The famous Soviet-Russian poet and composer Yegor Letov was widely known for his revolutionary texts, full of politicism and harsh reality. He sang his unshakable and indestructible ideological views in poems. According to his convictions, Letov was an ardent communist, from 1994 to 1998. supported the National Bolshevik Party and had a party membership card with number 4. This ideology was clearly reflected in his song “Everything goes according to plan”, first recorded 3 years before the collapse of the USSR and the beginning of perestroika. This composition can be safely called the Anthem of the generation.
The song “Everything goes according to plan” has an ironic and tragic character. Already in the name itself lies a bright postirony: everything goes according to plan, but according to what? Egor Letov seemed to foresee the global revolution that happened in the USSR in 1991. In addition, a connection arises with the typically Soviet meaning of the word “plan” - the five-year plan for four years and numerous norms in production. Even the economy in the USSR was called "planned." But, as you know, all these undertakings were unsuccessful, or took place with inconceivable human victims. According to such a plan, apparently, everything is going on.
The image of Lenin serves as a symbol of departed hopes, the end of a whole beautiful era of the dawn of revolution, when the people really believed in the socialist future of Russia. Ilyich’s imperishable body is a kind of irreversible decay process and a deadly apotheosis of particles of the “State”:
Border key is broken in half
And our father Lenin completely usop
It decomposed into mold and linden honey.
And perestroika everything goes and goes according to plan
And all the dirt turned into bare ice
The “mold” in this seven-fold is the personification of everything earthly, physical and monumental, and “linden honey” is the delight of the essence of communist utopianism. Metamorphoses of “mud into bare ice” serve as a kind of “exposure” of the inside of the perestroika putrefactive era. All that belief in the best, bright promises made by the new government, were only a mockery, a mockery of the whole state, people and era.
The symbolism of the flag of the Soviet Union evokes touching, pure and bright emotions in the lyric hero. He experiences aesthetic pleasure and nostalgic sweetness:
And my fate wanted to rest
I promised her not to participate in the war game
But on the cap on my sickle and hammer and star
How touching it is - a sickle and a hammer and a star
A dashing waiting lamp dangles ...
The image of the “wife” also serves as an important semantic component. She in this composition is the personification of the dying, close to the utter collapse and collapse of the Soviet Union. The author of the text shows all the bullying and abuse that the country has to endure. Here foresight comes into effect again: barbaric privatization, destruction of factories and enterprises, separation of republics, etc. The West is crushing, there is a total information war:
And my wife fed the crowd
With a world fist trampled her breasts
Freedom tore at her with popular freedom ...
The lyrical hero calls to experience at least a drop of respect in memory of her, as a whole dissolved epic:
So bury it in Christ -
because everything goes according to plan ...
Somewhere in the depths of the soul, a weak fire still smoldering still unquenched hope for a brighter future, but it is again wisely built, ingenious sarcastic postirony reflecting harsh reality. The author mockingly lists those promises divorced from reality that fed the hungry people all 70 years of Soviet rule:
And under communism, everything will be in%;
He will come soon - you just have to waitEverything will be free there, everything will be high
There probably will not be at all (to die)
I woke up in the middle of the night and realized that -
EVERYTHING GOES ACCORDING TO PLAN!
