I try to understand the truth about what happens in Russia by listening to dissenting voices rather than official information. IC3PEAK are fantastic and so is the idea of learning Russian through your interpretation of their music. Thank you and looking forward to more.
You reminded me of a popular song from when I was your age:the Universal Soldier by Donovan. www.google.com/search?q=universal+soldier+donovan+lyrics&client=safari&channel=iphone_bm&sxsrf=ALeKk03asyUBCUMy4GWjpOGZlvMoRyQILg%3A1625096646046&source=hp&ei=xQHdYPOoPMi3tQb3-IWoBw&oq=universal+soldier+don&gs_lcp=ChFtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1ocBABGAEyBQguEJMCMgIIADICCAAyAgguMgIIADIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjoHCCMQ6gIQJzoECCMQJzoFCAAQsQM6CwguELEDEMcBEKMCOgsILhCxAxDHARCvAToICC4QxwEQrwE6DgguELEDEMcBEK8BEJMCOgUILhCxAzoICC4QsQMQkwI6CAgAELEDEIMBUIYeWJbHAmCxnQNoAnAAeACAAaYBiAGkFZIBBDAuMjGYAQCgAQGwAQ8&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-hp
How bizarre. I don't see how you could connect Universal Soldier with my comment and finding out my age is also a really weird thing to do. Being my age when the song was popular makes you about 110. I think perhaps, you are a little confused. @@mathedguy
Lester Standen sorry, I’m still figuring this stuff out. I didn’t mean the universal soldier to respond to your comment. I meant it as related to Natasha’s post.
@@mathedguy That's okay Jeffrey. In that context your reply makes a lot of sense and I'm sorry if you thought my reply was in any way rude. You could delete your comment and make it a direct reply to Natasha's post, then it will be more likely to be read by others.
@@nikitaberejnoy4359 Might be reaching a bit, but communism is the idea that people should all get the exact same output regardless of input or that everything should be shared equally.
I love these translation videos! I am learning Russian and also a fan of IC3PEAK, so not only do I improve my vocabulary by watching, but I also learn more about my favorite songs.
I don't think accents actually help learning the language. I may be in the minority but the accent symbols only happen in foreign language books. When you read a real book in Russian no single word has accents. I prefer it that way. Just learn the pronunciation of each word.
This video is absolutely splendid!✨For some reason, this makes me want to learn how to be fluent in Russian. I’m definitely gonna start binge watching. Keep up the great work darling!💜
отличная структура видео, отличные примеры, очень понравилось то, что прилагается культурный контекст. я надеюсь, эти видео будут более популярные (возможно, теги в видео или английское название помогут), но в любом случае, я рада видеть такой контент и желаю только успехов!
In Western Europe there is a good knowledge (on the average) of WW2, except for the Pacific side of the war (we don't study much far Eastern Culture at school, which is bad o.c.) and we well know that "The Red Army" defeated Nazis from the East side. I'm bit worried about revisionism and I'm not sure that most of countries worked out and faced their own crimes (excluding Germany). Very few had "clean hands" in the scenario.
In Canada we took no prisoners we Slaughtered our enemies even as they surrendered & ran... also Slaughtered a civilian city kuz a German sniper killed a commander while hidden in the civilian populated city.
All we learned about was the Space Race and general info about Stalin and Lenin lol I didn’t start looking into learning more on my own until I got out of school
Very well done! I don't know anything about Russian, but I learned a lot. And you presented it all very well. You can really tell that you are studying linguistics.
8:08 - I found this interesting, жрать translates "to eat" when I type it. "To fress" is bit more obscure English meaning to ravenously devour. So, funnily enough, I learned English (my native tongue!) from you while learning Russian. Thank you, Спасибо!
I was able to infer a lot of what was shared in this video just by watching the music video which I think speaks volumes about how good of a political statement it is. Your video really helped contextualize some concepts that as an American I just didn’t understand or missed. I will definitely have to share this video with some friends who are fellow ic3peak lovers.
The translation and most of all explaning the metaphor was awesome.This is another side of your channel which I think is making it's success.You are always bringing different content.Much appeciated and keep up the good work.
This video was actually very helpful. I just started learning Russian, and as usual, i first looked for music on Russian and IC3peak was one of the first artist i liked, but when i came across mapш i didn't quite understand the references of the video, so hear I got a good translation breakdown, and understanding of the video
I really hope she makes more videos like this, I've been rewatching this and boo-hoo and it's helped me so much. I can't find any other videos that teach people Russian through IC3PEAK
You do a really great job with these translation videos. It's very informative to see the details of the words beyond just the translation. I'm afraid Americans have a very strange view of WWII. We are taught that we were the critical contributor to the war. That's very accurate for the war in the Pacific, but a shame that we ignore the far greater contribution Russia had in Europe. I'm sure it has to do with the Cold War and our government needing propaganda, but really Hollywood is the worst about getting the story right. Our films never deviate from that viewpoint, even today, so eventually people have come to accept it. I've read up on both the European and Pacific theaters of the war and it's a great shame that 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union we have yet to learn about what Russia and the former soviet countries had to go through and how hard you had to fight to claim victory.
I leaned about the Great Patriotic War/Eastern Front this year in my world history class. My history teacher (who lived in Russia and both studied the history of Russia and the Russian language there) did mention that Russia is largely responsible for defeating the Nazis. However, I feel our class only learned this because he was educated on other perspectives of history, not just the America perspective on history. If I had been in another class with a teacher that did not have as broad of a perspective on world history, I would not have been aware of this. This is my opinion, and I am not sure how accurate it is, but I feel that in many American classes (mainly history), patriotism is made into propaganda. The textbooks in many schools are outdated and many teachers spend more time teaching about the “good and shiny” parts of American history and the victories of Americans in war rather than the bad sides of American history and even the histories of other countries. This is what gives many Americans the impression that the world revolves around America and that America is naturally superior to other countries. While I have no problem with patriotism and think that one should always be proud of the country that they came from. I strongly dislike when patriotism is used as a form of propaganda to in a way “brainwash” people into believing their country is better just because it had the most war victories in history or had a very strong military.
I do also want to say though, that I took a course on American history and how it was depicted in literature a few years ago. Because we read many books written by different people, at different points in history, with different experiences, and from different countries, I do feel that I wasn’t taught any propaganda and that I gained a more accurate perspective of American history since I learned about it from the viewpoints of multiple people. The teachers of that course also emphasized it was important we don’t just learn American history from the American perspective, but that we learn the history of all countries from multiple different perspectives. This is all just my experience though, what you learn in history depends on where you live in the country and what school you go to and how wealthy the area you live in is. I’m from Minnesota (which is consider to be a more open/liberal state than others), but I still experienced some classes where we were not taught history from multiple perspectives and instead were just taught history from the viewpoint of an American fighting in the military.
@@aynrandspetcat Thank you! I completely agree with you about the patriotism. I love Russia but don't associate myself with those who use it for brainwashing. I wish I could be proud of Russia for having the good medicine and science, not just for one event that happened in the last century. And it's cool that you have experiencing "different sides" of history teaching. I think it depends from state to state, from school to school. Greetings to Minnesota! Went I ewnt there due to my exchange program, I saw some actions that show that people are truly starting to rethink the American history, like when they renamed the Lake Calhoun as the Dakota word Bde Maka Ska, or like the way how the Father Hennepin Bluff Park in Minneapolis is equipped with the information about the heritage of the Native people. And definitely the recent protests against racism, that started in Minnesota and spread all over the country are going to bring some change.
