Maljčiki

"Maljčiki"
Single by VIS Idoli
from the album Paket aranžman
B-side	Retko te viđam sa devojkama
Released	1981
Format	7"
Recorded	1981
Genre	New wave, ska
Length	3:20
Label	Jugoton
Writer(s)	Srđan Šaper Vlada Divljan
Producer(s)	Goran Bregović

"Malcziki"
Single by Yugoton feat. Kazik
from the album Yugoton
B-side	Malcziki (yugo-wersja) Malcziki (wersja soute)
Released	2001
Format	CD
Recorded	2000/2001
Genre	New wave revival
Length	3:29
Label	ZIC ZAC Music Company BMG
Writer(s)	(S. Šaper, V. Divljan)

"Maljčiki" (Serbian Cyrillic: Маљчики, Russian for "Boys") is the second single by the Serbian and former Yugoslav new wave music band Idoli. It also appeared on the Yugoslav new wave compilation Paket aranžman which is one of the most important Yugoslav rock releases.

Vlada Divljan, the member of Idoli wanted to create a song which would be a parody on the Soviet Socialist realism. The song depicts a sort of Stakhanov-like proletarian who enthusiastically wakes up in the early dawn to go to work in a mine and a metallurgy factory. The official release of the song featured the following lyrics: "Plamene zore bude me iz sna; Fabrička jutra, dim iz dimnjaka" ("Dawns on fire, wake me from my dream; Factory mornings, smoke from the chimney").

However, the original unreleased version of the lyrics was: "Kakane zore, bude me iz sna; Kakana jutra, kakan sam i ja" ("Shitty dawns, wake me from my dream; Shitty mornings, I am also shitty"). But when the band entered the studio with the producer Goran Bregović, the record label Jugoton did not want to release the song with these lyrics, so they were changed.

The song also included ethnic Russian music elements and some nebulose Russian language lyrics that nobody from the band could understand. The Russian language part on the officially released version was narrated by Dragan Papić who was the band's manager at that time.

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