Choose your friends wisely.
When self-interest hides itself in the guise of friendship, -
She's just digging a hole for you.
To understand this truth even more clearly,
Listen to my fables.
In the winter the Light smoldered under the Grove;
Apparently, here he was forgotten by the road.
Hour by hour the Fire became weaker;
No new firewood; My fire burns a little
And, seeing its end, so the Grove says:
“Tell me, dear Grove!
Why is your lot so cruel
That you can't see a single leaf
And are you completely naked? " -
“Then what, all covered in snow,
In winter I can neither turn green, nor bloom ",
This is how Grove responds to fire.
"Trifle!" The fire continues to her:
“Just make friends with me; I will help you.
I am a brother of the suns, and sometimes in winter
I build miracles no less than the sun.
Ask about Fire in greenhouses:
In winter, when all around and snow and blizzard blows,
Everything is there either blooming or maturing:
Thank you for everything.
Praising yourself at least doesn't fit,
And I don't like boasting
But I will in no way yield to the sun in power.
No matter how arrogantly it shone here,
But without harm to the snow, I went down for the night;
And beside me, watch the snow melt,
So if you want to turn green in winter,
As in summer and spring,
Give me a corner! "
Here is the deal: already in the Grove of Ogonyok
Becomes Fire, Fire does not sleep:
Runs along the branches, along the knots;
Black smoke rushes to the clouds in clubs
And the fierce flame suddenly embraces the whole Grove.
Everything was completely lost - and there, where in the sultry days
A passer-by took refuge in the shadows,
Only burnt stumps are alone
And there is nothing to wonder:
How can a tree be friends with fire?

It is with its warmth

Huge oaks and cedars warms

And amazing beauty

Richly removes fragrant flowers;

Yes, only those flowers

It's not at all that you:

They are of such a price and beauty,

That time itself, pitying, mows them down,

And you are neither magnificent nor smelly,

So don't torment the sun with your dock!

Believe that it will not throw a ray at you,

And stop striving for nothing,

Shut up and vian! "

But the sun rose, the nature lit up.

Rays scattered across Florin's kingdom,

And poor cornflower, withered in the night,

Heavenly gaze revived.

O you, to whom fate has been given

High rank!

You take an example from my sun!

See:

Wherever a ray reaches it, there it is

Whether it is an epic tale, or a cedar, is charity equal

And joy in itself and happiness leaves;

But his sight burns in all hearts,

Like a pure ray in oriental crystals,

And everything blesses him.

XI. Grove and Fire

Choose your friends wisely.

When self-interest hides itself in the guise of friendship, -

She's just digging a hole for you.

To understand this truth even more clearly,

Listen to my fables.

In winter, the Fire under the Grove smoldered;

Apparently, here he was forgotten by the road.

Hour by hour the Fire became weaker;

No new firewood; My fire burns a little

And, seeing its end, so the Grove says:

“Tell me, dear Grove!

Why is your lot so cruel

That you can't see a single leaf

And you are freezing completely naked? " -

“Then what, all covered in snow,

In winter I can neither turn green, nor bloom ", -

This is how Grove responds to fire.

"Trifle! - The fire continues to her, -

Just make friends with me; I will help you.

I am a brother of suns and sometimes in winter

I build miracles no less than the sun.

Ask about Fire in greenhouses:

In winter, when all around and snow and blizzard blows,

Everything is there either blooming or maturing:

Thank you for everything.

Praising yourself at least doesn't fit,

And I don't like boasting

But I will not yield to the sun in strength,

No matter how arrogantly it shone here,

But without harm to the snow, I went down for the night;

And beside me, watch the snow melt,

So if you want to turn green in winter,

As in summer and spring,

Give me a corner! "

Here is the deal: it's already in the Grove Ogonyok

Becomes Fire; The fire does not sleep:

Runs along the branches, along the knots;

Black smoke rushes to the clouds in clubs

And the fierce flame suddenly embraces the whole Grove.

Everything was completely lost - and there, where in the sultry days

A passer-by took refuge in the shadows,

Only burnt hemp stands alone.

And there is nothing to wonder:

How can a tree be friends with fire?

XII. Siskin and Hedgehog

Loving solitude

The timid siskin chirped to himself at dawn,

Not so that he wanted praise,

And not at all; so somehow it was sung!

Behold, in splendor and in all glory,

Phoebus the radiant of the seas

Has risen.

It seemed that he brought life with him to everything,

And to meet him

A chorus of loud nightingales in the dense forests rang out.

My Siskin fell silent. "Well, what are you, -

The hedgehog asked him with a sneer, -

Buddy, can you sing? " -

So that I dignified Phoebus, -

Through tears the poor Siskin answered, -

So I crash and regret

That the lyre of Pindar was not given to me for my inheritance:

I would sing Alexandra.

XIII. Wolf and Lamb

The strong is always to blame for the powerless:

We hear a lot of examples of that in History,

But we do not write History;

But about how they say in Fables.

On a hot day, a lamb went to the stream to get drunk

And trouble must happen,

That a hungry Wolf was prowling around those places.

