Yup! Except that the West felt the need to try again and again about once every century or so.
This poem was written in 1831! Yet very little has changed.
Except one thing: this time Russia will finish the job once and for all.
And that is not a “Putin” idea, but the consensus of the people of Russia today.
The western media, of course, hides this.
But that won’t change the outcome.
It’s over for the soy boys and their woke+liberal+imperialist cult.
The writing (by Pushkin) is on the wall.
:) Sergei Bezrukov does a very good job here. And, in line with the modern tolerant-to-everything times, his reciting is even relatively soft. Eg. compare to Valeri Zolotukhin’s (excellent) recitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2fQVikAJE . Where I shall agree with you is in that noone will be pleased to hear the Russian bear growl when it comes to the battle.
It takes a great Poet, which the Straussians just cannot fathom.
Now Kiev wants to rename all Ukrainian streets dedicated to Pushkin over to Steven King Street! Apparently Kiev did not see Vovan and Lexus taking Steven King for a ride (or maybe they did?)
The Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, also known as the Kiev Conservatory, refused to remove Tchaikovsky’s name from their Academy, standing by the decision, and so far have not lost citizenship!.
You begin to feel the soul of Russia with these stirring words.
How heroic are her people, how brave, how resolute. They have demonstrated time and time again with blood and treasure that no country, no ideology and no men from Brussels or Satan’s palace on the Potomac can enslave her with temptations of shiny baubles or regal titles.
Russia is sovereign; she lives on with courage and tenacity in her heart, forged by pain and suffering. How do we not love her? We cannot, not love her for she is the light unto our own darkness. She will prevail for her people are noble and we the common man bound in totalitarian chains, stand with her to the end.
Pushkin in 1831, might not have imagined China’s rise from a British East India Company victim to it’s status today. Russia is now not alone!
As Sergei Glazyev said on Moscow FM radio that the United States, under its current leadership, had committed economic suicide last spring when it decided to seize Russia’s foreign currency reserves abroad.
And the U.S. decline will enable China to reunite peacefully with Taiwan, without a single shot some time over the next 10-15 years. Any U.S. attempt to provoke China into a direct military clash over Taiwan will be doomed to failure. The “Celestial Empire” will quietly wait for America to lose its power—which will happen with the rapid degradation of the entire U.S. financial system—and, consequently, the loss of its current positions and opportunities. Even in the near term, America will be forced to retreat into the background.
The tale of the last 3+ centuries has been the intense opposition of the Russian and the Anglo-Saxon marshal of the combined West.. Indeed, “this time Russia will finish the job once and for all.”
Pushkin’s poem is the grim promise of the resolute Defender.. 3/4 of his short life overlapped with that of William Blake, who provided the opposing gambit: the wistful Aggression of the British Empire:
A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veild the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
So powerful is The Great Western Narrative that a Russian-speaking American friend of mine, who adores Pushkin and even took a semester-long course on his work (and surely encountered this poem) is nevertheless one of the most Putin-hating people I know. She really believes that Putin is attempting to recreate the USSR.
For me, she is Exhibit A for the power of Western media to bewitch even the most intelligent people.
To the first sentence, I agree wholeheartedly. To the second I can’t. They were writing for different audiences, from different backgrounds and appealing to different mindsets. Apples and oranges. I prefer Pushkin though.
I love a great poem that is well read and this one is so well executed. Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.
Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare is also something that I enjoyed during the worst of the lockdown.
Sergei’s endition is fascinating, almost haunting. Akin to the New Zealand Moari Haka. Sergei’s art transfixes you – you leanforwardtohear and Sergei”s on his phone and it’s not polite to listen in on others calls. So I turn my attention away and ask myself. What prompted that? As if somehow as an American I have yet to grasp how much I/We are cautioned to mend our ways or else.