In Europe, almost everyone considers the usa as the saviors for WWII, but we forget that nothing indicates an american intervention in Europe if Japan had not attacked the USA (forcing the USA to take sides against the AXIS). We have been rocked by american patriotism through cinema, which has obscured certain questions that deserve to be deepened. (and which puts into perspective some current isolationist discourse in the USA)
@@mereckbxl111 Germany vs. Russia was much longer and more brutal in a way. More personal, because Germans invaded Russia, while US families were safe. More reason for russian soldiers for revenge. Lots of my grandparents generation passionately hated the russian soldiers. Because there were many rapes and murders. Even my relatives in eastern Germany, despite their pro Russian propaganda. So, especially in western Germany, bad experience of the ww2 generation plus US centric point of view, those may be reasons why people learnt to see the US as the destroyer of 3rd Reich, but they forget Russia. Also US movies supported the bad feelings. Russians are still depicted as evil. If there's an evil guy, it's very likely they give him a russian accented german synchronisation.
@@mereckbxl111 and You all forget that Canadian troops in both world wars had a reputation of "take no prisoners & get shit done" they gained the most ground & kills per soldier on the allied side... & if it weren't for Hitlers early attack on Russia the Nazis would have taken over Europe then invaded both the Americas & Russia.
We learn more from your videos about your country than from any official news outlet. Be safe and keep it up, girl. Been to Minsk and visited the Museum of the Great Patriotic War there. Very impressive to learn about this side of the war. The Soviets we are against the Nazis too. (Of course I knew that, but it's different when standing there in side a former Soviet city).
Thank you for the re-upload. I waited for it while 5 months. This IC3PEAK video is sadly more actual than ever. According to CIA 12.000, according to Ukrainian Government 47.550 Russian soldiers served as cannon fodder and already died for Russian Government for fighting against Ukraine and their civilians, where nobody knows, how many people already died. The history in this video will repeat now for generations in tenth of thousands of families. So, if there is no revolution in Russia (and it don't seems to be the case in the next years) the next generation(s) risk to be the same as now. And to cite IC3PEAKs projections on the wall on stage: Stop The War - Stand With Ukraine
Great video again! I loved it :) It´s nice to hear your opinions about your country and the information you bring for us, I totally agree with you on the fact that those parades and so on shouldnt be the focus of the government. I really relate to your report cuz here im Brazil we have a shitty "president" , horrendous human being, if we can call him one. Recently he decided he would stop helping people in need while the pandemic, saying that there wasnt enough money, but then, he increased the militars´s salary! Our ministers fake their degrees, we simply DONT have a health minister during the pandemic, the education minister was fired, then the next one couldnt even start his job because it was discouvered that his degree was ALL false. And here, so as in Russia, the nacionalism is very used by the government to convince people everything is okay. Anyways, thank you for this awesome video!
Thank you for such a mindful comment! So sorry to hear about these problems that you have in Brazil. I didn't know about this country much, but I kind of can imagine everything you described. By the way, just a couple of days ago a video was released where Ic3peak are interviewed by apopular journalist Yuri Dud. (Eng subtitles should be added soon: ruclips.net/video/95ReakCrKX0/видео.html) and in the interview they were telling about their concert in Brazil. They said they during their time there they felt like Brazil were in some way similar to Russia, it was just warmer there.
@@NatashasAdventures thats ok hahaha aaaa Thanks for the recommendation! I'll watch this video! Yes, i think that brazil does have some similarities with russia hahaha but it is waaaaay hotter
In many countries it seems that a new kind of Autoritharism has rised: Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Slovenia) and somewhat USA and Wester Europe too: many liberal-democracy seems weak against the economic crises, and they are turning into centralization of power, some of them openly inspired by far-right movements, some other maintaining a "traditional" dress. I'm very worried about Brazil, because playing with the Army is not a joke and can turn into tragedy. But I can see also that there is a good power balancing and large parts of society that can prevent the worst. Be strong, friends! Military Parades are everywhere in the world, ok not in Panama or Costa Rica..., and military propaganda is massive in Italy too. We have the higher percentage of policemen per people and the Army is the way many young unemployed guys and girls start to get a "job". Every State need his Ceremony to show itself and people that exists, it's a way for staying in power. But I prefer to think to people coming from Lands then States...
@@nikitaberejnoy4359 News from 16/02/2021 (automatic translation by google): LUBIANA, 16 FEB - The Slovenian parliament did not pass a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa presented by the opposition. The votes in favor of the motion - at the end of a long debate in the classroom - were in fact 40, six less than the quorum required compared to the 90 total seats of the Assembly. The opposition accuses the government of *poor democracy, failure to respect the constitution, violation of human rights and freedom of the media.* In bold what I mean. I know it's a modern country, I was arguing about how they are going to authritarism
Hello Natasha. I am very much enjoying your video series. I think you are helping many people gain insight into the people and culture of Russia. Well done. I live in Canada which, being so close to the United States, has been forever bombarded by US ideas and propaganda. My whole life I have been watching their movies and news channels. Usually they don't even include Britain as victors in WWII; to hear them you would think that they won the war single-handedly. I don't want to take away from the huge contribution they did make. Their losses were about 400, 000 for the entire war, including in the pacific. This pales beside those of Russia's. Anyone who has read a few history books and especially books concerning the eastern front would know that your country paid the highest price and (after Stalingrad) had the invading German Army in full retreat. That made the job on the western front much easier. I am surprised to hear you criticizing the politics in your country--I had thought that freedom of speech was more restricted in Russia. I'm learning a lot. Your command of my language is very good. I never have any difficulty following you. When you do make a mistake, it is usually a preposition, the use of which is largely by convention and must simply be memorized. Anyway... a pleasure to listen to you. Be well.
about freedom of speech. In most parts of russia(except caucasus where it's extrimly bad) it's complicated question. Sometimes i think that opposition just overthing, but suddenly government making some shit related to it(trying to ban telegram or jailing guy because of twitter). So in general mostly government doing the same censorship as in other countrys(including US and europe) but sometimes they goo to far. So in Russia you could openly criticize about both left and right, lgbt and homophobes and in most cases it would be okay and noone will cancel you(yes it's a reference to cancel coulture which i can't understand)
Your channel is taking off! I’ve been watching one video after another, and with every new video of yours that I watch, you have another 10,000 subscribers! 🤘 Keep up the great work!
I always feel like military parades are really about intimidation. The reason the USSR broadcast the May Day parades around the world was to remind everyone who had the biggest hockey stick, especially the people in Warsaw Pact countries.
Thank you so much for this great video. With recent events it seems particularly poignant. But on a lighter note I am reminded of a programme that used to be broadcast on the BBC World Service called "Pedagogical Pop" which deconstructed the lyrics of pop songs in a lighthearted way to help listeners learn English. I especially remember an episode based on "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits, which dates both me and the programme. All the best.
Потрясающая работа! Браво! И я согласна с трактовкой + очень круто, что вы рассказываете, как у нас обстоят дела с так называемым «победобесием». Смотрела реакции иностранцев, многие действительно не понимали смысл клипа. Когда я его смотрю, у меня перед глазами стоят все эти маленькие девочки и мальчики, наряженные в военную форму для парада, и их мамы в пилотках. Это грустно. А ещё всё вот это «можем повторить» и так далее. IC3PEAK молодцы, что поднимают такие темы. А вы помогаете иностранцам понять + учить язык через песни - очень хороший способ, сама так учила английский и немецкий)
In Poland we do learn about the "victors" of the WW2, including Russia, but no country is ever explicitly depicted as a liberator of Poland, especially Russia (due to the 'why' and the 'how' Russia decided to "liberate" us). Great video!
Thank you for explaining I saw one of her songs and was very confused because I don’t know Russian and I’m not Russian so thanks! I know her songs explain Russia but didn’t know what she meant by these lines!
I love these videos! Thank you! My theory on why we, usa, don't acknowledge is due to complicated relations after ww2. The cold War made things a little tense. I agree though. I learned about European countries in school but, how Russia specifically fared in ww2 was not mentioned.
