May, 9 - the great day in World's history.
It's Day of Great Victory over fascism.
Second World War is the most bloody war in the history of humanity. Sovit Union won a victory in this war, vanquished fascist Germany, but price of victory was more than twenty millions of human's lives. Other countries lost many millions people too! Let's remember about it and say together:
Down with all war!
We want no more.
May there always be sunshine!
May there always be blue skies!
May there always be mommy!
May there always be me!
Russian people always remember about this great tragedy. On this day the songs about war are sounded everywhere. I present you one song of this kind. It's a very famous song "Cranes" by Yan Frenkel (music) and Rasul Gamzatov (text).
Cranes
Sometimes I dream that fallen hero soldiers,
Forever lost in brutal old campaigns,
Were never buried under mournful alders,
But turned to mystic snowy crying cranes.
Since then they wing and wing and cry till now.
We recognize the hearty darling voice.
We pray in sorrow, souls don’t allow
To take the look away without choice.
The tired flock soars up toward the clouds.
I see a tiny brake in their line:
Someone should exit noisy human crowds.
I realize: one day lot should be mine.
One day the flock shell raise me to the cloud
And I will fly with others – don’t cry!
I will put on the cloud as a shroud
And I will hail you faintly from the sky.
This poem by a famous Avarian poet of Soviet time Rasul Gamzatov
An English translation by Semion Ventsymerov
Sergey Zykov sing the song "Cranes" by Yan Frenkel and Rasul Gamzatov. Video from Youtube.
Video "Cranes" from Youtube. The song is performed by Dmitriy Hvorostovskiy
Comments
Hello, dear Irina!
Thank you very much for your attention to my blog and comment! Yeas, you are all right!
It's terrible to think how many wars have shaken our earth! But the Second World's War is the most terrible was in the history of humanity!
Hello, dear Irina!
Thank you very much for your comment! I know, your city, St. Petersburg, is one of cities - heros. It endured blockade during Second World War - in this time a lot of thousand people perished from starvation. Can you write blog about it?
Hello, Anele!
Thank you very much for your comment! Yeas, you are right! But you are right partially only! The matter is in that, what is a war - a war of aggression or a war of liberation. Let imagine: somebody attacked you, but you repulsed his aggression. What are you lady: selfish one? No! You will are brave and decided person in that moment! If your enemy took flight - hurrah! - are you winner or not? I think, you will winner in that time! :-)
The Siviet Union repulsed Fascist Germany and won it! I tnink, the Soviet Union is winner!
I post for you a photo of children in war time. Their fathers and mothers fought with fascism. I don't to call those people like selfish persons!
Hello, Skyandhill!
Yeas, you are right - peace is the best gift for human beings! Only not all people understand that! :-( I post here one of photos of Second World War's age. There are prisoners of war. It's horror!
Hi Inga,
Thanks for the reminder of the great holiday! World War II was "a global military conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945. The war is generally accepted to have begun on 1 September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Germany." On 22 June 1941, Germany invaded Russia.
Anele, if the victims had heard your words!