I met A. S Pushkin through Vladimir I Lenin in 1989 – one through the other – as I began to dig into Socialism and the Russian Revolution. I was shocked that there had been Gannibal and what flowed from him. I was shocked that there was/is something like Afro Russian and lists of “Notable Afro-Russians” current and historic including Gannibal’s own son Ivan Gannibal
I was struck immediately by what I saw as Pushkin’s Russian or nationalism, its depth, sincerity, naturalness and lack of pretentiousness. Then Pushkin slipped away from me completely, and now I am shocked that he did, that he could, given the even greater significance I see to him as writer and human being currently
I don’t regard Russia as saintly among nations though not as evil as the West by far. I see good that flows from Russia so much so as a source of light and practical positive movement for humanity currently. But small as it has been I am still impressed by Russian interaction with ‘Black’ in the world especially since Gannibal as marker. I like the post world war 2 migration that included such as Paul Robeson, the significant education of Africans from the same point…
All interesting and positive…and Pushkin! Must find some time to dig into him deeper as it once again becomes important, crucial… to understand Russia in the world
(my computer is telling me that I posted this up twice…which means the original post is unedited and terrible which I hope you wont put up of course. Sorry! [Done-mod])
Sounds like the growls of a bear rudely disturbed from his slumber. If the soy boys had sense they would get away from that cave.
Yup! Except that the West felt the need to try again and again about once every century or so.
This poem was written in 1831! Yet very little has changed.
Except one thing: this time Russia will finish the job once and for all.
And that is not a “Putin” idea, but the consensus of the people of Russia today.
The western media, of course, hides this.
But that won’t change the outcome.
It’s over for the soy boys and their woke+liberal+imperialist cult.
The writing (by Pushkin) is on the wall.
:) Sergei Bezrukov does a very good job here. And, in line with the modern tolerant-to-everything times, his reciting is even relatively soft. Eg. compare to Valeri Zolotukhin’s (excellent) recitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K2fQVikAJE . Where I shall agree with you is in that noone will be pleased to hear the Russian bear growl when it comes to the battle.
For English readers :
https://russianuniverse.org/2014/09/24/slanderers-of-russia/
https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BC_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8_%28%D0%9F%D1%83%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%29
“So send your embittered sons to us,
Vitia:
There is a place for them in the fields of Russia,
Among the coffins” …
It takes a great Poet, which the Straussians just cannot fathom.
Now Kiev wants to rename all Ukrainian streets dedicated to Pushkin over to Steven King Street! Apparently Kiev did not see Vovan and Lexus taking Steven King for a ride (or maybe they did?)
The Pyotr Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, also known as the Kiev Conservatory, refused to remove Tchaikovsky’s name from their Academy, standing by the decision, and so far have not lost citizenship!.
It gets even crazier :
https://topcor.ru/27412-za-borodino-i-za-poltavu-arestovich-zajavil-chto-strany-nato-prosjat-ukrainu-dobit-russkih.html
Gordon interviews Arestovich who said about the NATO meeting :
“They all shook hands at Ramstein, everything. And they said, please finish off the bastard. The Swedes added – “for Poltava”, the French added – “for Borodino”. They’re just saying, finally, you’re going to be done with them. Make! Let’s do it all together!”
Arestovich said.
At the same time, according to the adviser, representatives of Germany “were silent, but winked.”
If that is true, knowing Arestovich, Germany has some explaining to do – no one wanted to say Stalingrad!
“Rise Russia’s Warriors, one and all?
Then send your numbers without numbers,
Your madden’d sons, your goaded slaves,
In Russia’s plains there’s room to slumber,
And well they’ll know their brethren’s graves!
You begin to feel the soul of Russia with these stirring words.
How heroic are her people, how brave, how resolute. They have demonstrated time and time again with blood and treasure that no country, no ideology and no men from Brussels or Satan’s palace on the Potomac can enslave her with temptations of shiny baubles or regal titles.
Russia is sovereign; she lives on with courage and tenacity in her heart, forged by pain and suffering. How do we not love her? We cannot, not love her for she is the light unto our own darkness. She will prevail for her people are noble and we the common man bound in totalitarian chains, stand with her to the end.
Pushkin in 1831, might not have imagined China’s rise from a British East India Company victim to it’s status today. Russia is now not alone!
