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I subtitled a video about Ukrainian civil war set to the famous song “Cuckoo” by 90’s band Kino, I
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When Chengis Khan organized the nomadic Mongol and Tatar tribes into a highly disciplined
force in the 13th century, it turned out that all other nations have already become civilized and
complacent, and no one could stand up to hardy men that rode horses before they could walk
and trained to hold a bow before they could ride. The Golden Horde smashed the huge Chinese
and Persian empires, forever changing the fate of the world.

When Mongols reached Russia, the Russian Princes were busy squabbling among brothers and The
did not manage to unite in time. [song lyrics] “The strong and the brave stood firm in the field – Essential
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Russians passed under the Mongol yoke, many were driven off as slaves and the rest had to pay
tribute to foreign overlords. [song lyrics] “Our sweet freedom, where are you now? … It was good
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After a century of oppression, Prince Dmitry of Moscow rose up against the Khan and rallied all
free men to his banner. All Russian princedoms forgot their differences and joined. By that time,
many formerly Russian lands were ruled by Lithuanians or other rulers loyal to the Khan – “few
still remember, of firm body and mind”; but even there, many broke with their masters and came
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Knowing that the Khan was personally coming to punish the rebels and his army still hugely Humor
outnumbered the Russians, Dmitry put his army with their backs to a river, so they could not
retreat. Old songs speak of 300,000 Tatars against 150,000 Russians, but modern historic
estimates put the numbers at around 125,000 Tatars against 60,000 Russians.

For comparison, one of the largest European battles of the time, Poitiers, that nearly destroyed Kindle $9.99
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The fighting went on for most of the day, with both sides taking very heavy losses. Prince Dmitry
gave his armor to his retainer, and fought as a common knight himself; the retainer was cut down,
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and the Grand Prince heavily wounded. When, in the end, Russian infantry started giving ground,
hidden Russian knights suddenly charged out of a forest and “rolled” the Mongol line, leading to a
general rout; the Mongol army was destroyed, and the Khan soon got assassinated by a rival.

This impossible feat of beating an empire that conquered half the known world is said to have
forged the Russian nation – soldiers came onto Kulikovo field as men of Princedoms of Tver,
Suzdal, Rostov, Yaroslavl, Polotsk, Murom, Smolensk, Ryazan… and left as men of Russia.

This scenario repeated several times afterward:

Early 17th century (so-called “Time of Troubles”), the last Rurikid Tsar died, state largely
collapsed and Poles installed an impostor on the throne – a minor noble Pozharsky and a
merchant Minin called up a people’s militia and drove them out (those are the people on “Tatzhit”
userpic, by the way).

Napoleon’s invasion of 1812 – the army that took over Europe collapsed due to being unable to
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And of course the Nazi invasion of USSR, when Nazis encircled and destroyed the professional
Soviet army in the blitzkrieg, only to be faced with an endless stream of volunteers replacing
those that fell (see more in footnotes to the video below)

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This same spirit is what drives the republican forces in Donbass now: initially very heavily
outnumbered and outgunned, they held out through the first summer facing objectively
impossible odds, stopping modern tanks with obsolete WWII anti-tank rifles, etc. (cue Dremov
and such – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPw–TNpNQg ).

It is also worth noting that many of the militiamen are men in their 40s and 50s, who are propelled
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PS. One other note: “Tell me, cuckoo. Count time.” refers to the Russian superstition that the
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repetitive call of the cuckoo tells the listener how many years one has left to live (interestingly,
Germans also believe this).

PPS. Also worth noting that the May 2nd, 2014 Odessa massacre, which was in many ways the TRANSFIGURATION – AUGUST 19TH
precipitating event that escalated armed standoffs into a full-blown civil war, happened in the
square named “Kulikovo square” after the 1380 battle.

