Как сделана “Товарищ Парамонова”

The article is devoted to an analysis of one of the most popular songs of Aleksandr Galich, ‘Krasnyi treugol'nik’ (‘Red Triangle’, 1963 or 1964). The song is dominated by a narrative voice that could be classified as belonging to skaz, though actually we find a variety of voices, which constitutes the specifics of the song's artistic and verbal organization.As the song was composed in the early 1960s, the end of the “Thaw”, it is necessary to reconstruct Soviet realia and everyday life of this period referred to in the song, and comment on typically Soviet vocabulary. The song specifically contains references to Soviet foreign policy with regard to African countries, especially Ghana.