Farewell of Slavianka

Yes, this is the particular Russian song that’s been running through my head for days. Thanks to Paul for tracking it down.

The video is a bit silly, (no, it’s growing on me in a hurry, I just couldn’t take that AK-47 image very seriously at first) but the other options were looking either at a motionless Lenin or motionless sickle and hammer for about 2 minutes and 35 seconds.

My favorite part of the song is the voiceless bridge at around 1:40, which always makes me think of a Salvation Army band on steroids.

[ADDENDUM: Does anyone else remember footage of this song played very poorly and flatly by a 5-piece band as VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY dismounted from a train? That was the same interview program, perhaps on 60 Minutes in the USA in around 1994, in which Zhirinovsky was asked whether he was a harmless clown or a dangerous clown. His response, with the richest smirk I have ever seen, was: “I am not clown.”]