Russian soldiers sings: Just don't tell mom that I'm going to Bakhmut

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[Taskicore]

What's wild about this is how you can literally hear explosions and gunfire in the background.

[XxboxodxX-nkmz]

"Soldiers aren't numbers. They are husbands, fathers, sons and brothers"

[iamfortunate]

The level of “at peace with myself” you gotta have to sing so well without your voice trembling in the middle of war is next level.

[lovelylipbonesouwwwwwwwolv]

Historians will study this video and try to track down the guy who played the guitar one day...

[spacealcoholic]

It’s so unbelievably sad that all those kids have to die, regardless of the side. Most of the dudes dying on the frontline are clearly really young…

[CandyBaron_]

I had a Russian pen-pal, me and him played G-mod all the time. He was a cool fucking dude, spoke Russian, German, and Ukrainian, he was also a engineer. When he told me he got drafted back to Russia, I played him this song (Not this version, but the og one about Afghanistan) in English cuz my Russian sucks ass. Boris, I hope you didn't lie when you said you were fixing helicopters.

[AqvaSerpentis]

This incredibly piece of history has whatsapp in the lyrics, we truly are in an interesting time

[usgusdus]

The empty landscape, the gray atmosphere, the war-thorn buildings, the cold, the very distant gunfire, the loneliness... hauntingly beautiful and sad

[hakijin]

In 10 years some kid with depression is gonna put this in his doomer playlist

[HomeGymHero]

I’ve been deployed twice and I gotta say this bought back some memories. When you have someone like this in your unit it’s priceless. Helps you get your mind off all of the death and destruction for a minute.

[mihirshetye]

The Black Tulip he is singing about refers to the An-12 Cargo plane which earned this nickname after it was used to carry back bodies of Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

[bacil_]

In about 15-20 years i can see this in a history classroom

[tectonpro]

0:53 -- The word "Tourist" means a fighter of a private military company (Pmc). They got this nickname because they have to fight in a variety of exotic countries.

[rncynyt]

Деды пели эту песню про Афганистан, сыновья про Чечню, внуки поют про Украину. Надеюсь правнукам эту песню петь не придется.

[thehoistandard]

I never considered a guitar a colorful object, until I saw this😔

[borisblocksberg]

The fact this video is not color edited and the guitar is the only colorful thing in this scenario gives vibes from the Girl in the red jacket in Shindlers List - but this time its real wtf

[sandercohen]

"we're making history... but noone will remember me"

[GlassHalfEmptyplus]

This video haunts me sometimes. It's the epitome of the human experience: making art in the depths of hell to make it a little better.

[ficho]

Evolution of this song from afghanistan to chechnya to ukraine really proves that history repeats and rhymes

[tea]

Son: Don't tell mom im in Bakhmut

Father: Don't tell mom im in Chechnya

Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Afghanistan

Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Berlin

Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Petrograd

Don't tell mom im in Manchuria

Don't tell mom im in Sofia

Don't tell mom im in Crimea

Don't tell mom im in Turkestan

Don't tell mom im in Paris

Don't tell mom Warsaw

Don’t tell mom I’m in Odessa

Don’t tell mom I’m in Prussia

Don’t tell mom I’m in Finland

Don’t tell mom I’m in Iran

Don’t tell mom I’m in Sweden

Don’t tell mom I’m in Serbia

Don’t tell mom I’m in Riga

Don’t tell mom I’m in Smolensk

Don’t tell mom I’m in Livonia

Don’t tell mom I’m in Lithuania

Don’t tell mom I’m in Kazan

Don’t tell mom I’m in Muscovy 2

Don’t tell mom I’m in Muscovy

Don’t tell mom I’m in Kulikovo

Don’t tell mom I’m in Tver 3

Don’t tell mom I’m in Tver 2

Don’t tell mom I’m in Tver

Don’t tell mom I’m in Wesenberg

Don’t tell mom I’m in Kiev

Don’t tell mom I’m in Novgorod

Don’t tell mom I’m in Cumania

Don’t tell mom I’m in Lemnos

Don’t tell mom I’m in Constantinople 2

Don’t tell mom I’m in Khazaria

Don’t tell mom I’m in Pechennegia

Don’t tell mom I’m in Constantinople

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