grant fewer lacerations, when there is a big fight. God grant more different countries, without losing yours, however.

God grant that your country I didn't kick you with a boot. God grant that your wife I loved you even as a beggar.

May God grant the liars to shut their mouths, hearing the voice of God in a child’s cry. May God grant the living to see Christ, even if not in a man’s face, then in a woman’s face.

It’s not the cross – we bear crosslessness, and how poorly we bend. So as not to believe everything, God willing, at least a little bit!

God bless you with everything, everything, everything and to everyone at once - so as not to offend... God grant everything, but only that for which you won’t feel ashamed later.

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