ISO of cheers (try #2!)

[R_L]

At 09:21 09/10/98 GMT0BST, you wrote:
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>Among the warcries listed on Thu, 8 Oct 1998 at 18:31:24 +200
>by Uladzimir L. Katkouski "Iz repertuara bolelshikov Dinamo Minsk
>vremen SSSR", the line
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>> Atakui nie atakui, vsio ravno poluchish gol.
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>stands out by virtue of the fact that it shares the metrical
>structure of the others, but unlike them, lacks a rhyme.  I suspect
>that there is in fact a rhyme implicit in this couplet, which you
>have all guessed by now, and if we make that substitution, the second
>tetrameter becomes identical with the last line of a chastushka
>popular in the same period:
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>Sprava molot, sleva serp:
>Eto nash sovetskij gerb.
>Khochesh' zhni, a khochesh' kuj,
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The usual case of replacing obscene word in rhyme position.
By the way, the chastushka mentioned has a similar variant with last line:
"Vse ravno poluchish' rubl'" (allusion to soviet gerb on the bank-notes and
coins).

R_L