This song being broadcast on a national channel in the time when there were two national channels was one of the things that really ended Finlandization… I woke in the mornings as a high school student and switched on Rinnakkaisradio and their morning rock show and they would play this and other bloody defiant Estonian punk songs. Keisri hull made me first an estophile and then these things coming after, god…
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hwyl1066
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Чего ты болтаешь? (Ma olen internats!)
Проклятый Эстонец! (Ma olen internats!)
По морду не хочешь! (Ma olen internats!)
Тебе что не нравится советская власт?! (На хуй!)
🙂
And all that fervent interest and the fear for Estonians rising against the Soviet Union… I came from Southern Ostrobothnian pietist circles where Estonia was well known and much mourned but I think this feeling was pretty universal in those times. And it hasn’t really gone anywhere ever since.
[There is a very nice tribute to this song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9K2Y1UH02c)