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The entire poem was mentioned in the Canadian historical novel, Four Steps to Death, by John Wilson, in which Red Army soldiers sing it on the way from Moscow to Stalingrad (present-day Volgograd). In fact, the name of the novel is derived from a part of the last line of the poem, "And here there are four steps to death."
The song is part of the repertoire of the Alexandrov Ensemble.
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