A nation of serfs - v3

Russia wants to return Ukraine

back to two centuries in her history,

as it was in Shevchenko's time,

making of this noble people 

a nation of serfs in service 

to a false Tsar, their dictator, 

Putin the Illegitimate...

Everything destroyed, rumble,

innocents killed, scattered,

all ground to dust, in blood,

A people defeated, subjugated,

a nation of slaves, of serfs,

of a cruel master, repugnant,

an evil nation state...

But somehow Muscovy, the Kremlin, 

does not even know its neighbor,

its resolute spirit, freedom, hope,

tasting once more independence

when the Soviet Union crumbled,

United, defiantly saying never, 

to Putin the Illegitimate...

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

#LetUkraineStrikeBack

#TarasShevchenko 

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