I like the sensivity to put Mr. Churkin and Mr. Karlov beside other heros in this hybrid war, it gives a more clear view that this current world war is not only kinetic. Maybe Andrei Stenin and other journalists that found the same fate fighting professionally, should have been mentioned.
Roman Filippov in his dying breath took five of the terrorist mercenaries with him and he became one of a long line of Russia soldiers who have done the same. We had a memorial service at Battery for him shortly after the event, said event attended by a large number of his fellow warriors, many of whom had just returned to the base next to Battery from Syria.
It is a part of the Warrior’s Creed that you lose friends and comrades and these losses hurt, they hurt deeply, but the fight goes on against the forces of darkness who want to harness Russia and destroy her. With warriors such as these mentioned in the video, and there are many others just as brave as these men, no one will be able to crush Russia. No one.
It is not only Russian Warriors who exhibit a sense of bravery and loyalty to Russia. This past Saturday, 25 February, was the five year anniversary of another event. Five years ago that day my wife and I watched a dozen or so very brave men and women stand on a makeshift stage in Naxhimov Square in City Center of Sevastopol. Those men and women took it upon themselves, at very great risk to themselves and their families, to stand up for the rights of the citizens of Sevastopol, telling Kiev, USA, EU and The World that they would not recognize the coup d’etat in Kiev and Ukraine. By that evening our Berkut and Militsiya, who had arrived home not two days before after fighting their way from Kiev to Sevastopol and bringing their dead and wounded with them, blocked the roads coming in to Sevastopol and Krimea, and that afternoon the citizens began to blockade all the Uke bases and logistics centers in Sevastopol City and Sevastopol Region plus reinforcing our Berkut and Militsiya at the border blockades and Belbek Aerodrome.
It was two days after that the Krimea Administration in Simferopol and other cities in Krimea began to react and resist the coup government, and this only after volunteers from Sevastopol had gone to Simferopol Rada Complex in the dead of night and taken the complex to defend it from the Right Sector operatives who planned to burn it the very next day.
If our brave men and women had not publicly met and planned on that little stage in Naxhimov on that fateful day Krimea would have rolled over and played dead, allowing the Ukes to take control of the peninsula and we would have had fighting in our city and region. It is because of them, and our brave soldiers, that we are free. We will never forget that they did for us.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
Sevastopol, The Third Defense. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KRPLS4 Book 1, A Premonition. Set against a backdrop of real events and real places, the reader is left to filter fact from fiction.
Auslander, mой друг, your books offer to the audience a full-flavored and textured version (fictive) of soldiering and civilian action in your neighborhood before and during those hefty days.
I offer my endorsement to those who want to get inside the workings of the people of Krim and the true grassroots uprising that saved Sevastopol for the Black Sea Fleet and returned Krim to Mother.
Read Auslander’s works. You’ll have all five senses activated by his historic fiction.
445, my friend, I thank you for your compliments on my meager efforts at writing. Book 2 of Sevastopol, The Third Defense, is coming along quite well although with the fifth anniversary of our Russian Spring, vast amounts of informations have become public knowledge in the last three days. We knew all but I never write all I know.
Still and all, nowhere near all is public to this day so I will have to as usual parse what I say and write. We will be at Battery on the morrow and I’m sure the discussions will be spirited.
While SU gets all the fanfare, here is couple of MIG29’s doing unbelievable stunts, that even Hollywood would not dare to show in their “computer generated imagery”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Cgxy7N-V0
check out 1:40
Aus, I do, the planes also have the markings of the elite. But, isn’t it the hands of the guys who actually do the stunts? I also realize that very few pilots possess the skill that these guys do.
On the other hand, I missed something. It’s what Putin said in the above video: “Nobody has people like we do”.
Sorry, I’m used to folks seeing that vid and swearing the airframes are real. It’s the same with some of the 1/16 tank vids, some swear they are real what with the sounds recorded from the prototype. The operators of the aircraft are truly masters of their craft, no doubt.
I will have to get VCO to listen to the vid to ascertain if that is exactly what VVP said. At this moment VCO is working with the children, feeding and walking them, and woe betide anyone who disturbs that small lady whilst she is occupied with the little heathens.
Cranes are Flying / Летят журавли https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0yO6Q9NQyg
Soviet Russian film 1957 with English subtitles
Written by Victor Rozov / Виктор Розов
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov / Михаил Калатозов
Veronika – Tatyana Samoilova / Татьяна Самойлова
Boris – Alexey Batalov / Алексей Баталов
Sometimes I feel like the soldiers,
Who never returned from the bloodied fields,
Aren’t perished in our earth,
But turned into white cranes
Since those long gone times until today
They fly and give us signs, so we can hear them.