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Duff on June 27, 2015 · at 9:06 pm UTC RSS OF THE FRENCH SAKER
The song: “Tell me, cuckoo. Count time.”
From popular Soviet film “Optimistic Tragedy” L’étrange logique derrière la quête
https://youtu.be/i7rHTRTN7CE d’énergies « renouvelables »
La démolition de la puissance mondiale
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Larchmonter445 on June 27, 2015 · at 9:09 pm UTC Chine-Russie : le retour à l’étalon-or ?

An award-worthy film. The editorial judgments and the emotion and pathos captured
are used by Tatzhit in a powerful poem of image and sound. RSS OF THE RUSSIAN SAKER

The original content was excellent craftsmanship of camera and sound recording.
Неоконы и «глубинное государство»
Reusing it this way so an historical connection to all of Russian martial legends is
выхолостили смысл президентства
constructed is inspired work.
Трампа
It is a tribute to the heroes of Donbass, a memorial to the victims of the criminal war В Соединённых Штатах полным ходом
waged by Kiev, and an eternal flame in the fight for Liberty against Tyranny. идёт «цветная революция»

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I’ve worked on over 800 films, won many awards, some Oscars and nominations, Разочарование и цинизм
some International film awards. I wished I had worked on this one in my long career.

It is addictive. I’ve played it a dozen times since I first saw it several days ago. RSS OF THE ITALIAN SAKER

Thank you.
Venezuela, le Magliette Rosse occupano la
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Tatzhit Mihailovich on June 28, 2015 · at 12:18 am UTC S. Pietroburgo
Well, note that I merely made the subtitles, the guy who made the music L’Europa smetterà di prendere ordini da
video is listed under “Source” :). I’ll pass your kind words to him though – Washington?
he’s quite approachable.

Out of curiosity, in what capacity did you work? If someone pointed out
good training videos on voice acting, for example, that would be quite
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helpful :)

Reply El proyecto de ley de nuevas sanciones a

Rusia es el monumento de Washington a
Uncle Bob 1 on June 27, 2015 · at 10:43 pm UTC su criminalidad

Great article and videos. Every time I see things like this,I think “does Russia really Declaración emitida por el Ministerio de
think these people will accept living under the junta”,what are they smoking.If they Asuntos Exteriores de Rusia
are forced to kneel to the junta.What will be the reaction of the thousands of now Entrevista exclusiva a Maduro: “Ellos han
battle-hardened Russians that have gone and shed their blood to protect their apostado todo por una sola vía: la
brothers.And the tens,maybe hundreds of thousands of Russians involved inside violencia”
Russia with supporting Donbass. I would not want to disappoint those people if I sit
in the Kremlin.It could be a fatal error for any Russian government to be seen as
traitors in their eyes.The video where it was asked “can you smile” and answered RSS OF THE SERBIAN SAKER
“Nyet” should cause deep soul searching in Moscow.
Владимир ДИМИТРИЈЕВИЋ: ТЕШКА ЈЕ
As for the junta on the other side.They need to remember what happened in
РУКА НЕМАЊИЋА САВЕ ИЛИ ЗАШТО
Germany after the return of the German troops from WWI.That led directly to the
СЕ НЕ ОБЕЛЕЖАВА ВАЖНА
“freikorp’s” and to the rise of Hitler.The best thing for Russia,Novorossia,Ukraine,and
ГОДИШЊИЦА
ultimately all Europe.Would be the utter defeat of the junta.And denazification in the
МИЛО ЛОМПАР: О промени свести
region.
АЊА ФИЛИМОНОВА: Признање
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Tatzhit Mihailovich on June 28, 2015 · at 12:14 am UTC

People being pissed about Donbass being betrayed is what I call the SELECT 9/11 TRUTH LINKS
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Paul II on June 28, 2015 · at 1:07 am UTC

The ending quote is worth repeating. All the drills and Investigating the Saudi's connection to 9/11
discussions about new tanks are not the issue. The issue is ReThink911 is Officially Airborne
more about having a people and a ruling class who believe 9/11 Truth Film Festival - 50 Years of
in standing up to the West. Deception - From JFK to Today
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The overall problem with doing shows of force – that was
needed in the previous era.