He sees the lamb, he strives for the bull;

But, to give the case, although a legal form and sense,

Shouts: "How dare you, impudent, with an unclean snout

It's pure to stir up the drink here

With sand and silt?

For such insolence

I'll rip your head off. "

"When the lightest Wolf allows,

I dare to convey that below the stream

From the Grace of his steps I drink a hundred;

And he will deign to be angry in vain:

I can’t stir up his drinking in any way ”.

“That’s why I’m lying!

Waste! Have you ever heard such audacity in the world!

Yes, I remember that you are still in the last summer

Somehow he was rude to me here:

I have not forgotten this, buddy! "

"Have mercy, I am still not a year old", -

The lamb speaks.

There is a unique monument in the Cherkasy region 150 borderline to dogs, who "tore" the regiment of fascists in hand-to-hand combat. This battle of people and dogs, the only one in the history of world wars and conflicts, took place in the very center of Ukraine many years ago, and it was like this ...

It was the third month of the war, or rather, it had just begun, when at the end of July events took place that first changed the course of the Great Patriotic War, or the entire course of the "Eastern Company," as the war was called at headquarters. Few know that, by his own order, Kiev was supposed to fall by August 3, and on the 8th, he was going to come to the capital of Ukraine for the "victory parade", and not alone, but with the leader of Italy Mussolini and the dictator of Slovakia Tissot.

It was not possible to take Kiev in the "forehead", and an order was received to bypass it from the south ... So a terrible word appeared in human rumor "Green Brama", an area not indicated on any maps of the great battles of the Great War. This wooded and hilly massif on the right bank of the Sinyukha River, near the villages of Podvyskoye in the Novoarkhangelsk region of the Kirovograd region and Lehezino of the Talnovsky region of the Cherkasy region is known only today as one of the most tragic events of the first months. And even then, thanks to the fact that a famous songwriter was a participant in fierce battles during the Uman defensive operation Evgeny Aronovich Dolmatovsky... With the release in 1985 of his book "Green Brama" (full format), the secret of "Green Brama" was revealed ...

In these places, the 6th and 12th armies of the Southwestern Front, generals Muzychenko and Ponedelin, were surrounded and were almost completely destroyed. By the beginning of August, they counted 130 thousand people, from Brahma 11 thousand came out to their own soldiers and officers, mainly from the rear. The rest were either captured, or forever remained in the Zelenyaya Brama tract ...

In a separate battalion of the border guard detachment of the rear of the Southwestern Front, which was created on the basis of the Separate Kolomiya border commandant's office and the border detachment of the same name, retreating from the border with heavy battles, were service dogs... Together with the soldiers of the border detachment, they steadfastly endured all the hardships of the harsh time.

The battalion commander, who is also the deputy chief of staff of the Kolomiya border detachment, Major Lopatin (according to other sources, the combined detachment was commanded by Major Filippov), despite the extremely poor conditions of detention, the lack of proper food and the offers of the command to release the dogs, did not do this. At the village of Legedzino, the battalion, covering the retreat of the headquarters units of the command of the Uman army group, took its the last battle...

The forces were too unequal: against half a thousand border guards - a regiment of fascists. And at a critical moment, when the Germans launched another attack, Major Lopatin gave the order to send border guards and service dogs with the Nazis. This was the last reserve.

The sight was terrible: 150 (different data - from 115 to 150 border dogs, including from the Lviv border school of service dog breeding) trained, half-starved shepherd dogs, against the fascists pouring automatic fire on them. Sheepdogs stuck in the throats of the fascists even in their dying cramps.

The enemy, literally bitten and chopped down with bayonets, retreated, but tanks came to the rescue. Bitten German infantrymen, with lacerated wounds and screams of horror, jumped onto the armor of tanks and shot the poor dogs. In this fight all 500 border guards were killed, not one of them surrendered.

And the surviving dogs, according to eyewitnesses - residents of the village of Legedzino, remained faithful to their guides to the end. Each of those who survived in that meat grinder lay down next to their master and did not allow anyone to approach him. German animals shot every shepherd, and those of them who were not shot by the Germans refused food and died of hunger in the field ...

Even the village dogs got it - the Germans shot the large dogs of the villagers, even those who were on a leash. Only one shepherd was able to crawl to the hut and fell at the door. The devoted four-legged friend was sheltered, went out, and by the collar on her, the villagers learned that these were border dogs not only of the Kolomiya border commandant's office, but also of the special school of service dog breeding of the captain M.E. Kozlova.

After that battle, when the Germans gathered their dead, according to the recollections of the inhabitants of the village (unfortunately, there are not many left in this world), it was allowed to bury the Soviet border guards. Everyone who was found was gathered in the center of the field and buried together with their faithful four-legged assistants, and the secret of the burial was hidden for many years ...

Researcher of that memorable battle Alexander Fuka says that the memory of the heroism of the border guards and their assistants among the inhabitants of the village was so great that, despite the presence of the German occupation administration and a detachment of policemen, half of the village boys proudly wore the green caps of the dead. And the locals who buried the border guards, hiding from the Nazis, tore out photographs of the dead from the Red Army books and officer's certificates, so that they could then be sent for identification (keeping such documents was a mortal danger, so it was not possible to establish the names of the heroes).