Isn’t this why so frequently and sorrowfully
We fall silent, watching the sky?
A tired flock is flying, flying up in the sky,
Through the fog, at the end of the day.
And among them there’s a small gap,
Perhaps that’s the place for me
The day will come when together with the cranes
I will float in that same blue-gray mist,
With a bird’s hailing out of the heavens,
Calling on all of you, whom I’ve had left down on earth.
Sometimes I feel like the soldiers,
Who never returned from the bloodied fields,
Aren’t perished in our earth,
But turned into white cranes
– It is difficult to find the person who doesn’t know the song “Cranes”.”It seems to me at times that sol-
diers” . . If you ask somebody to remember any song about war, the majority will call at once “Victory
Day”, but at once after it – “Cranes”.
– Thus, the few know history of this song, sincerely believing that it was written in the years of World
War II. But isn’t present, the song “Cranes”; later, much later – more than in 20 years after the end of
war was born.
– Let’s get acquainted with “Cranes”, slightly closer today. But at first we will remember this song, having listened to it in very first – and the best-known – execution. So, Mark Bernes (1968 of record)
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
– It all started on August 6, 1945 in Japan. It was on that terrible day that the atomic bomb was dropped
on Hiroshima. The two-year-old Sadako Sasaki’s house was only one and a half kilometers from the epi-
center of the explosion, but the girl not only survived – it seemed that she had not suffered any damage
at all. Until eleven, Sadako grew up the most ordinary child – active and fun. The girl went in for sports, participated in competitions … But suddenly her life became completely different. In November 1954,
Sadako showed the first signs of radiation sickness, and in February, the doctors made a terrible diag-
nosis: “leukemia” – blood cancer, which in Japan at that time was called “atomic bomb disease”.
– The girl was placed in the hospital, but there was no hope of recovery. Once Sadako’s best friend,
Chizuko, came to visit the sick and brought her an unusual gift: a paper crane. Chizuko told an ancient Japanese legend: those who fold a thousand paper cranes can make any wish, and it will be fulfilled.
Sadako dreamed of recovering. She began folding cranes, doing this all day. Any piece of paper that
fell into her hands turned into a paper bird.
– Often they write that Sadako managed to make only 644 cranes. But it is not. It’s just that in 1977 the
writer Eleanor Coher published a book called Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes, in which she told
about 644 cranes – allegedly, the sick girl did not have time to realize her dream. In fact, everything was
much sadder: Sadako made a thousand cranes, but … her wish was not fulfilled. The disease did not
go away. The girl continued to fight and put in more and more new cranes …
– Alas, life was cruel: Sadako died on October 25, 1955.
– The terrible and sad story of the girl made her a symbol of rejection of nuclear war. Monuments Sadako
were installed in different cities and countries. Of course, the most famous of them is in Hiroshima – in the
Park of the World. It was installed in 1958, and on its pedestal it says: “This is our cry, this is our prayer,
peace in the whole world.” And on the top of the dome-pedestal is a sculpture of Sadako with a paper
crane in her hands.
– Exactly 20 years after the end of the war, in 1965, the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov visited Japan.
He was shown the monument to Sadako and told her story. This story shook Gamzatov so much that he
never stopped thinking about a little Japanese woman and her cranes. But on that trip of the poet his own
grief overtook: he received a telegram in which his mother’s death was reported … But that Hiroshima girl
with paper cranes did not go away from memory. That was the way this poem was written. ”
– Yes, Gamzatov wrote the poem “Cranes” in his native Avar language, and the birds became a symbol of
all soldiers who died in the war. In 1968, Naum Grebnev translated the poem into Russian, and “Cranes”
were printed in the magazine “New World”.
(Google translation)
On the pictures below: on the left Rasul Gamzatov, on the right Naum Grebnev, and
at the bottom: on the left Mark Bernec, on the right Yan Frenkel https://audiomania.livejournal.com/69928.html
These are heroes, these are real men, these are warriors who have honour – they love their country and its people. RIP all of you.
In the “West” we just have mercenaries and no honour.
Meanwhile in over in Hollywood,
https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/fashion/oscars-2019-why-billy-porter-s-tuxedo-gown-is-the-most-important-outfit-of-the-night-1.829994
Meanwhile, American heroes . . . sort of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5VVXfJFj3c
I like the sensivity to put Mr. Churkin and Mr. Karlov beside other heros in this hybrid war, it gives a more clear view that this current world war is not only kinetic. Maybe Andrei Stenin and other journalists that found the same fate fighting professionally, should have been mentioned.
Roman Filippov in his dying breath took five of the terrorist mercenaries with him and he became one of a long line of Russia soldiers who have done the same. We had a memorial service at Battery for him shortly after the event, said event attended by a large number of his fellow warriors, many of whom had just returned to the base next to Battery from Syria.