If you watch Soviet training exercise footage from the 80s,

there are bridges built across huge rivers in 30-60 minutes,
armadas of tanks pouring through, everything working as a
Swiss watch… But all of that was useless because people
didn’t know what they’re fighting for.

And if, God forbid, we get defeated in the Donbass, the

Russian regular army may also go down without firing a
shot.
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Daniel Rich on June 27, 2015 · at 11:28 pm UTC

@ Tatzhit Mihailovich.

Thank you.

Armed with the right information, we won’t be shooting in the dark. But remember,
tracers work both ways…

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Tatzhit Mihailovich on June 28, 2015 · at 12:15 am UTC

I try to keep that in mind, yes :) But in the end, truth helps us more than
the enemy

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elsi on June 28, 2015 · at 12:41 am UTC

Thank you very much Tatzhit for the videos and the historical account, those of us
who know almost nothing about Russian history we expect more.

Beautiful Video with the song of Kino “Kukuska” I love the song and I love Kino.
Viktor Tsoi I consider a great artist, although he and me, I guess, we would not agree
on many things, or maybe yes … .
His songs are very evocative and convey much.
In the end, music is art and as such lends itself to different and personal
interpretations. Imagine, for my ПЕРЕМЕН! today is like an anthem for me and those
who resist here in the West.

I like a lot these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOflNwahs6U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7BFXss1hE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuQkQEcsm5Y

The old video about the family that slowly are realizing that everyone has to fight is
very timely, given the circumstances.
I think that we, here, at least at times, we are aware that we will have to fight hard as
they do now fellow comrades in Donbass.
I just hope to get well, have the strength and not faint, and be as brave as them.

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Ben on June 28, 2015 · at 12:58 am UTC

Concerning Mongols and the Golden Horde, there are two Russian films that I
watched some time ago, both films are very good, imho, and here they are in full
version

2007 Russian historical film about the early life of Temüjin, who later came to be
known as Genghis Khan. It is directed by Sergei Bodrov, with the storyline conceived
from a screenplay written by Bodrov and Arif Aliev.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Ni0szmrJU

a 2012 historical film directed by Andrei Proshkin and written by Yury Arabov. The
film is a highly fictionalised narrative of how Saint Alexius healed Taidula Khatun, the
mother of the Golden Horde khan Jani Beg from blindness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGOlVJJKBQA

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вот так on June 28, 2015 · at 4:01 am UTC

Wow! The Donbass Self-Defense: “My open hand now turned into a fist…” work is
incredibly well done. The others are well done, as well. This version of the Кино song
“Кукушка” sung by Polina Gagarina is also well done.

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For those unfamiliar with Кино/Kino and Viktor Tsoi, their reputation in Russia is
something like a combination of “The Beatles” and “Elvis Presley” with regard to all
time popularity and their role in the creation of Soviet rock music. This is a video put
to their original version of the song:

Кино. “Кукушка”.

The pictures at the beginning are Kino’s album covers. The film scenes I believe are
from the film Игла/Igla/Needle, which Tsoi starred in. More than 10 years after Tsoi’s
death and the disbanding of Kino, Земфира/Zemfira did a live version of Кукушка on
Russian television. At the time, she was probably the most popular singer/musician
in Russia:

Zemfira – Kukushka (Земфира – Кукушка)

Her emotions while performing and reaction of the audience show how Russians
were still moved by this song. This page has the lyrics in Russian and English for
those who want to see them all in one place. The translation is very similar to the one
by TM.

Кукушка / Kukushka / Cuckoo

BTW, it was a line from this song which I chose for a nick.

Maks Fadeev, who is credited in the Donbass Self-Defense: “My open hand now
turned into a fist…” work, is a long time musician, as well as music, film and
television pruducer and director. Many famous Russian music groups got their start
through him, including several of the Russian entrants in the Euro Song Competition.
He has several films and television productions under his belt. One of his music
videos from the 1990s of his own work:

Максим Фадеев “Беги по небу”

A video he made for Linda around the same time:

Линда “Танец под водой”. 1994г.