For Капюшон, the Word in french that ressembles the most is "capuchon" and it means "bottle cap" Though I think it comes from "capuche" (the thing on your hoodies for example that goes onto your head)
I abhor those trying to control and oppress people.Bless you for explaining the video You are not alone feeling angry, depressed, or feeling helpless about those things.I don't know what is the most effective solution or the easiest.We need to be passionate about each other and willing to help each other.There is something everyone can do.
This really disturbs me how they can use this for nationalistic politics. I knew of the enormous losses that Russia had in that war which is dreadful. Very insightfu & intelligent analysisl from you Natasha.
After watching those IC3PEAK videos, I can see why nobody is smiling in Russia, as you said in another one of your videos. I am getting from the IC3PEAK video that there are unspeakable oppression and suppression of Russia's masses. Vladimir Putin needs to leave the government and be replaced with someone who advocates democracy and not autocracy. Thanks for this in-depth explanation. Keep up the good work. Natasha, you rock.
Democracy is run by globalists. Western europeans and white americans are being ethnically wiped out by "democracy". At least putin isn't ethnically replacing his own people.
Great Vids as always and your English is superb I'm native English speaker (UK) and never heard the word "Fress" in my life. Where did you read/hear it? Is this new American slang?
Ow yeah and as a finnish person who's great grandparents were fighting the Soviets who attacked our country in '39 I've noticed that russians like to leave out of the "great patriotic war"-concept the war with Finland, cuz it was a total mess from their side... Also since we've lived nextdoor to our giant neighbor Russia, while we belong to the "western world" we still know that the SSSR fought WITH the brits and US and french, all AGAINST the Nazis. Why do both sides try to forget that they COOPERATED and neither would've won the Nazis alone, is what I think, but they both (US and russians) like to frame it to their own people so that they single-handedly fought off the whole Nazi invasion of Europe. Also, estonians and poles and many more countries had great resistance fighters who fought against the nazi-occupation in their respected countries. Bottomline, defeating the Nazis needed the cooperation of all the big military powers at the time, but I guess it doesnt fit their narrative today of what went on then and how it went. Also, both US and Russia are trying to rewrite history to make themselves look better in the eyes of their respective peoples... Damn politics :D
Dom is one of the few works I remember from my childhood when my mother tried to teach me some Russian - and I think of it as cognate with the English 'domicile' (deriving from Greek).
I live in America, and when WWII is taught here, they downplay Russia's role in it A LOT. The curriculum by itself barely mentions how many Russians died during the war, or the Eastern front. I didn't know the number was so high until I took a more in depth history class in college. America's role is emphasized a lot though to make it seem more important. Excellent videos!
This is the first time I heard the word "fress" even. When anyone in our government, or pulic even, tries to spread revisionism, we rely on our media and "watchdogs", as well as vigilant citizens to keep freedom alive. Thank you, great video.
Great comments and analysis in this video. We all love and respect the great contribution of the Soviet Union. My father was a communist in Central America and that is how I was introduced to 'chto eto takoe" and my first attempts to learn Russian (Radio Moscow used to send training manuals). But young or nowadays Russians need not live in the past and have to build a new society with values of respect to all. The government has to respond to the people and promote better standards of living socially, financially, economically, and politically. You are working and promoting that. You are an inspiration.
Just wanted to say something seemingly trivial but quite important for learning a language: When you say 'for some reason Russian people omit the O when they speak this word' what you really mean is the word has no O sound but was *written* with an O sound. It's the writing that doesn't reflect the pronunciation not the other way round as writing is supposed to just be a representation of spoken language.
Thank you for the explanation! I was a big fan of the band and song already, but I knew that as a foreigner I would not understand some of the subtleties of the message, and this has explained a lot. I am still curious though, is there particular significance to the symbols being shot/destroyed (Sun, rainbow, rabbit, swan, heart etc)? Eg. are they recognizable icons from Soviet/Russian children's cartoons, or overall just symbols of childhood and innocence?
I admire your courage in speaking your mind and posting your views on this platform. Without the then USSR effort in the East, I am not sure the Nazis would not have won. At no time did the allies in the West face more than 25% of all German military forces available. For every allied death in the West, the Germans lost 31 and the USSR 81, figures that speak for themselves. You have every reason for being proud of their heroic efforts as we do on Remembrance Day, but it should never be hijacked to promote or support a particular regime.
As Finnish, its interesting to think that im closer your capital than you are. And yes, we get both names great patriotic war and ww2 in our books. But i doubt if there is anything about red partizans in finnish front or even mensioned talvisota(winter war) before you get attacked by germans and to attacked finland. I have also school knowledge about pre-soviet era tsars, and times when saint peterburg wasn stalingrad or even novgorod(novaja gorod=new castle). Did you know that most of lingual groups from west to river volga, were finno-ugric family before slavs came some little less than thousand years ago?
Привет из Америки 👋🏻 я учу русский и ich lehre deutsch and I‘m a native English speaker. Мне нравится что you format these, but it looks like you spend a lot of time on editing? These songs are fairly complex, я хочу знать если мы может быть поговорим о ... a sillier and easier song?
Привет! Ich lerne auch deutsch! Вы правы, editing of this took a lot of time and I actually was going to review some easier song the next time. Спасибо за ваш комментарий и желаю удачи!
I read that this song was also about new laws to open up military propaganda to children, which was seen with parades and costumes of children (not just scouts) in military uniforms. Can you confirm ? One "detail" I noticed in the clip is the Orthodox priest returning the salute to the military authorities. I don't know if this is the case (I'm not Russian), but this "detail" seems to me to have significant societal meaning and would show a serious change in the relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church (the latter now being in orders of the army). Note that seeing this attack on childish drawings and symbols also reminded me of Beslan school siege
1) I'm not sure about the laws that open military propaganda to children, but there are some organizations that are promoting it to children on different levels. 2) Indeed, military and chuch is a weird collaboration haha, building of Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces is a good example of it.
Natalia, what do u think about group Shortparis? I would like to see you commenting about their song Так закалялась сталь! thank u for the content :)))
I'm from Germany and of course know a lot about the WW2. My grandparents generation participated. Every part of my family had losses. My grandma's "little" brother never returned from Stalingrad, it was a big tragedy for her, because she was kind of his mother and took care of him, she was 17 years older. Well, many german families, many russian families have their fates... but it fades away. IMO the german government is emberassing and disrespectful towards Russia.
I watched your other Video about the broken marriage. The bands lyrics are unarguably well executed in both videos. That being said, why do you put yourself through this? There are 2 powerful variables here that cannot be ignored. Sound in music and Lyric. Both which affect our subconscious. So if you want to be unhappy and live that way, you give power to bands or music like this. Weather you see music as something passive or by root; way of prayer, music is a powerful influence. People use music to describe their feelings. BUT music has a direct influence on how we feel. Like the wise words of Brandon Boyd, "Make Yourself"
This also seems to be the last thing everyone that in the UK can agree was probably "a good thing that we did", as well. So WWII is also brought up in all kinds of incongruous places here as well, when a bit of patriotism is seen to be in order. I visited Belarus in the eighties and was struck by the similarity. It was horrifying to learn about all the villages that were basically wiped out.
From Australia, during World War II our men fought in Europe and Asia. In every suburb and village we have honour rolls. A large percentage of our men served. So it was huge in the fifties. In my secondary school we had marches at assemblies. But I'm 68 now and that influence has died with the veterans.
Thank you for the insightful video. In my view, countries are always self-interested first (as illustrated in the russian name for the war - not world freedom, but patriotism to mother Russia). The same applies to USA, UK etc. Defeating Hitler was in everyone's interest. I have deep respect and appreciation for all the Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian etc. solders that lost their lives (or worst survived the horrors). I am less convinced that any of the political powers did much altruism, but all of them use the war for their own propaganda. Worst yet, people in central and eastern european countries may be hard pressed to make the distinction between being freed and invaded - the German solders with machine guns were replaced with Russian ones - people died. The invasion laster 40 years. So, this is indeed a tough one. Hopefully time will heal ... One thing is for sure, ww II is a good propaganda tool for anyone who want to use it and has nothing to do with today's politicians.