As Sergei Glazyev said on Moscow FM radio that the United States, under its current leadership, had committed economic suicide last spring when it decided to seize Russia’s foreign currency reserves abroad.
And the U.S. decline will enable China to reunite peacefully with Taiwan, without a single shot some time over the next 10-15 years. Any U.S. attempt to provoke China into a direct military clash over Taiwan will be doomed to failure. The “Celestial Empire” will quietly wait for America to lose its power—which will happen with the rapid degradation of the entire U.S. financial system—and, consequently, the loss of its current positions and opportunities. Even in the near term, America will be forced to retreat into the background.
Chinese ship-scrapping yards will be pleased to dismantle, or repurpose, the american aircraft-carriers.
Hard to grasp it all, but… WOW!
Fish in the sea
You know how I feel . . .
It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life (for us)
And I’m feeling good.
Nina
I hate the Anti-Christ, the Destroyer of Hope and defiler of everything true…
Russia´s cause is ours, for decency if nothing else.
The tale of the last 3+ centuries has been the intense opposition of the Russian and the Anglo-Saxon marshal of the combined West.. Indeed, “this time Russia will finish the job once and for all.”
Pushkin’s poem is the grim promise of the resolute Defender.. 3/4 of his short life overlapped with that of William Blake, who provided the opposing gambit: the wistful Aggression of the British Empire:
A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
And I waterd it in fears,
Night & morning with my tears:
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
And it grew both day and night.
Till it bore an apple bright.
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine.
And into my garden stole,
When the night had veild the pole;
In the morning glad I see;
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Haven’t read Pushkin in 70+ years. Now I cannot wait to find my old boxes of books.
Thank you,
Kurt
So powerful is The Great Western Narrative that a Russian-speaking American friend of mine, who adores Pushkin and even took a semester-long course on his work (and surely encountered this poem) is nevertheless one of the most Putin-hating people I know. She really believes that Putin is attempting to recreate the USSR.
For me, she is Exhibit A for the power of Western media to bewitch even the most intelligent people.
wow.ty.
To understand Russia one has to understand Pushkin, not Solzhenitsyn
He was better than Shakespeare and I still cannot untangle Onegin
Sad he died so young
To the first sentence, I agree wholeheartedly. To the second I can’t. They were writing for different audiences, from different backgrounds and appealing to different mindsets. Apples and oranges. I prefer Pushkin though.
I love a great poem that is well read and this one is so well executed. Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention.
Patrick Stewart reading Shakespeare is also something that I enjoyed during the worst of the lockdown.
Sergei’s endition is fascinating, almost haunting. Akin to the New Zealand Moari Haka. Sergei’s art transfixes you – you leanforwardtohear and Sergei”s on his phone and it’s not polite to listen in on others calls. So I turn my attention away and ask myself. What prompted that? As if somehow as an American I have yet to grasp how much I/We are cautioned to mend our ways or else.
I met A. S Pushkin through Vladimir I Lenin in 1989 – one through the other – as I began to dig into Socialism and the Russian Revolution. I was shocked that there had been Gannibal and what flowed from him. I was shocked that there was/is something like Afro Russian and lists of “Notable Afro-Russians” current and historic including Gannibal’s own son Ivan Gannibal
I was struck immediately by what I saw as Pushkin’s Russian or nationalism, its depth, sincerity, naturalness and lack of pretentiousness. Then Pushkin slipped away from me completely, and now I am shocked that he did, that he could, given the even greater significance I see to him as writer and human being currently
I don’t regard Russia as saintly among nations though not as evil as the West by far. I see good that flows from Russia so much so as a source of light and practical positive movement for humanity currently. But small as it has been I am still impressed by Russian interaction with ‘Black’ in the world especially since Gannibal as marker. I like the post world war 2 migration that included such as Paul Robeson, the significant education of Africans from the same point…
All interesting and positive…and Pushkin! Must find some time to dig into him deeper as it once again becomes important, crucial… to understand Russia in the world
(my computer is telling me that I posted this up twice…which means the original post is unedited and terrible which I hope you wont put up of course. Sorry! [Done-mod])