This video is one he produced this year:

НАРГИЗ – “ТЫ-МОЯ НЕЖНОСТЬ”

One of his more famous films is Triumph: The Red One from about 2000:

Триумф

A grim story about young adolescent gangs and drug dealers taking place at the end
of the 90’s. Shows the Yeltsin brought about decay very well, both mental and the
living conditions. Has English subtitles.

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Ann on June 28, 2015 · at 7:23 am UTC

Hi Everyone ! This is ot…but really really pretty song and singer – Serbian holy
music

https://youtu.be/OENqd-K7abM

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Ann on June 28, 2015 · at 7:32 am UTC

here’s another great singer and song..its called the werewolf prince

https://youtu.be/d594P1bMkDI?list=PL52797922AC634671

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вот так on June 29, 2015 · at 4:48 am UTC

Ann

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Both Divna Ljubojević and Пелагея sing well. As for songs about
“Оборотень”, another:

Мельница – Оборотень (Дикие травы. Олимпийский)

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Dragan on June 28, 2015 · at 12:01 pm UTC

Today Serbs celebrate Vidovdan.

Here is a video with a song. Please be bothered to read commentary about the
lyrics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvyxdhCFbY&feature=youtu.be

And another one from the movie Nephews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QI1aM2_ErE

WIth titles for anyone interested

Brothers, Kosovo is swarming

with soldiers.

Were we grains of salt instead

of warriors…

… we could not salt

the Turkish army’s dinner.

Brothers, just because the

enemy is considerable…

… is it any reason for us not

to defend our homeland?

Battle is not fought by

shining weapons, …

… but by the hearts of heroes.

Other people’s feet wont

trample all over our country.

My friends, we’d rather

be ploughing the land, …

… listening to the shepherd’s

pipes, …

… celebrating a wedding or
mounting our women.

But when the cloud of an enemy

is hanging above Serbia, …

… we all must take our guns

and polish our boots. All of us.

Kiss your bride, bless the kids

and the baby in its cradle, …

… and off to battle.

Mighty is the oath of

our righteous prince!

And he who comes not to

fight at Kosovo, …

… beneath his hand let nothing

decent grow.

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Let him rust away like
dripping iron, …

… until his name shall

be extinguished!

Woe be to him on whose head

falls the despise…

… of his own people, his

ancestors and descendants.

There is no greater
punishment that that.

My friends, my brothers,
soldiers, heroes!

Your lives are no more. The

Supreme Command has erased…

… our regiment from its

records. None of us will return.

Many mothers will wear black.

Many widows and sisters will

tear out their hair.

But victory will be ours.

Because justice is on our side.

God is on our side.

Our people are behind us.

An army which has its people

behind it is invincible.

My sons, my falcons!

Don’t have the hearts of

cowards, but of heroes!

There’s nothing that can’t be

brought before the altar of…

… your homeland! No price is

too high to pay….

… when the honour of the

fatherland is at stake!

My friends. If anyone wants

to piss on our hearths, …

… rob our graves, upset

our cradles, …

… for him there can be

no mercy. True? -True!

-I can’t hear you. True?

-TRUE!

-True?
-TRUE!

Be merciless with enemies,

be gracious with prisoners.

Gallantry is more important

than heroism.

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They want our country,
they’ll get jackshit!

A steaming, rancid pile of shit

– that’s what they’ll get.

Before us stands uncertainty,

the enemy, hunger and death.

But the hour of the final

victory is nigh.

What’s ours is ours. We don’t

need anything from anyone else.

Nothing is dearer than Serbia!

Isn’t that true, my brothers?!

TRUE!

-True, my friends?!
-TRUE!

-True, my falcons?!
-TRUE!

-True, Serbs?!
-TRUE!

His words have the power

to heal.

We bow down to you, Major sir!

-Long live the Major!

Long live Katunac!