I love your videos also, for my school at least they don’t leave out the Soviet when taking about the allied forces in ww2 because the soviets were the ones who liberated many Jews and ended the war
It's funny... in Spanish, we use the word "guirnalda" for Christmas lights, and this word sounds pretty much quite like the Russian word you used. Also, I find it very interesting how so many languages have their own unique words that are so difficult to translate - it's almost you need to explain them, rather that simply translate them - and how this unique words are, in my opinion, so related to emotions that are deeply intrinsic, so to speak, to the culture of the native speakers. And yes, here in Spain, at least when I was a student and was taught about WWII, the decisive Russian contribution to the Allied victory was well acknowledged, but it was pointed out that many Russian casualties happened because many, many soldiers were ill-equiped for battle, and often had to rely on fallen comrades (or enemies) equipment in order to fight effectively - giving us the impression that the Russian Government didn't care so much about their own casualties, since their army vastly outnumbered the Nazis. I wonder what's your opinion about this, since I never had the chance to discuss it with a native Russian.
Speaking of Russian consonant combinations that are hard to pronounce, my worst one is «нр» as in «нравится». I feel like I always have to make a little stop after н and then proceed
Thank you for this video. I just found IC3PEAK and I'm in love with their music. As an American I know well of the Soviet People's contribution to the war. The scale the eastern front is enormous compared to the west. I also know that because of very poor leadership(also part of why Russian full scaled invasion into Ukraine went so poorly) more Soviets died than was necessary. I also know that the US gave $108 billion dollars worth of assistance to the USSR during WW2. This included planes, trains, other war material, and food. USA also gave a lot of aid to Russia since the USSA collapsed, financial and technical.
Thank you so much for this, and for speaking up against discrimination of gay people, and for political situation in Russian Federation. And as someone who has grandmother from Germany, thank you for speaking up against white house totally disregarding Russian intervention in Berlin during WW2. Love you from California, USA
I'm an American. The history I learned in school about WW2 focused on the Holocaust and the US Army's role in winning the war, basically D-Day. Since my school days are long past, I've read much about the war and have come to realize that the Soviet Union did the bulk of the fighting that defeated Nazi Germany. Learning the Soviet perspective about the Great Patriotic War was very humbling. The Soviet Union absorbed the greatest invasion in human history, suffered more deaths than any other nation in any other single war, did not collapse, and eventually pushed back into Germany to capture Berlin. Considering that the Nazi war goal was monstrous, to wipe out everyone living in the European portion of the Soviet Union, the stakes could not have been greater, and you won. Given those facts, Russians, Ukrainians, White Russians, etc. have every right to be proud. Trump wanted to be like Putin and rule forever. I hate Trump. I am very happy that he lost a free and fair election and is no longer in office. It is not surprising that Trump said what he said about WW2. He probably doesn't know, and surely wouldn't care, that the USSR did more to win the war than the USA and GB.
@@ka-bq6dl Hi, no, Belarus and their suffering during the war are not a joke to me. I meant to include them by saying White Russians, which I believe in the west was an old way to refer to Belarus. Rather than white Russian, I should have said, Belarusians. Is that correct?
I was raised in America also, a baby boomer. I think I was taught that the Soviets defeated the Nazis in the same way that they had defeated the formidable army under Napoleon. By withdrawing and ceding territory, and especially burning all of the crops. With winter setting in they were found, the Germans as had the French, to be overextended and under supported. I have never studied the particulars, and would not mind being corrected. I hope there will never again be such a war.
Thats an ingenious way to learn Russia. My father's mind was shattered by German shelling in WWII. He never really survived the war. And he died at 53 from a series of heart attacks and alcoholism. He was looked upon as a war hero from his friends. Yet He never celebrated war and was indifferent to being any type of hero. . Not a damn thing in war, his attitude was.. Needless to say preventing war is the only policy worthwhile.
The ability of the Soviet Union to stay confident after initial heavy losses in the war is legendary. A major dimension of the war can be found at the following web site: "Lend Lease Act" - wikipedia. This highly important piece of US legislation played a significant role in allowing Russia to defeat the Germans.This article gives a summary of the armament aid the US supplied to the Soviet Union in order for their defeating the Nazis on the eastern front. American presence within the Red Army and the Russian cause was a fact of reality in WWII. There were no American soldiers though on the eastern front but American military equipment. Stalin, on several occasions stated that US aid was the primary reason the Soviet Union was able to defeat the Nazis. Without US armament aid, Germany could have well ended the Soviet Union's existence. Not to speak of a possible insane extermination policy carried out by Hitler on the Russians similar to the final solution. That is making way for blond blue eyed Aryan superiority throughout the world by Hitler as he attempted to achieve lebensraum by incorporating Soviet territory into his Aryan empire. Whats fascinating, the Russian fleets involvement in the US Civil War greatly allowed the democracy of the US to survive the Civil War and keep the US in its total composition intact. By doing so the war drew to a rapid conclusion. But with Russia's participation in extinguishing the US Civil War they also protected their armament manufacturing base and territory in part, that is the US,, being such armament base, that supplied the military equipment in WWII that allowed the Russians to send the Germans into defeat. And US armament supplies were badly needed by the Red Army. Without it the Soviet Union would have collapsed.This connection to the US by Russia in the American Civil War is a fun fact that historians have not investigated. Because such participation by the Russian fleet in the US Civil War stabilized the situation of the Civil War and allowed the future potential Soviet armament base to exist intact. That is the US. You can imagine the eastern Russian fleet departing Vladivostok in 1863, and little did their sailors know that their expedition to San Francisco was a life saver for Russia's future in the middle part of the 20th century. The eastern Russian fleet back in those days of 1863 would successfully keep the Soviet Union from being extinguished by Hitler in World War II Because they secured a future armament base for the Soviet Union in the years ahead with their significant success in helping draw the US Civil War to its rapid conclusion. And thus preventing the dissolving of the US Union. And insuring the existence of a integral armament base for the Soviet Union during WWII.
I try to understand the truth about what happens in Russia by listening to dissenting voices rather than official information. IC3PEAK are fantastic and so is the idea of learning Russian through your interpretation of their music. Thank you and looking forward to more.
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You reminded me of a popular song from when I was your age:the Universal Soldier by Donovan.
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How bizarre. I don't see how you could connect Universal Soldier with my comment and finding out my age is also a really weird thing to do. Being my age when the song was popular makes you about 110. I think perhaps, you are a little confused. @@mathedguy
Lester Standen sorry, I’m still figuring this stuff out. I didn’t mean the universal soldier to respond to your comment. I meant it as related to Natasha’s post.
@@mathedguy That's okay Jeffrey. In that context your reply makes a lot of sense and I'm sorry if you thought my reply was in any way rude. You could delete your comment and make it a direct reply to Natasha's post, then it will be more likely to be read by others.
the line "same building in every city" also refers to the soviets mass production of buildings
Communism
@@janetdiaz5441 ?
@@nikitaberejnoy4359 Might be reaching a bit, but communism is the idea that people should all get the exact same output regardless of input or that everything should be shared equally.
@@OramiIT Communism is a moneyless, classless, stateless society, in which the means of production are owned publicly i.e. NOT USSR
@@OramiIT Plus, never people have been sad or traumatized for having a house
I absolutely love your teaching style please don't stop making videos ever!! :D
I love these translation videos! I am learning Russian and also a fan of IC3PEAK, so not only do I improve my vocabulary by watching, but I also learn more about my favorite songs.
Saaaaaame !
same lol
I don't think accents actually help learning the language. I may be in the minority but the accent symbols only happen in foreign language books. When you read a real book in Russian no single word has accents. I prefer it that way. Just learn the pronunciation of each word.
same (:
This video is absolutely splendid!✨For some reason, this makes me want to learn how to be fluent in Russian. I’m definitely gonna start binge watching. Keep up the great work darling!💜
Thank you for all the work you put into these videos. I know very little about Russia, so it's nice to get background information about these songs.
