Yablochko

), "Ekh little apple on the saucer" (Эх яблочко, да на тарелочке!

Verses of this kind proliferated during the Russian Civil War, in Red, Black and White camps.

The song itself has nothing to do with apples, with its verse commonly being related to the political issues of the time.

A variant of this song, written by Yuliy Kim, is sung by Sharikov (transformed from a stray dog) before the medical commission in the 1988 film Heart of a Dog: "Эх, яблочко, да с голубикою.

(Erh, little apple, with bog blueberry, Come here bourgeois man, I'll gouge out your eye!).