And the planned triumphant meeting with Mussolini took place on August 18, but, of course, not in Kiev, but there, at Legedzino, on the route that led to Talny and which was held as their border by the Soviet border guards. Only in 1955, the residents of Legedzino were able to collect the remains of almost all 500 border guards and transfer them to the village school, near which the mass grave is located.

And on the outskirts of the village, where the world's only hand-to-hand combat of people and dogs with the Nazis took place, on May 9, 2003, on voluntary donations from veterans of the Great Patriotic War, border troops and dog handlers, was established the only monument in the world a man with a gun and his faithful friend - a dog. There is no such monument anywhere else.

“Stop and bow. Here, in July 1941, the soldiers of the separate Kolomyi border commandant's office rose up in the last attack on the enemy. 500 border guards and 150 their service dogs died a heroic death in that battle. They remained forever faithful to the oath, to their native land. "

Today the names of only two dead border guards are known ...

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. With weapons the devil names the resistance forces that gave him strength. Grads they are the forces of resistance that, like solid, walled cities, kept under their rule those captured by their charms. And what cities to talk to him about, besides those mentioned elsewhere: Thou didst put solid hailstones in the dust, and graze their foundations(Isa. 25, 2)? It is clear that this, as explained above, is the essence of resistance forces. Their memory perishes with noise, - their destruction became public. Understands - either final destruction, or the excessiveness of calamities, or the evidence of destruction.

Interpretation of the psalms.

St. John Chrysostom

Enemy will run out of weapons at the end, and thou hast destroyed the city: his memory will perish with noise

Another translator (Symmachus) says: ruins (eípia)... In Hebrew: desert (arwof). And destroyed cities... What does it mean? Having destroyed, he says, the machinations and designs of the wicked, you have deprived him of his own weapons. Such is the wrath of God: it destroys and destroys everything. Or, as another interpreter teaches us, who said - deserts: you not only destroyed their cities, but also destroyed their deserts, and destroyed their cities. This is how the righteous man waged war, and so he conquered his enemies, not using weapons and spears, but having help from God. Therefore, his war is brilliant and glorious, and his victory is solemn. "The memory of him died with a noise"... Another translator says (unknown translator, see Orig. Ex.): with them... In Hebrew: with him (uh)... What means: "With noise"? Means either perfect annihilation or common knowledge of calamities. And this is the work of the providence of God, that He does the judgment not secretly, so that by the punishments of some, others may be corrected. Thus, it expresses the manifestation of destruction.

Conversations on psalms. On psalm 9.

Blzh. Theodorite of Kirsky

Art. 7-9 "The enemy will run out of weapons in the end, and thou hast destroyed the cities"... The enemy has lost his own weapons, having no servants of wickedness. Those who gave themselves up to him as tools, those who have now gone over to the opposite side, are waging war against him. And the cities, after the destruction of the ancient wickedness that had settled in them, took upon themselves the labor of edifying piety. For it was impossible to establish piety without first crushing ungodliness. The divine Apostle also said this: "The grace of God appears, saving all man, punishing us, but rejecting wickedness and worldly lusts, we will live chastely and piously in the present day" etc. (Titus 2:11). Thus, each does not first rise with Christ, as having received communion in His death. This is why the divine Paul says: "If we planted the likeness of His death, then we will also be resurrection"(Rom. 6: 5); and further: “If we’re dead, and we will live”... So God, having crushed the wickedness of enemies, created piety.

"His memory will perish with noise." "And the Lord abides forever"... The enemy is thrown into a destruction visible to all and very obvious. This is what the expression means: "With noise" taken from houses falling during an earthquake and making a great crash. But God and our Sovereign, the Prophet says, has an eternal power and an infallible kingdom.

"His throne is ready for judgment." "And that judge and have the universe in truth, judge and have people in the right"... For not only in the present life he manifests his power, but also in the future he will open his terrible judgment seat, judging all people on it, and rewarding everyone that he deserves.

Euthymius Zigaben

To the enemy of the depletion of weapons at the end(there were no enemy swords at all) , and thou hast destroyed the cities.

By the weapons or swords of the enemy, we must understand here those unclean passions, struck by which our soul then becomes dead for good deeds and seems to be buried in its body, as in a grave. But when the wickedness of the pagans was destroyed and piety was planted and established in its place, then at the same time, their cities themselves seemed to fall. Or also: under cities one can mean people in which demons have their dwellings. It will also not be out of place if by cities we begin to understand the wicked temples of idols.

Perish his memory(their) with noise.

For no one already knew how to offer him (the devil) a sacrifice, or even how to call him in prayer. Expression noisily means the same thing as with a cry, for the demonic cries among people have completely disappeared. Or also: noisily, that is, the enemy perished along with his pride, or with the cry of sacrificial songs. Speech here refers to Satan itself, it is precisely here that he is called both the wicked and the enemy, with which it is meant, of course, to defeat the chief of the hostile forces, as the one who was guilty of the indignation of these very forces. But heading against him, she strikes together and these latter.