Вроде бы я знаю русский, но залипаю на эти видео с разбором, ждём разбор "Смерти больше нет")
отличная структура видео, отличные примеры, очень понравилось то, что прилагается культурный контекст. я надеюсь, эти видео будут более популярные (возможно, теги в видео или английское название помогут), но в любом случае, я рада видеть такой контент и желаю только успехов!
Спасибо :)
im discovering a bunch of songs thanks to your vids. yay!
Hello from Croatia! I just wanted to thank you for introducing us to IC3PEAK. Never heard of them before and I really like their music!
In Western Europe there is a good knowledge (on the average) of WW2, except for the Pacific side of the war (we don't study much far Eastern Culture at school, which is bad o.c.) and we well know that "The Red Army" defeated Nazis from the East side. I'm bit worried about revisionism and I'm not sure that most of countries worked out and faced their own crimes (excluding Germany). Very few had "clean hands" in the scenario.
In Canada we took no prisoners we Slaughtered our enemies even as they surrendered & ran... also Slaughtered a civilian city kuz a German sniper killed a commander while hidden in the civilian populated city.
All we learned about was the Space Race and general info about Stalin and Lenin lol I didn’t start looking into learning more on my own until I got out of school
Very well done! I don't know anything about Russian, but I learned a lot. And you presented it all very well. You can really tell that you are studying linguistics.
8:08 - I found this interesting, жрать translates "to eat" when I type it. "To fress" is bit more obscure English meaning to ravenously devour.
So, funnily enough, I learned English (my native tongue!) from you while learning Russian.
Thank you, Спасибо!
Same!!
I was able to infer a lot of what was shared in this video just by watching the music video which I think speaks volumes about how good of a political statement it is. Your video really helped contextualize some concepts that as an American I just didn’t understand or missed. I will definitely have to share this video with some friends who are fellow ic3peak lovers.
The translation and most of all explaning the metaphor was awesome.This is another side of your channel which I think is making it's success.You are always bringing different content.Much appeciated and keep up the good work.
i love your explanation, it’s so hard to learn Russian pronounciation🥺
love from Malaysia🇲🇾
Thanks! Greetings from Russia :D
This video was actually very helpful. I just started learning Russian, and as usual, i first looked for music on Russian and IC3peak was one of the first artist i liked, but when i came across mapш i didn't quite understand the references of the video, so hear I got a good translation breakdown, and understanding of the video
I really hope she makes more videos like this, I've been rewatching this and boo-hoo and it's helped me so much. I can't find any other videos that teach people Russian through IC3PEAK
You do a really great job with these translation videos. It's very informative to see the details of the words beyond just the translation.
I'm afraid Americans have a very strange view of WWII. We are taught that we were the critical contributor to the war. That's very accurate for the war in the Pacific, but a shame that we ignore the far greater contribution Russia had in Europe. I'm sure it has to do with the Cold War and our government needing propaganda, but really Hollywood is the worst about getting the story right. Our films never deviate from that viewpoint, even today, so eventually people have come to accept it. I've read up on both the European and Pacific theaters of the war and it's a great shame that 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union we have yet to learn about what Russia and the former soviet countries had to go through and how hard you had to fight to claim victory.
I leaned about the Great Patriotic War/Eastern Front this year in my world history class. My history teacher (who lived in Russia and both studied the history of Russia and the Russian language there) did mention that Russia is largely responsible for defeating the Nazis. However, I feel our class only learned this because he was educated on other perspectives of history, not just the America perspective on history. If I had been in another class with a teacher that did not have as broad of a perspective on world history, I would not have been aware of this. This is my opinion, and I am not sure how accurate it is, but I feel that in many American classes (mainly history), patriotism is made into propaganda. The textbooks in many schools are outdated and many teachers spend more time teaching about the “good and shiny” parts of American history and the victories of Americans in war rather than the bad sides of American history and even the histories of other countries. This is what gives many Americans the impression that the world revolves around America and that America is naturally superior to other countries. While I have no problem with patriotism and think that one should always be proud of the country that they came from. I strongly dislike when patriotism is used as a form of propaganda to in a way “brainwash” people into believing their country is better just because it had the most war victories in history or had a very strong military.
I do also want to say though, that I took a course on American history and how it was depicted in literature a few years ago. Because we read many books written by different people, at different points in history, with different experiences, and from different countries, I do feel that I wasn’t taught any propaganda and that I gained a more accurate perspective of American history since I learned about it from the viewpoints of multiple people. The teachers of that course also emphasized it was important we don’t just learn American history from the American perspective, but that we learn the history of all countries from multiple different perspectives. This is all just my experience though, what you learn in history depends on where you live in the country and what school you go to and how wealthy the area you live in is. I’m from Minnesota (which is consider to be a more open/liberal state than others), but I still experienced some classes where we were not taught history from multiple perspectives and instead were just taught history from the viewpoint of an American fighting in the military.
@@aynrandspetcat Thank you! I completely agree with you about the patriotism. I love Russia but don't associate myself with those who use it for brainwashing. I wish I could be proud of Russia for having the good medicine and science, not just for one event that happened in the last century. And it's cool that you have experiencing "different sides" of history teaching. I think it depends from state to state, from school to school. Greetings to Minnesota! Went I ewnt there due to my exchange program, I saw some actions that show that people are truly starting to rethink the American history, like when they renamed the Lake Calhoun as the Dakota word Bde Maka Ska, or like the way how the Father Hennepin Bluff Park in Minneapolis is equipped with the information about the heritage of the Native people. And definitely the recent protests against racism, that started in Minnesota and spread all over the country are going to bring some change.
In Europe, almost everyone considers the usa as the saviors for WWII, but we forget that nothing indicates an american intervention in Europe if Japan had not attacked the USA (forcing the USA to take sides against the AXIS).
We have been rocked by american patriotism through cinema, which has obscured certain questions that deserve to be deepened. (and which puts into perspective some current isolationist discourse in the USA)
@@mereckbxl111 Germany vs. Russia was much longer and more brutal in a way. More personal, because Germans invaded Russia, while US families were safe. More reason for russian soldiers for revenge.
Lots of my grandparents generation passionately hated the russian soldiers. Because there were many rapes and murders. Even my relatives in eastern Germany, despite their pro Russian propaganda.
So, especially in western Germany, bad experience of the ww2 generation plus US centric point of view, those may be reasons why people learnt to see the US as the destroyer of 3rd Reich, but they forget Russia.
Also US movies supported the bad feelings. Russians are still depicted as evil. If there's an evil guy, it's very likely they give him a russian accented german synchronisation.
@@mereckbxl111 and You all forget that Canadian troops in both world wars had a reputation of "take no prisoners & get shit done" they gained the most ground & kills per soldier on the allied side... & if it weren't for Hitlers early attack on Russia the Nazis would have taken over Europe then invaded both the Americas & Russia.
We learn more from your videos about your country than from any official news outlet. Be safe and keep it up, girl. Been to Minsk and visited the Museum of the Great Patriotic War there. Very impressive to learn about this side of the war. The Soviets we are against the Nazis too. (Of course I knew that, but it's different when standing there in side a former Soviet city).
Thank you for the re-upload. I waited for it while 5 months.
This IC3PEAK video is sadly more actual than ever. According to CIA 12.000, according to Ukrainian Government 47.550 Russian soldiers served as cannon fodder and already died for Russian Government for fighting against Ukraine and their civilians, where nobody knows, how many people already died.
The history in this video will repeat now for generations in tenth of thousands of families. So, if there is no revolution in Russia (and it don't seems to be the case in the next years) the next generation(s) risk to be the same as now.
