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"Soha da borona razteriali naši doma; volynka da gudok soberi naš domok!"

original: Соха да борона разтериали наши дома; волынка да гулок собери наш домок!

"Plough and harrow ruined [frayed?] our houses; Bagpipe and fiddle restore our homes!": [implying?]; Expression used to tease the Belarussians.


Sources

Morgenstern, Ullrich: "Nothing but a bagpipe" [Subtitle in [table of] Contents: "- a study of the Russian volynka"]. In: SIMP, new series, I (Münster, 2009), p.211 (»Dal’).