On December 30 we published this video with the deseased member of Alexandrov Ensemle Andrey Bazdyrev singing 'White Cranes'. We added subtitles to the video and some information about the song itself, but it is essentially the same video.
We will not forget you, our white crane...
Song Story
The Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, when visiting Hiroshima, was impressed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and the monument to Sadako Sasaki. The memory of paper cranes made by the girl haunted him for months and inspired him to write a poem starting with the now famous lines: "It seems to me sometimes that our soldiers That were not to return from fields of gore Did not lie down into our land But t...