And to cite IC3PEAKs projections on the wall on stage:
Stop The War - Stand With Ukraine
I love ur song analysis, they're so useful!!! Keep doing this!
Yes as an American I was taught in school of the Russian contribution to World War II and that you refer to it as the great patriotic war
Yeap, but in Russia this name is used for the period 1941-1945. 1939-1945 calls WW2
Great video again! I loved it :) It´s nice to hear your opinions about your country and the information you bring for us, I totally agree with you on the fact that those parades and so on shouldnt be the focus of the government. I really relate to your report cuz here im Brazil we have a shitty "president" , horrendous human being, if we can call him one. Recently he decided he would stop helping people in need while the pandemic, saying that there wasnt enough money, but then, he increased the militars´s salary! Our ministers fake their degrees, we simply DONT have a health minister during the pandemic, the education minister was fired, then the next one couldnt even start his job because it was discouvered that his degree was ALL false. And here, so as in Russia, the nacionalism is very used by the government to convince people everything is okay. Anyways, thank you for this awesome video!
Thank you for such a mindful comment! So sorry to hear about these problems that you have in Brazil. I didn't know about this country much, but I kind of can imagine everything you described. By the way, just a couple of days ago a video was released where Ic3peak are interviewed by apopular journalist Yuri Dud. (Eng subtitles should be added soon: ruclips.net/video/95ReakCrKX0/видео.html) and in the interview they were telling about their concert in Brazil. They said they during their time there they felt like Brazil were in some way similar to Russia, it was just warmer there.
@@NatashasAdventures thats ok hahaha aaaa Thanks for the recommendation! I'll watch this video! Yes, i think that brazil does have some similarities with russia hahaha but it is waaaaay hotter
In many countries it seems that a new kind of Autoritharism has rised: Brazil, Turkey, Russia, Eastern Europe (Poland, Hungary, Slovenia) and somewhat USA and Wester Europe too: many liberal-democracy seems weak against the economic crises, and they are turning into centralization of power, some of them openly inspired by far-right movements, some other maintaining a "traditional" dress.
I'm very worried about Brazil, because playing with the Army is not a joke and can turn into tragedy. But I can see also that there is a good power balancing and large parts of society that can prevent the worst. Be strong, friends!
Military Parades are everywhere in the world, ok not in Panama or Costa Rica..., and military propaganda is massive in Italy too. We have the higher percentage of policemen per people and the Army is the way many young unemployed guys and girls start to get a "job".
Every State need his Ceremony to show itself and people that exists, it's a way for staying in power. But I prefer to think to people coming from Lands then States...
@@ktrktta are you sure about slovenia? I mean it's like slavic switzerland and not only geographically
@@nikitaberejnoy4359 News from 16/02/2021 (automatic translation by google):
LUBIANA, 16 FEB - The Slovenian parliament did not pass a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa presented by the opposition. The votes in favor of the motion - at the end of a long debate in the classroom - were in fact 40, six less than the quorum required compared to the 90 total seats of the Assembly. The opposition accuses the government of *poor democracy, failure to respect the constitution, violation of human rights and freedom of the media.*
In bold what I mean. I know it's a modern country, I was arguing about how they are going to authritarism
This is the third video i watch on this channel and i have already learnt so much. I must have found you earlier
Hello Natasha.
I am very much enjoying your video series.
I think you are helping many people gain insight into the people and culture of Russia. Well done.
I live in Canada which, being so close to the United States, has been forever bombarded by US ideas and propaganda. My whole life I have been watching their movies and news channels. Usually they don't even include Britain as victors in WWII; to hear them you would think that they won the war single-handedly. I don't want to take away from the huge contribution they did make. Their losses were about 400, 000 for the entire war, including in the pacific. This pales beside those of Russia's. Anyone who has read a few history books and especially books concerning the eastern front would know that your country paid the highest price and (after Stalingrad) had the invading German Army in full retreat. That made the job on the western front much easier.
I am surprised to hear you criticizing the politics in your country--I had thought that freedom of speech was more restricted in Russia.
I'm learning a lot.
Your command of my language is very good. I never have any difficulty following you. When you do make a mistake, it is usually a preposition, the use of which is largely by convention and must simply be memorized.
Anyway... a pleasure to listen to you.
Be well.
about freedom of speech. In most parts of russia(except caucasus where it's extrimly bad) it's complicated question. Sometimes i think that opposition just overthing, but suddenly government making some shit related to it(trying to ban telegram or jailing guy because of twitter). So in general mostly government doing the same censorship as in other countrys(including US and europe) but sometimes they goo to far.
So in Russia you could openly criticize about both left and right, lgbt and homophobes and in most cases it would be okay and noone will cancel you(yes it's a reference to cancel coulture which i can't understand)
You are my go-to teacher for the meaning and pronunciation, I love these videos!
Your channel is taking off! I’ve been watching one video after another, and with every new video of yours that I watch, you have another 10,000 subscribers! 🤘 Keep up the great work!
I'm trying to grapple with cyrillic and videos like this are really helpful.
Hi Natasha. Please make an explanatory video of the song and the video “Страшно” from Shortparis. I love your channel
I get paid tomorrow, and your my new patron charity. I really enjoy your videos.
I always feel like military parades are really about intimidation. The reason the USSR broadcast the May Day parades around the world was to remind everyone who had the biggest hockey stick, especially the people in Warsaw Pact countries.
Omg that’s so cool, this song has such a deep meaning 🇷🇺 thank u
By the way could u keep doing this with more songs, I’d love with raif faik’s songs
Thank you so much for this great video. With recent events it seems particularly poignant. But on a lighter note I am reminded of a programme that used to be broadcast on the BBC World Service called "Pedagogical Pop" which deconstructed the lyrics of pop songs in a lighthearted way to help listeners learn English. I especially remember an episode based on "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits, which dates both me and the programme. All the best.
Потрясающая работа! Браво! И я согласна с трактовкой + очень круто, что вы рассказываете, как у нас обстоят дела с так называемым «победобесием». Смотрела реакции иностранцев, многие действительно не понимали смысл клипа. Когда я его смотрю, у меня перед глазами стоят все эти маленькие девочки и мальчики, наряженные в военную форму для парада, и их мамы в пилотках. Это грустно. А ещё всё вот это «можем повторить» и так далее. IC3PEAK молодцы, что поднимают такие темы. А вы помогаете иностранцам понять + учить язык через песни - очень хороший способ, сама так учила английский и немецкий)
Спасибо 😊 😊
Your videos are helping me expand my Russian vocabulary. Thanks from England!
Thank you for this explanation, the 'official' translations always seemed a bit clunky. Молодец!
In Poland we do learn about the "victors" of the WW2, including Russia, but no country is ever explicitly depicted as a liberator of Poland, especially Russia (due to the 'why' and the 'how' Russia decided to "liberate" us). Great video!
As a Serbian speaker, your etymological observations are fascinating.
thank you for the translation and your critical voice - good work - hope you are safe
Thank you for explaining I saw one of her songs and was very confused because I don’t know Russian and I’m not Russian so thanks! I know her songs explain Russia but didn’t know what she meant by these lines!
I love these videos! Thank you!
My theory on why we, usa, don't acknowledge is due to complicated relations after ww2. The cold War made things a little tense. I agree though. I learned about European countries in school but, how Russia specifically fared in ww2 was not mentioned.
For Капюшон, the Word in french that ressembles the most is "capuchon" and it means "bottle cap"
Though I think it comes from "capuche" (the thing on your hoodies for example that goes onto your head)
WOW! Very interesting videos...BTW I could watch you pronounce the word "video" all day.....
I abhor those trying to control and oppress people.Bless you for explaining the video You are not alone feeling angry, depressed, or feeling helpless about those things.I don't know what is the most effective solution or the easiest.We need to be passionate about each other and willing to help each other.There is something everyone can do.
This really disturbs me how they can use this for nationalistic politics.
