Russian songs translated: Cuckoo (Sing with us)

Russians like to count how many years they have left to live when they hear a cuckoo in the forest. One of the last songs by the legendary Soviet rock singer Viktor Tsoi is about this fatalism and openness to a difficult fate.

This philosophical composition was released by rock band 'KINO' on their eighth and final album in 1990, but it was composed by its lead singer, Viktor Tsoi, a year earlier and was one of his