Журавли With Gunfire In The Background

Artwork By Rinat Voligasmi
Artwork Name Thunderstruck
Thanks A Tramp For The Suggestion

[alidevolper]

Language knowledge = 0%
Emotions = 100%

[ashishgarg]

Feels like a dying soldier in the battlefield, remembering all his memories and family members.

[bigopalcup]

Seems like 80% of the comments here are telling a different origin story for this song.

[jarethrowe]

There is a certain, undying sadness that echos throughout Russian music, literature, culture, philosophy, and art that I think we can all connect to in some way. The Russian language is beautiful. More than that, though, the Russian people have an indestructable morale. They somehow find a way to withstand the most depressing of circumstances. It’s beautiful. Have a nice day everyone. I’m just rambling.

[glitchiboy]

Lyrics in English:

Sometimes it seems to me that the soldiers who did not come from the bloody fields did not once die in our land, but turned into white cranes. They still fly and give us voices from those distant times. Is that why we fall silent so often and become sad, while looking at the heavens? A tired wedge flies, flies across the sky, flies in the fog at the end of the day. And in that formation there is a small gap. Perhaps this is the place for me. The day will come, and with a flock of cranes I will sail in the same gray haze From under the heavens, like a bird, calling out to everyone, whom I left on earth. It sometimes seems to me that the soldiers who did not return from the bloody fields did not once die in our land, but turned into white cranes.

[petryshcka]

This song was written based on the verses of one Soviet (Avar) poet from Dagestan when he saw a monument in one village in Ossetia on which a lonely old mother looked at seven cranes flying into the distance and learned a story about a mother who lost all her seven children, and the meaning in that sometimes it seems that they are still alive, they just turned into white cranes.
"It seems to me sometimes that soldiers,
From the bloody fields that did not come,
They were not buried in the fraternal graves,
And they turned into white cranes. "
And not about the girl from Hiroshima. Although, as Rasul Gamzatov said, this is a song about any who died in this war.

[Cinnerkal_]

Эта песня так красива. Русский язык и культура прекрасны. Всегда тянуло меня к России. Рад, что я выучил язык за последние несколько лет.

[rebigo]

If anyone’s wondering: this song wrote Rassul Gamzatov- the USSR poet, he decided to write this song when he saw a memorial to a little girl with crane toys in Hiroshima ( the girl believed that her cranes will save her from the bomb ), on his way back to home he received a telegram with message that his mother died. When he finally came to his home he wrote this song in his national language, which a bit after was translated to Russian and this song became anti-war symbol, many monumental with cranes were open all over the globe.

[islam]

Не описать ту боль, которую чувствую при каждом прослушивании этой композиции.

[shahxad]

U made us experience something we won't wanna experience in real life

[danzaurusgames]

Ngl, I like the way my headphones vibrate when hearing the gunfire- it makes me feel like i'm in the middle of a gunfire, hiding while hearing this in an old radio. idk, i love it

[greatlorddracko]

there is something that make my heart cry even thought I don't speak Russian it just the melody

[ignorantsenpai]

This came on my youtube mix while driving on an empty and rainy mountain highway under storm clouds that were underlit by a dying sunset. One of the most powerful moments for me this year.

[flozzy]

Спокоен за комментарии из Европы и США, они не напишут здесь чего-то плохого. Спасибо за добрые комментарии ребята Russia🫶Europe, USA

[yusufisik]

This is way better than what i expected. This is awesome.
Greetings from Turkey.

[case]

I absolutely love Rinat Voligasmi, the artwork could've been unnamed and it would've been obvious, his work is so unique, except for him doing 342 trillion big dipper soldier guys, but they all look cool and I personally would love to have one or two of these painitngs.

[страник-эж]

Для меня спокойной и страшно слышать одновременно спокойную песню и так же звуки войны

[edwardkenwey]

в школе учили эту песню, собственно как и другие военные песни

[AlbertStoun_]

Стихи Расула Гамзатова. Светлая память. Земля пухом

[ДмитрийСтаниславович-лъ]

Who didn't know:
This song is dedicated to one North Ossetian family. Mother and Father sent 7 of their children to war, and all 7 did not return, at first the father could not stand it, and then the mother.