I knew of the enormous losses that Russia had in that war which is dreadful.
Very insightfu & intelligent analysisl from you Natasha.
Awesome videos... Love your videos... Not only are you smart but beautiful. Keep up the good work.
After watching those IC3PEAK videos, I can see why nobody is smiling in Russia, as you said in another one of your videos. I am getting from the IC3PEAK video that there are unspeakable oppression and suppression of Russia's masses. Vladimir Putin needs to leave the government and be replaced with someone who advocates democracy and not autocracy. Thanks for this in-depth explanation. Keep up the good work. Natasha, you rock.
Democracy is run by globalists. Western europeans and white americans are being ethnically wiped out by "democracy". At least putin isn't ethnically replacing his own people.
Awesome video🥳
good video, i admire all the work that went into this. keep it up :)
Great Vids as always and your English is superb
I'm native English speaker (UK) and never heard the word "Fress" in my life.
Where did you read/hear it?
Is this new American slang?
I love this type of videos, they are fun and helpful! I learned a lot! keep going!
Ow yeah and as a finnish person who's great grandparents were fighting the Soviets who attacked our country in '39 I've noticed that russians like to leave out of the "great patriotic war"-concept the war with Finland, cuz it was a total mess from their side... Also since we've lived nextdoor to our giant neighbor Russia, while we belong to the "western world" we still know that the SSSR fought WITH the brits and US and french, all AGAINST the Nazis. Why do both sides try to forget that they COOPERATED and neither would've won the Nazis alone, is what I think, but they both (US and russians) like to frame it to their own people so that they single-handedly fought off the whole Nazi invasion of Europe. Also, estonians and poles and many more countries had great resistance fighters who fought against the nazi-occupation in their respected countries.
Bottomline, defeating the Nazis needed the cooperation of all the big military powers at the time, but I guess it doesnt fit their narrative today of what went on then and how it went. Also, both US and Russia are trying to rewrite history to make themselves look better in the eyes of their respective peoples... Damn politics :D
Dom is one of the few works I remember from my childhood when my mother tried to teach me some Russian - and I think of it as cognate with the English 'domicile' (deriving from Greek).
Большое спасибо.
I am learning Russian and your video is excellent.
I live in America, and when WWII is taught here, they downplay Russia's role in it A LOT. The curriculum by itself barely mentions how many Russians died during the war, or the Eastern front. I didn't know the number was so high until I took a more in depth history class in college. America's role is emphasized a lot though to make it seem more important. Excellent videos!
It is the same all over. Each country takes sole credit for victory afterwards. We needed each other.. we still need each other.
This is the first time I heard the word "fress" even. When anyone in our government, or pulic even, tries to spread revisionism, we rely on our media and "watchdogs", as well as vigilant citizens to keep freedom alive. Thank you, great video.
Hey! Another etymological detail: also compare "шрам" and "Schramme" in german. Cheers!
Great comments and analysis in this video. We all love and respect the great contribution of the Soviet Union. My father was a communist in Central America and that is how I was introduced to
'chto eto takoe" and my first attempts to learn Russian (Radio Moscow used to send training manuals). But young or nowadays Russians need not live in the past and have to build a new society with values of respect to all. The government has to respond to the people and promote better standards of living socially, financially, economically, and politically. You are working and promoting that. You are an inspiration.
Thanks for doing this! I love these videos and I wish you could do analyze Shortparis's songs too! :)
I had never heard of the word Fress even though I'm a native English speaker.
Thanks Nat.
I was also surprised because it sounds very similar to the German word fressen, which has the same meaning.
OMG i loved the video, i love ic3peak
Just wanted to say something seemingly trivial but quite important for learning a language:
When you say 'for some reason Russian people omit the O when they speak this word' what you really mean is the word has no O sound but was *written* with an O sound. It's the writing that doesn't reflect the pronunciation not the other way round as writing is supposed to just be a representation of spoken language.
Love your video, very informative. Will you do a video on the night witches.
Awesome to see; it's amazing how so much gets lost in translation. If you do more would you ever consider doing one on Хаски?
Thank you for the explanation! I was a big fan of the band and song already, but I knew that as a foreigner I would not understand some of the subtleties of the message, and this has explained a lot.
I am still curious though, is there particular significance to the symbols being shot/destroyed (Sun, rainbow, rabbit, swan, heart etc)? Eg. are they recognizable icons from Soviet/Russian children's cartoons, or overall just symbols of childhood and innocence?
Thanks! Great translation
I admire your courage in speaking your mind and posting your views on this platform. Without the then USSR effort in the East, I am not sure the Nazis would not have won. At no time did the allies in the West face more than 25% of all German military forces available. For every allied death in the West, the Germans lost 31 and the USSR 81, figures that speak for themselves. You have every reason for being proud of their heroic efforts as we do on Remembrance Day, but it should never be hijacked to promote or support a particular regime.
This is good stuff. Very helpful. My learning of the alphabet and language is difficult geographically. Thank you Yeah Russia.
You could honestly just read a Russian book for a video and I’d watch it lmao
When I was younger I saw Moscou on TV and though "what a wonderful country!" Just pretty lies... So sad
Yes but it's still a wonderful country at some point
the country is beautiful, it's true. but a pretty wrapper doesn't mean a good life.
please do more
Could you do a translation video for fairytale??
As Finnish, its interesting to think that im closer your capital than you are. And yes, we get both names great patriotic war and ww2 in our books. But i doubt if there is anything about red partizans in finnish front or even mensioned talvisota(winter war) before you get attacked by germans and to attacked finland. I have also school knowledge about pre-soviet era tsars, and times when saint peterburg wasn stalingrad or even novgorod(novaja gorod=new castle). Did you know that most of lingual groups from west to river volga, were finno-ugric family before slavs came some little less than thousand years ago?
Привет из Америки 👋🏻 я учу русский и ich lehre deutsch and I‘m a native English speaker. Мне нравится что you format these, but it looks like you spend a lot of time on editing? These songs are fairly complex, я хочу знать если мы может быть поговорим о ... a sillier and easier song?
Привет! Ich lerne auch deutsch! Вы правы, editing of this took a lot of time and I actually was going to review some easier song the next time. Спасибо за ваш комментарий и желаю удачи!
I read that this song was also about new laws to open up military propaganda to children, which was seen with parades and costumes of children (not just scouts) in military uniforms.
Can you confirm ?
One "detail" I noticed in the clip is the Orthodox priest returning the salute to the military authorities. I don't know if this is the case (I'm not Russian), but this "detail" seems to me to have significant societal meaning and would show a serious change in the relationship between the state and the Orthodox Church (the latter now being in orders of the army).
Note that seeing this attack on childish drawings and symbols also reminded me of Beslan school siege
1) I'm not sure about the laws that open military propaganda to children, but there are some organizations that are promoting it to children on different levels.
2) Indeed, military and chuch is a weird collaboration haha, building of Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces is a good example of it.
Natalia, what do u think about group Shortparis? I would like to see you commenting about their song Так закалялась сталь! thank u for the content :)))
Excellent video!
I'm from Germany and of course know a lot about the WW2. My grandparents generation participated. Every part of my family had losses. My grandma's "little" brother never returned from Stalingrad, it was a big tragedy for her, because she was kind of his mother and took care of him, she was 17 years older.
Well, many german families, many russian families have their fates... but it fades away. IMO the german government is emberassing and disrespectful towards Russia.
Oh yes, shame on that german politicians...
Can you please go through ‘МКАД’ by IC3PEAK? :)
Can you do Ckaska or Fairy tale in one of your next videos ?
I watched your other Video about the broken marriage. The bands lyrics are unarguably well executed in both videos.
That being said, why do you put yourself through this? There are 2 powerful variables here that cannot be ignored. Sound in music and Lyric. Both which affect our subconscious. So if you want to be unhappy and live that way, you give power to bands or music like this. Weather you see music as something passive or by root; way of prayer, music is a powerful influence.
