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As you can imagine, vodka makes tongue-twisters more difficult... (Внимание! Нецензурная лексика! Warning! Profanity!)

The three-year-old does it better.

It's definitely worth checking out more poems by Анна Ахматова.  This video features Akhmatova herself reading her poem, "Последний тост," written during Stalin's oppressive rule.  You'll find the poem itself below.

ПОСЛЕДНИЙ ТОСТ

Я пью за разоённый дом,

За злую жизнь мою,

За одиночество вдвоём,

И за тебя я пью,-

За ложь меня предавших губ,

За мёртвый холод глаз,

За то, что мир жесток и груб,

За то, что Бог не спас.

  1934

Here's another song by Виктор Цой--"Когда твоя девушка больна." (No doubt Женя was singing this one to himself when he thought his продавщица was sick....) The lyrics for the song are under the video.