It is a part of the Warrior’s Creed that you lose friends and comrades and these losses hurt, they hurt deeply, but the fight goes on against the forces of darkness who want to harness Russia and destroy her. With warriors such as these mentioned in the video, and there are many others just as brave as these men, no one will be able to crush Russia. No one.
It is not only Russian Warriors who exhibit a sense of bravery and loyalty to Russia. This past Saturday, 25 February, was the five year anniversary of another event. Five years ago that day my wife and I watched a dozen or so very brave men and women stand on a makeshift stage in Naxhimov Square in City Center of Sevastopol. Those men and women took it upon themselves, at very great risk to themselves and their families, to stand up for the rights of the citizens of Sevastopol, telling Kiev, USA, EU and The World that they would not recognize the coup d’etat in Kiev and Ukraine. By that evening our Berkut and Militsiya, who had arrived home not two days before after fighting their way from Kiev to Sevastopol and bringing their dead and wounded with them, blocked the roads coming in to Sevastopol and Krimea, and that afternoon the citizens began to blockade all the Uke bases and logistics centers in Sevastopol City and Sevastopol Region plus reinforcing our Berkut and Militsiya at the border blockades and Belbek Aerodrome.
It was two days after that the Krimea Administration in Simferopol and other cities in Krimea began to react and resist the coup government, and this only after volunteers from Sevastopol had gone to Simferopol Rada Complex in the dead of night and taken the complex to defend it from the Right Sector operatives who planned to burn it the very next day.
If our brave men and women had not publicly met and planned on that little stage in Naxhimov on that fateful day Krimea would have rolled over and played dead, allowing the Ukes to take control of the peninsula and we would have had fighting in our city and region. It is because of them, and our brave soldiers, that we are free. We will never forget that they did for us.
Auslander
Author
Never The Last One https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ZGCY8KK A deep look in to Russia, her culture and her Armed Forces, in essence a look at the emergence of Russian Federation.
Sevastopol, The Third Defense. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079KRPLS4 Book 1, A Premonition. Set against a backdrop of real events and real places, the reader is left to filter fact from fiction.
In print:
https://saker.community/product/sevastopol-the-third-defense-2013-2014-a-premonition-the-move-south/
https://saker.community/product/an-incident-on-simonka-a-novel-by-r-h-auslander-pdf-ed/
Auslander, mой друг, your books offer to the audience a full-flavored and textured version (fictive) of soldiering and civilian action in your neighborhood before and during those hefty days.
I offer my endorsement to those who want to get inside the workings of the people of Krim and the true grassroots uprising that saved Sevastopol for the Black Sea Fleet and returned Krim to Mother.
Read Auslander’s works. You’ll have all five senses activated by his historic fiction.
445, my friend, I thank you for your compliments on my meager efforts at writing. Book 2 of Sevastopol, The Third Defense, is coming along quite well although with the fifth anniversary of our Russian Spring, vast amounts of informations have become public knowledge in the last three days. We knew all but I never write all I know.
Still and all, nowhere near all is public to this day so I will have to as usual parse what I say and write. We will be at Battery on the morrow and I’m sure the discussions will be spirited.
Auslander
RIP, heroes. Вечная память вам.(Translation:Eternal memory to you.MOD)
While SU gets all the fanfare, here is couple of MIG29’s doing unbelievable stunts, that even Hollywood would not dare to show in their “computer generated imagery”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Cgxy7N-V0
check out 1:40
You do understand these are masterfully build RC models, yes?
Auslander
Aus, I do, the planes also have the markings of the elite. But, isn’t it the hands of the guys who actually do the stunts? I also realize that very few pilots possess the skill that these guys do.
On the other hand, I missed something. It’s what Putin said in the above video: “Nobody has people like we do”.
Anonius,
Sorry, I’m used to folks seeing that vid and swearing the airframes are real. It’s the same with some of the 1/16 tank vids, some swear they are real what with the sounds recorded from the prototype. The operators of the aircraft are truly masters of their craft, no doubt.
I will have to get VCO to listen to the vid to ascertain if that is exactly what VVP said. At this moment VCO is working with the children, feeding and walking them, and woe betide anyone who disturbs that small lady whilst she is occupied with the little heathens.
Auslander
Pffttt….
This is nothing compared to America’s manly military heroes.
Here is one representative photo of the awe-inspiring, chest-beating type of manhood that America produces:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/03/02/central-valley-marines-homecoming-kiss-becomes-facebook-sensation/
Eat your heart out, Russia! ;-)
Would you please add the names of these men, who sacrificed themselves for humanity, in Latin alphabet to the last few stillframes of the film.