That’s the spirit!

So onward to glory,
for the king, …

… for the fatherland, for our

sweet Orthodox God, …

… for the honour of the cross

and precious freedom.

To battle, to freedom, to death!

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Uncle Bob 1 on June 29, 2015 · at 3:55 am UTC

One of my favorite Serbian songs of Kosovo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=w_ZMouBnEjU&index=32&list=RDUGSEVM0Q4Cc

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Anonymous on June 28, 2015 · at 1:22 pm UTC

Russians are too kind for their own good.

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teranam13 on June 28, 2015 · at 6:12 pm UTC

re: Russia and the legacy of serfdom. A group of us were discussing the legacy of
racism in our country dating back to when in the 1860’s Afro Americans went from
being slaves tied to the land to wage slaves tied to the land in defacto terrorist states
as a Northern Industrialist-Southern Agrarian political pact was stuck. Then someone
popped up with the fact that the serfs in Russia were supposedly “freed” in the

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1860’s—so how is Russia today on the edge of the computer age with a much more
educated population still affected by the lingering echoes of this ?

None of us, it seems knew a darn thing about Russia except—weren’t there peasant
revolts lead by Mozgovoi type figures which were brutally suppressed? And wasn’t
there always this Nobility-Intelligencia alliance that would periodically try to
assassinate the Czar? Oh, and there were always career bureaucrats with lifetime
positions who kept things humming along in the usual ruts? ( unlike in the US where
they would be replaced periodically when the party in National power changed). And
everything was appointed from the top down? We started laughing and saying that
everything we knew about Russia came from Tolstoy. How many of you ( no lying)
have actually slogged through War and Peace? we asked one another. Hey, I always
liked those long religio-philosophical discussions in Dostoyevsky, sez I. And he was
big on redemption by the love of a good woman.

Seriously, the question about serfdom and its reverberation though history is a
worthy one especially since the challenge of Russia is not to become the Sparta of a
Sino-Russian alliance but rather to become the cutting edge of change in the world.
There is no 5 year or 50 year plan for this but rather it is a profoundly creative
pioneering process that requires a certain mind set. Whoever came up with that
proposal in Armenia ( i.e. we will audit the books of the electric company and assess
the electrical use situation in Armenia ( solar power grids anyone?) and in the
meantime the difference in rate will be absorbed)…someone was thinking with that
kind of mindset for how things need to be done in the future.

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Uncle Bob 1 on June 29, 2015 · at 3:46 am UTC

The crucial difference between African slavery in the US (and its

aftermath).Compared to Russian serfdom, was race.The African (and
US born “African-Americans” were never accepted as full citizens
compared to the other US citizens.And never were allowed to “melt in
the melting-pot”.While in Russia the serfs were mostly fellow ethnic
Russians.And most of the entire peasant farming class had been in
serfdom.That wasn’t particular to Russia either.But was true throughout
Central and Eastern Europe (and some areas in Western
Europe).Serfdom lasted in those countries until the French Revolution in
some, and depending on the country ,until the 1840’s in others.Russia’s
ending of it was the 1860’s,but in the Baltic areas (today’s Baltic States)
and in Russian Poland, Russia ended it much earlier.They used those
areas as “test” cases. To see if it would be a feasible idea for the ethnic
Russian areas of the Empire to implement .

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eimar on June 28, 2015 · at 9:28 pm UTC

That was a really beautiful video Tatzhit. Thank you so much.

Recognised some of the folk from war footage: the woman who lost her son ‘who
never hurt anyone’ ( and whose daughter and her baby were also hurt badly in the
shelling ) I remember from one of Graham Phillips reports (about five weeks ago I
think.)

I have circulated it on the enemy front – Facebook.

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elsi on June 28, 2015 · at 10:54 pm UTC

Donbass is winning because they were really prepared and many men had military
training.

It seems that for some military training begins early in life:

“The All-Girl Soldier Club: Child Warriors of Donetsk”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vJPL6PYDTM

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