Shadow of the Balkans

On September 25, 1941, the "svodka" published a report on the death of five Russian residents of the NDH at the hands of the Chetniks, among whom were former Russian officers Colonel Ilya Fedorovich Filippov and Lieutenant Colonel Semyon Mikhailovich Rogov from Kulen-Vakuf, engineer Sergei Vasilyevich Beloborodov from Bihac, as well as Captain Nikolai Konstantinovich Savinkov from Metkovic and Colonel E.I. Smirnov from Drvar.

Dear comrades,
after 15 years of battles, persecutions and sacrifices,
the youth of Romania must know
that the hour of the legionary victory isn't far anymore.

All of our enemies attempts will be crushed.
All their plans of tempting us,
All their attempts to buying our souls,
All their attempts to separate us,
and all treasons will fall to the ground.

Look at all your tyrants straight in their eyes.

Endure with submission any blow,
endure any pain,
because our sacrifices will be the iron foundation
made of broken bodies
and tortured souls,
of our victory.

Those, among us, who will fall
will have names and tombs of heroes,
and those who will kill us
will bear names of traitors
and will be cursed from generation to generation.

From the depths, the legionnaire rises victorious
with his soul like a cliff.