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Lyrics for Everything's Going According to Plan (1988)



The key to our borders has been broken in two
And Our Father1 Lenin has withered away
He’s decomposed into mold and linden honey.
And the Perestroika is still going according to plan.
And the mud has turned into black ice, and everything is going according to plan.

And my destiny wants some rest.
I promised it not to join the game of war
But on my army cap, there is a hammer and a sickle and a star
How touching – a hammer, a sickle and a star
The dashing lantern of anticipation is dangling back and forth
And everything is going according to plan

And they fed my wife to the hordes
With the fist of the world they trampled on her chest
With worldwide liberty they tore apart her flesh
So bury her in Christ - and everything shall go according to plan

Only our grandfather Lenin was a good leader
All the other ones are such shit
All the others are enemies and total morons
Over bloody Russia falls a torrent of snow
Over the homeland, the land of our fathers, an insane snow was falling.

I bought a copy of “Korea”2 – they have it good too.
They have Comrade Kim Il-Sung, it’s the same over there.
I‘m sure that they have the same thing and everything is going according to plan.

When we get communism it’ll all be fucking great
It will come soon, we just gotta wait
Everything will be free there, it’ll be like we’re high
We probably won’t even have to die.
I woke up in the middle of the night and understood that everything is going according to the plan.


This song was featured on the episode Yegor Letov and the National Bolsheviks


  1. Archaic word for father. Also used to refer to priests ↩︎

  2. Russian language magazine about North Korea ↩︎