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Voennay Razvetka–Military Intelligence

31 May 2022 by Larry Johnson 12 Comments

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

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  1. davidgmillsatty says

    31 May 2022 at 22:41

    The translation qualifies as poetry.

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  2. windwaves says

    31 May 2022 at 23:26

    nice. My greatest respect to all Russian soldiers and allies, now fighting for the good of humanity.

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  3. Michael Murry says

    31 May 2022 at 23:49

    “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:

    Peace With Horror

    A leper knight rode into view
    Astride his mangy steed
    A harbinger of violence
    A plague without a need
    An apparition of discord
    Upon which fear would feed

    His unannounced arrival meant
    He’d lost his leper’s bell
    And yet his ugly innocence
    Could not conceal the smell
    His good intentions only paved
    Another road to Hell

    With mace and lance and sword deployed
    He vowed in peace to live
    Through rotting lips he promised not
    To take, but only give
    He swore to only kill the ones
    Whom he said shouldn’t live

    He did not speak the language and
    He did not know the land
    So why the healthy shrank from him
    He could not understand
    Why did they want the water when
    He’d offered them the sand?

    Committing to commitments he
    Committed crimes galore
    As steadfast in his loyalties
    As any purchased whore
    A mercenary madman like
    His slogan: “Peace through War”

    His slaying for salvation masked
    An inner, grasping greed
    A lust for living good and well
    While looking past his deed
    A dead man walking wakefully;
    A graveyard gone to seed

    He planned to leave in “phases,” so
    He said to those back home
    Who’d heard some nasty rumors rife
    From Babylon to Rome
    Of murders in their name meant to
    Exalt their sacred tome

    But still he needed to “protect”
    Some pilgrims on the road
    Who for “protection” glumly paid
    A portion of their load:
    For this decaying derelict,
    An object episode

    When asked to give a summary
    Of what he had achieved
    He shifted to the future tense
    The gains that he perceived
    And spoke in the subjunctive mood
    To those he had aggrieved

    “The future life to come portends
    More suffering than now.
    Through me alone can you avoid
    What I will disavow:
    The promises I never made
    While making, anyhow.”

    “I unsay things that I have said
    And say I never did;
    Then say them once again to pound
    The meaning deeply hid,
    Down where the lizard lives between
    The ego and the id.”

    “I’ve given you catastrophe
    And called it a success;
    If you want other outcomes then
    Step forward and confess
    That you believed a pack of lies
    With no strain, sweat, or stress.”

    “You know the meaning of my words
    Lasts only just as long
    As sound takes to decay in air
    So that you take them wrong
    If you assign significance
    To my sly siren song.”

    “A ‘propaganda catapult’
    I’ve called myself, in fact;
    A damning human document
    Which I myself redact
    At every opportunity
    With no concern for tact.”

    “If you think what I’ve done before
    Has caused me to repent
    Or dream that I, in any way,
    Might let up or relent
    Then I’ve got wars for you to buy,
    Or maybe just to rent.”

    “I’ve little time to live on earth,
    So why should I reflect
    Upon the dead and dying souls
    Whose lives I’ve robbed and wrecked?
    I care not if they hate, just that
    They know to genuflect.”

    Thus did the ruin of a world
    Continue in its curse;
    The great man on his horse relieved
    The faithful of their purse
    And gave them bad to save them from
    What they feared even worse

    So onward to Jerusalem
    He staggered as he slew
    In train with sack and booty that
    He only thought his due
    For spreading freedom’s germs among
    The last surviving few

    Michael Murry, “The Misfortune Teller,” Copyright 2008

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  4. local_host says

    1 June 2022 at 00:12

    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,

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    • bonbon says

      1 June 2022 at 04:52

      Cannot access strategic-culture – an Error 403 Page Denied looks like a server problem.

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      • Archie says

        1 June 2022 at 19:03

        This works for me. https://www.strategic-culture.org

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    • bonbon says

      8 June 2022 at 09:48

      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.

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  5. Maryanto says

    1 June 2022 at 01:25

    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”.

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  6. Cyrusaurelius says

    1 June 2022 at 06:06

    Ah good ear and a reminder of a good song!

    Reply
  7. mijkmijld says

    1 June 2022 at 09:35

    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/

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  8. Ormag says

    1 June 2022 at 11:10

    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??

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  9. Skorpion9mm says

    2 June 2022 at 18:30

    I confess to slightly watery eyes after listening and reading.

    Reply

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