Дмитрий Быков - После СССР наступило бессовестное время - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

At Echo of Moscow, in the program "Amateurs" (December 10, 2015):

D. Bykov? ... still Soviet was a continuation of the Russian, but what happened after was already some kind of complete death. This is not a Russian tradition. What we had in the last thirty years diverges from the Russian tradition primarily because it disperses with conscience. Do you understand? It was an unscrupulous time.

V. Dymarsky? What 30 years do you mean? Brezhnev?

D. Bykov? No. Starting, I think, from about the 91st year, when we began to put up with what you can’t put up with. We say: look, there are new predators - well, that you are new people, these are entrepreneurs; Absolute marauders are coming - no, look, these are new people, they defeat Russian slavery. So they won. And what came instead of them is completely incomprehensible. And it is impossible to seriously talk to this. This is a tragedy that we took a lot in the 90s for granted. We said: well, how, except for Yeltsin, there is no one - yes? This all rests absolutely exactly against Karamzin’s poems: he himself is the culprit of all his unfortunate troubles, to endure that he can’t endure without meanness. We suffered too much, so it seems to me that the Russian tradition, the tradition of Russian conscience, Russian culture, in the 90s, alas, it was interrupted. And all that we have today is we reaping the fruits of that unscrupulousness. Do you understand? ...