Here's to brave Nadiya, a heroine true;
for she told despot Putin just what he could do!
In the courtroom on camera her digit she raised
against his sham justice, entirely unfazed.
So here's to one finger, the flag of the free -
look you who would force us all down on one knee.
Brave Nadiya'll tell you just where you can go:
stick your head up a dead bear's bum under the snow.*
Now Nadiya is free though 'found guilty' was stamped
for plans on the matter had to be revamped.
Two prize goons of Putin's had been locked away;
so he swapped Nadiya out for his spooks yesterday.
So here's to one finger, the flag of the free -
look you who would force us all down on one knee.
Brave Nadiya'll tell you just where you can go:
stick your head up a dead bear's bum under the snow.
Putin, the KGB man to the core,
as he ushered his goons back within Russia's door,
''Tis a pity,' he groused, 'though my plans were all laid,
that Nadiya so Ukrained right on my parade.
So here's to one finger, the flag of the free -
look you who would force us all down on one knee.
Brave Nadiya'll tell you just where you can go:
stick your head up a dead bear's bum under the snow.
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*A Ukraine pilot, accused of killing two Russian journalists, which she denied, she raised a finger to Putin's sham justice and to Russia as an occupying power in Ukraine. Her time in jail saw her mount a hunger strike and she was even elected in absentia to Ukraine's parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
*OK, these words are not hers, nor mine. It's an old comic (imperative) curse I heard in the 70's.
