Soldiers took encouragement from it as a statement of their duty to those who died while people on the home front viewed it as defining the cause for which their brothers and sons were fighting.
Солдаты восприняли это, как утверждение долга перед погибшими, а люди в тылу видели в поэме дело, за которое боролись их сыновья и дочери, мужья и братья.