My friend Andrei Martyanov identified the following song for me. I did not know about the musical group, Elis, nor the woman singing, Simone Christinat. The song and video tell the story of Russian special operations forces.
Lyrics of Voennay Razvetka aka Military Intelligence
From war to war you serve the country, trusting life to God and fate, beats restlessly, you are not sleeping again, a heart in the chest, a bat on the back …
You’ve been to the mountains and you’ve seen death like in nightmares there to sleep everywhere
10 were leaving, 9 were on their way back, a brother was blown up by a mine.
He’s just like you, daredevil whole head, legs to hip
Your life is a game, the stakes are high either war and death or life and peace
Chorus: Bloody snow of the Caucasus There are guys from the special forces By order they fall under the shots Military intelligence, errors are extremely rare No longer children, but relatives and friends
Like steel dogs with a tramp’s heart you are already used to it,
your hand does not tremble, but the soul trembles when they are waiting at home,
and you’re there through the forest to cut a path,
like a parachute in the sky clouds you are now native with them for centuries, let them tell you that I swear, I admire, I’m proud, I love, I’ll wait …
Chorus: Bloody snow of the Caucasus There are guys from the special forces By order they fall under the shots Military intelligence
Little echo, tears and laughter, I hear you breathe, then louder then quieter, I believe you will come back and hold tight to my cheeks, I pray to the gods but while I’m here, and you’re there…
Chorus: Bloody snow of the Caucasus There are guys from the special forces By order they fall under the shots Military intelligence
The translation qualifies as poetry.
nice. My greatest respect to all Russian soldiers and allies, now fighting for the good of humanity.
“Military Intelligence is to Intelligence as Military Music is to Music.” — Received wisdom my widowed working-class mother imparted to me back in elementary school in the 1950s. Or, we could send some Christian Crusaders to sack Constantinople or Baghdad again:
Mr. Johnson –
Here’s a similar Russian video and song for the RF special forces titled “Spetsnaz”.
The female soloist Natalya Samoylova is a popular singer in Russia and in this
video she is wearing the Order of Saint George medal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Vxwb-gJ1Q
The sentiments of both videos remind me of the quote from the Strategic Culture
Foundation’s recent interview with Russell Bentley who is living in the Donetsk
People’s Republic.
“Who defends Russia, defends the future of humanity. And humanity includes all good people of all nations”.
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/05/18/us-nato-waging-war-with-russia-in-ukraine-but-russia-assured-victory-russell-bentley/
best regards,
Cannot access strategic-culture – an Error 403 Page Denied looks like a server problem.
This works for me. https://www.strategic-culture.org
Problem fixed – it is IPv6, and it looks like a different webserver is resolved. Turn off IPv6, and IPv4 accesses the correct server. There was a developer server up for a while.
Great song and thanks for the translation.
It instantly reminded me of “Foolish Games” by Jewel (1995) could it be that Elis had drawn some inspiration from her?
Dear Larry,
Thank you for your work.
Your sites is one of the rare gems or “jewels”.
Ah good ear and a reminder of a good song!
Here are the lyrics of a failed coup d’etat by the same people who accuse others of technique and manipulation. Tory wanted to be an artist but for her unmitigated mediocrity; so this is as good as it gets. You, the American pubic, are her mignons, pawns in a very bad game of chess:
Transcript Still Online
The BBC on Feb. 7, 2014 — 14 days before Yanukovych was toppled — published a transcript of the Nuland-Pyatt conversation. Consortium News is republishing the transcript here, lest it be removed from the internet as well:
Warning: This transcript contains swearing.
Voice thought to be Nuland’s: What do you think?
Voice thought to be Pyatt’s: I think we’re in play. The Klitschko [Vitaly Klitschko, one of three main opposition leaders] piece is obviously the complicated electron here. Especially the announcement of him as deputy prime minister and you’ve seen some of my notes on the troubles in the marriage right now so we’re trying to get a read really fast on where he is on this stuff. But I think your argument to him, which you’ll need to make, I think that’s the next phone call you want to set up, is exactly the one you made to Yats [Arseniy Yatseniuk, another opposition leader]. And I’m glad you sort of put him on the spot on where he fits in this scenario. And I’m very glad that he said what he said in response.
Nuland: Good. I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t think it’s a good idea.
Pyatt: Yeah. I guess… in terms of him not going into the government, just let him stay out and do his political homework and stuff. I’m just thinking in terms of sort of the process moving ahead we want to keep the moderate democrats together. The problem is going to be Tyahnybok [Oleh Tyahnybok, the other opposition leader] and his guys and I’m sure that’s part of what [President Viktor] Yanukovych is calculating on all this.
Nuland: [Breaks in] I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience. He’s the… what he needs is Klitsch and Tyahnybok on the outside. He needs to be talking to them four times a week, you know. I just think Klitsch going in… he’s going to be at that level working for Yatseniuk, it’s just not going to work.
Pyatt: Yeah, no, I think that’s right. OK. Good. Do you want us to set up a call with him as the next step?
Nuland: My understanding from that call – but you tell me – was that the big three were going into their own meeting and that Yats was going to offer in that context a… three-plus-one conversation or three-plus-two with you. Is that not how you understood it?
Pyatt: No. I think… I mean that’s what he proposed but I think, just knowing the dynamic that’s been with them where Klitschko has been the top dog, he’s going to take a while to show up for whatever meeting they’ve got and he’s probably talking to his guys at this point, so I think you reaching out directly to him helps with the personality management among the three and it gives you also a chance to move fast on all this stuff and put us behind it before they all sit down and he explains why he doesn’t like it.
Nuland: OK, good. I’m happy. Why don’t you reach out to him and see if he wants to talk before or after.
Pyatt: OK, will do. Thanks.
Nuland: OK… one more wrinkle for you Geoff. [A click can be heard] I can’t remember if I told you this, or if I only told Washington this, that when I talked to Jeff Feltman [United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs] this morning, he had a new name for the UN guy Robert Serry did I write you that this morning?
Pyatt: Yeah I saw that.
Nuland: OK. He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday. So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, Fuck the EU.
Pyatt: No, exactly. And I think we’ve got to do something to make it stick together because you can be pretty sure that if it does start to gain altitude, that the Russians will be working behind the scenes to try to torpedo it. And again the fact that this is out there right now, I’m still trying to figure out in my mind why Yanukovych (garbled) that. In the meantime there’s a Party of Regions faction meeting going on right now and I’m sure there’s a lively argument going on in that group at this point. But anyway we could land jelly side up on this one if we move fast. So let me work on Klitschko and if you can just keep… we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing. The other issue is some kind of outreach to Yanukovych but we probably regroup on that tomorrow as we see how things start to fall into place.
Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.
Pyatt: OK. Great. Thanks.
CORRECTION: This article previously said the removed video was the most watched version of the leaked call. A version from a Russian YouTube channel with Russian subtitles, still available, has garnered 1.4 million views. It may have been de-ranked on YouTube’s search as it is difficult to find, whereas the removed version was near the top of a search request.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/05/25/nuland-pyatt-tape-removed-from-youtube-after-8-years/
Re https://sonar21.com/two-examples-of-russias-use-of-drone-warfare/, second video. “This video encapsulates the horror of war and the incredible bravery of both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers” with the same background music.
The Ukrainian soldier who bravely fought back – at 3:17 he lobbed back a hand grenade! What was his name?? A true hero, irrespective on who’s side you are on. What was his name??
I confess to slightly watery eyes after listening and reading.