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Article: Day of freedom. (poem)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Uzbekistan, you now have freedom, Your own flag, your own standard, your own splendor, You have three hundred million fellow Turks - And you also have the wide world.
Today, my homeland, be satisfied, Be steadfast with your friends and enemies. Be whatever you wish, but be strong - Your time has come, your age is here.
Today you have few troops and armies, Faced with one hundred thousand dangers, Should there be rebellion or an attack - May the Truth forbid - you have your sacrifice.
You have no atom bombs, missiles, or splendor, But you have enough gold and uranium, Whose treasury is the planet Earth, You have your Turkistan, your Turan.
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