People use music to describe their feelings. BUT music has a direct influence on how we feel.
Like the wise words of Brandon Boyd, "Make Yourself"
This also seems to be the last thing everyone that in the UK can agree was probably "a good thing that we did", as well. So WWII is also brought up in all kinds of incongruous places here as well, when a bit of patriotism is seen to be in order. I visited Belarus in the eighties and was struck by the similarity. It was horrifying to learn about all the villages that were basically wiped out.
From Australia, during World War II our men fought in Europe and Asia. In every suburb and village we have honour rolls. A large percentage of our men served. So it was huge in the fifties. In my secondary school we had marches at assemblies. But I'm 68 now and that influence has died with the veterans.
I had never heard the word fress. Great word to use during quarantine or for Scrabble..lol
Thank you for the insightful video. In my view, countries are always self-interested first (as illustrated in the russian name for the war - not world freedom, but patriotism to mother Russia). The same applies to USA, UK etc. Defeating Hitler was in everyone's interest. I have deep respect and appreciation for all the Ukrainian, Belorussian, Russian etc. solders that lost their lives (or worst survived the horrors). I am less convinced that any of the political powers did much altruism, but all of them use the war for their own propaganda. Worst yet, people in central and eastern european countries may be hard pressed to make the distinction between being freed and invaded - the German solders with machine guns were replaced with Russian ones - people died. The invasion laster 40 years. So, this is indeed a tough one. Hopefully time will heal ... One thing is for sure, ww II is a good propaganda tool for anyone who want to use it and has nothing to do with today's politicians.
As a Czech, I couldn't agree more.
I love your videos also, for my school at least they don’t leave out the Soviet when taking about the allied forces in ww2 because the soviets were the ones who liberated many Jews and ended the war
Thank you so much, you're the best ❣️
It's funny... in Spanish, we use the word "guirnalda" for Christmas lights, and this word sounds pretty much quite like the Russian word you used. Also, I find it very interesting how so many languages have their own unique words that are so difficult to translate - it's almost you need to explain them, rather that simply translate them - and how this unique words are, in my opinion, so related to emotions that are deeply intrinsic, so to speak, to the culture of the native speakers.
And yes, here in Spain, at least when I was a student and was taught about WWII, the decisive Russian contribution to the Allied victory was well acknowledged, but it was pointed out that many Russian casualties happened because many, many soldiers were ill-equiped for battle, and often had to rely on fallen comrades (or enemies) equipment in order to fight effectively - giving us the impression that the Russian Government didn't care so much about their own casualties, since their army vastly outnumbered the Nazis. I wonder what's your opinion about this, since I never had the chance to discuss it with a native Russian.
God bless you Natasha!
Speaking of Russian consonant combinations that are hard to pronounce, my worst one is «нр» as in «нравится». I feel like I always have to make a little stop after н and then proceed
Thank you for this video. I just found IC3PEAK and I'm in love with their music.
As an American I know well of the Soviet People's contribution to the war. The scale the eastern front is enormous compared to the west. I also know that because of very poor leadership(also part of why Russian full scaled invasion into Ukraine went so poorly) more Soviets died than was necessary. I also know that the US gave $108 billion dollars worth of assistance to the USSR during WW2. This included planes, trains, other war material, and food. USA also gave a lot of aid to Russia since the USSA collapsed, financial and technical.
Thank you so much for this, and for speaking up against discrimination of gay people, and for political situation in Russian Federation. And as someone who has grandmother from Germany, thank you for speaking up against white house totally disregarding Russian intervention in Berlin during WW2. Love you from California, USA
I like смерти больше нет
буду учиться английскому по роликам, которые учат русскому )
I'm an American. The history I learned in school about WW2 focused on the Holocaust and the US Army's role in winning the war, basically D-Day. Since my school days are long past, I've read much about the war and have come to realize that the Soviet Union did the bulk of the fighting that defeated Nazi Germany. Learning the Soviet perspective about the Great Patriotic War was very humbling. The Soviet Union absorbed the greatest invasion in human history, suffered more deaths than any other nation in any other single war, did not collapse, and eventually pushed back into Germany to capture Berlin. Considering that the Nazi war goal was monstrous, to wipe out everyone living in the European portion of the Soviet Union, the stakes could not have been greater, and you won. Given those facts, Russians, Ukrainians, White Russians, etc. have every right to be proud.
Trump wanted to be like Putin and rule forever. I hate Trump. I am very happy that he lost a free and fair election and is no longer in office. It is not surprising that Trump said what he said about WW2. He probably doesn't know, and surely wouldn't care, that the USSR did more to win the war than the USA and GB.
destroyed belarusian cities: are we a joke to you?
@@ka-bq6dl Hi, no, Belarus and their suffering during the war are not a joke to me. I meant to include them by saying White Russians, which I believe in the west was an old way to refer to Belarus. Rather than white Russian, I should have said, Belarusians. Is that correct?
I was raised in America also, a baby boomer. I think I was taught that the Soviets defeated the Nazis in the same way that they had defeated the formidable army under Napoleon. By withdrawing and ceding territory, and especially burning all of the crops. With winter setting in they were found, the Germans as had the French, to be overextended and under supported. I have never studied the particulars, and would not mind being corrected. I hope there will never again be such a war.
Thats an ingenious way to learn Russia. My father's mind was shattered by German shelling in WWII. He never really survived the war. And he died at 53 from a series of heart attacks and alcoholism. He was looked upon as a war hero from his friends. Yet He never celebrated war and was indifferent to being any type of hero. . Not a damn thing in war, his attitude was.. Needless to say preventing war is the only policy worthwhile.
The ability of the Soviet Union to stay confident after initial heavy losses in the war is legendary. A major dimension of the war can be found at the following web site: "Lend Lease Act" - wikipedia. This highly important piece of US legislation played a significant role in allowing Russia to defeat the Germans.This article gives a summary of the armament aid the US supplied to the Soviet Union in order for their defeating the Nazis on the eastern front. American presence within the Red Army and the Russian cause was a fact of reality in WWII. There were no American soldiers though on the eastern front but American military equipment. Stalin, on several occasions stated that US aid was the primary reason the Soviet Union was able to defeat the Nazis. Without US armament aid, Germany could have well ended the Soviet Union's existence. Not to speak of a possible insane extermination policy carried out by Hitler on the Russians similar to the final solution. That is making way for blond blue eyed Aryan superiority throughout the world by Hitler as he attempted to achieve lebensraum by incorporating Soviet territory into his Aryan empire. Whats fascinating, the Russian fleets involvement in the US Civil War greatly allowed the democracy of the US to survive the Civil War and keep the US in its total composition intact. By doing so the war drew to a rapid conclusion. But with Russia's participation in extinguishing the US Civil War they also protected their armament manufacturing base and territory in part, that is the US,, being such armament base, that supplied the military equipment in WWII that allowed the Russians to send the Germans into defeat. And US armament supplies were badly needed by the Red Army. Without it the Soviet Union would have collapsed.This connection to the US by Russia in the American Civil War is a fun fact that historians have not investigated. Because such participation by the Russian fleet in the US Civil War stabilized the situation of the Civil War and allowed the future potential Soviet armament base to exist intact. That is the US. You can imagine the eastern Russian fleet departing Vladivostok in 1863, and little did their sailors know that their expedition to San Francisco was a life saver for Russia's future in the middle part of the 20th century. The eastern Russian fleet back in those days of 1863 would successfully keep the Soviet Union from being extinguished by Hitler in World War II Because they secured a future armament base for the Soviet Union in the years ahead with their significant success in helping draw the US Civil War to its rapid conclusion. And thus preventing the dissolving of the US Union. And insuring the existence of a integral armament base for the Soviet Union during WWII.
Would “desperate eyes” be fitting to the untranslatable word “yearning eyes”?