While I didn’t get the humor video, I loved the Red Army Choir Kalinka palette cleanser! If the Red Army fights as well as it sings, we’re in BIG trouble.
The rousing Red rendition made me proud to have Russian heritage (though I’m a fierce American patriot now, so don’t cancel me). My Dad’s parents were from Grodno on the Polish border. My Mom’s grandparents also were from Russia, but I don’t know where.
Grandpa Joe (born 1890) fled the Tsars at age 19, became a barber in NYC who cut Nikola Tesla’s germ-free hair, moved to AZ in ~1950, and lived to 99. Grandpa was left-handed but forced to cut right-handed when learning his trade in the Old Country. I still have his barber’s shears and they are amazingly fine and sharp.
My dad had a gorgeous tenor voice, despite not being in the Red Army — just the US Army where he trained American cavalry soldiers at Ft. Riley, KS, during WWII. Wow, families!
Somehow those Finnish goofballs were able to perform with the Red Army Choir, and I have no idea how they managed to convince the humorless Great Soviet Bear to throw in with them.
The “palatte cleanser”: notice how elderly and middle aged the soloist and chorus members are? The young ones are cannon-fodder at the Ukrainian fronts. Wiping out an entire generation of potential Red Army Chorus singers.
My grandparents left various parts of Russia to escape virulent antiSemitism and official progroms. Went to Hamburg, Germany, took a ship to England, then to USA, Buffalo, NY and finally, Los Angeles, CA. One grandfather was not Jewish but lived among Jews and spoke Yiddish. He would play recordings of Russian opera singers and Red Army Chorus.
The Finnish group did a kickass hilarious send-up of a great American song - and the back-up vocals were pretty sweet! Everyone looks happy.
The second -was nodding off until that whistler - wow
I will. Loved the voices and their rapt faces..
Kalinka is such a beautiful song. Look up the lyrics.
While I didn’t get the humor video, I loved the Red Army Choir Kalinka palette cleanser! If the Red Army fights as well as it sings, we’re in BIG trouble.
The rousing Red rendition made me proud to have Russian heritage (though I’m a fierce American patriot now, so don’t cancel me). My Dad’s parents were from Grodno on the Polish border. My Mom’s grandparents also were from Russia, but I don’t know where.
Grandpa Joe (born 1890) fled the Tsars at age 19, became a barber in NYC who cut Nikola Tesla’s germ-free hair, moved to AZ in ~1950, and lived to 99. Grandpa was left-handed but forced to cut right-handed when learning his trade in the Old Country. I still have his barber’s shears and they are amazingly fine and sharp.
My dad had a gorgeous tenor voice, despite not being in the Red Army — just the US Army where he trained American cavalry soldiers at Ft. Riley, KS, during WWII. Wow, families!
Somehow those Finnish goofballs were able to perform with the Red Army Choir, and I have no idea how they managed to convince the humorless Great Soviet Bear to throw in with them.
And I love stories about how we all got to this glorious, quarrelsome, beautiful, mess of a nation. We ARE the world!
Holy crap!
Secular crap?
I'm stunned by the spectacle!
The “palatte cleanser”: notice how elderly and middle aged the soloist and chorus members are? The young ones are cannon-fodder at the Ukrainian fronts. Wiping out an entire generation of potential Red Army Chorus singers.
My grandparents left various parts of Russia to escape virulent antiSemitism and official progroms. Went to Hamburg, Germany, took a ship to England, then to USA, Buffalo, NY and finally, Los Angeles, CA. One grandfather was not Jewish but lived among Jews and spoke Yiddish. He would play recordings of Russian opera singers and Red Army Chorus.
Many of the youngsters jumped Putin’s ship. It’s good to know that so many know when a war is unjust and refuse to support it.