Patriotic music -- Russia
Patriotic rocker Oleg Gazmanov, the singer in this video to which I linked earlier, is even more exuberant in this song celebrating Russia. You won't need to know much Russian to recognize names of places and of heroic figures from Russian history, ranging from Pushkin to Zhukov to Gagarin, as he sings them; the chant eto moya strana! means "that's my country!"
The song title "Sdelan Ya v SSSR" ("I Was Made in the USSR") requires a word of explanation. A kind of nostalgia for the Soviet era is fairly common in Russia, not because of Communist sympathies, but because it was the height of Russia's power. Those are Russian, not Soviet, flags being waved by the audience.
Gazmanov's bio here.
The song title "Sdelan Ya v SSSR" ("I Was Made in the USSR") requires a word of explanation. A kind of nostalgia for the Soviet era is fairly common in Russia, not because of Communist sympathies, but because it was the height of Russia's power. Those are Russian, not Soviet, flags being waved by the audience.
Gazmanov's bio here.
Labels: Eastern Europe, Music and video
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