Someone already wrote the kindest words for them: https://youtu.be/FhKgYrJ4IKw
Cranes are Flying / Летят журавли
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0yO6Q9NQyg
Soviet Russian film 1957 with English subtitles
Written by Victor Rozov / Виктор Розов
Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov / Михаил Калатозов
Veronika – Tatyana Samoilova / Татьяна Самойлова
Boris – Alexey Batalov / Алексей Баталов
Cranes / Журавли
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCadJ8llXBw
The Cranes
Sometimes I feel like the soldiers,
Who never returned from the bloodied fields,
Aren’t perished in our earth,
But turned into white cranes
Since those long gone times until today
They fly and give us signs, so we can hear them.
Isn’t this why so frequently and sorrowfully
We fall silent, watching the sky?
A tired flock is flying, flying up in the sky,
Through the fog, at the end of the day.
And among them there’s a small gap,
Perhaps that’s the place for me
The day will come when together with the cranes
I will float in that same blue-gray mist,
With a bird’s hailing out of the heavens,
Calling on all of you, whom I’ve had left down on earth.
Sometimes I feel like the soldiers,
Who never returned from the bloodied fields,
Aren’t perished in our earth,
But turned into white cranes
The story of one song “Cranes”
– It is difficult to find the person who doesn’t know the song “Cranes”.”It seems to me at times that sol-
diers” . . If you ask somebody to remember any song about war, the majority will call at once “Victory
Day”, but at once after it – “Cranes”.
– Thus, the few know history of this song, sincerely believing that it was written in the years of World
War II. But isn’t present, the song “Cranes”; later, much later – more than in 20 years after the end of
war was born.
– Let’s get acquainted with “Cranes”, slightly closer today. But at first we will remember this song, having listened to it in very first – and the best-known – execution. So, Mark Bernes (1968 of record)
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
– It all started on August 6, 1945 in Japan. It was on that terrible day that the atomic bomb was dropped
on Hiroshima. The two-year-old Sadako Sasaki’s house was only one and a half kilometers from the epi-
center of the explosion, but the girl not only survived – it seemed that she had not suffered any damage
at all. Until eleven, Sadako grew up the most ordinary child – active and fun. The girl went in for sports, participated in competitions … But suddenly her life became completely different. In November 1954,
Sadako showed the first signs of radiation sickness, and in February, the doctors made a terrible diag-
nosis: “leukemia” – blood cancer, which in Japan at that time was called “atomic bomb disease”.
– The girl was placed in the hospital, but there was no hope of recovery. Once Sadako’s best friend,
Chizuko, came to visit the sick and brought her an unusual gift: a paper crane. Chizuko told an ancient Japanese legend: those who fold a thousand paper cranes can make any wish, and it will be fulfilled.
Sadako dreamed of recovering. She began folding cranes, doing this all day. Any piece of paper that
fell into her hands turned into a paper bird.
– Often they write that Sadako managed to make only 644 cranes. But it is not. It’s just that in 1977 the
writer Eleanor Coher published a book called Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes, in which she told
about 644 cranes – allegedly, the sick girl did not have time to realize her dream. In fact, everything was
much sadder: Sadako made a thousand cranes, but … her wish was not fulfilled. The disease did not
go away. The girl continued to fight and put in more and more new cranes …
– Alas, life was cruel: Sadako died on October 25, 1955.
– The terrible and sad story of the girl made her a symbol of rejection of nuclear war. Monuments Sadako
were installed in different cities and countries. Of course, the most famous of them is in Hiroshima – in the
Park of the World. It was installed in 1958, and on its pedestal it says: “This is our cry, this is our prayer,
peace in the whole world.” And on the top of the dome-pedestal is a sculpture of Sadako with a paper
crane in her hands.
– Exactly 20 years after the end of the war, in 1965, the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov visited Japan.
He was shown the monument to Sadako and told her story. This story shook Gamzatov so much that he
never stopped thinking about a little Japanese woman and her cranes. But on that trip of the poet his own
grief overtook: he received a telegram in which his mother’s death was reported … But that Hiroshima girl
with paper cranes did not go away from memory. That was the way this poem was written. ”
– Yes, Gamzatov wrote the poem “Cranes” in his native Avar language, and the birds became a symbol of
all soldiers who died in the war. In 1968, Naum Grebnev translated the poem into Russian, and “Cranes”
were printed in the magazine “New World”.
(Google translation)
On the pictures below: on the left Rasul Gamzatov, on the right Naum Grebnev, and
at the bottom: on the left Mark Bernec, on the right Yan Frenkel
https://audiomania.livejournal.com/69928.html
The story of the song “Cranes”
Composer: Yan Frenkel
Lyrics: Rasul Gamzatov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C_IwECIUU4
You can change the subtitles to English