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[REGNUM] For almost three months, from the beginning of October to the end of December 1991, the situation in Tbilisi remained extremely tense. A rally of "Zviadists" was going on almost continuously near the Government House. The opposition organized demonstrations along the central streets of the city and periodically marched to the Government House. Several times the oppositionists and the “Zviadists” stood there one against the other, ready to engage in mortal combat. These dramatic moments were broadcast live by Georgian radio. Continued on Page 49
Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
"Tochka-U" in Kramatorsk
THIS IS THE NUMBER!
I was waiting for this. I did not raise the topic, I decided to give the Ukrainian side time until Monday, and then ask the question - why are they hiding the serial number of the rocket that fell in Kramatorsk? The Ukrainian side never published it. But the journalists of the Italian TV channel La7 published , who managed to remove the fragments of the 9M79-1 rocket of the Tochka-U complex.
On the frames, the serial number of the product is Ш(Sh)91579. These are figures from the same batch as the missiles that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already used in Donbass. Reference: according to the LostArmour service, the Sh915 series ... was previously used by the Ukrainian military in the following settlements:
This is the number of the Ukrainian rocket shot down near Debaltseve in 1515. The tail number on the product shows its belonging to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. If we compare the number with the number of the rocket from Kramatorsk, we can see that they are not just from the same series, but even from the same military unit.
All this smacks of a real leak of the Nazis, who made and carried out the decision to strike at Kramatorsk. A deliberate mistake was made, the serial number of the rocket was shown to the whole world.
[Chervonec] The SBU plans to shoot a staged video of the “murder of Russian military men” who allegedly arrived in Irpin “to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes.”
The scenario is as follows:
“SBU employees are planning to bring from the morgue at the city hospital on Polevaya Street to the basement of one of the buildings on the eastern outskirts of Irpin the bodies of local residents killed by Ukrainian artillery shelling. Then, in the Pushcha-Voditsky forest area, the SBU will organize a staged action with shooting and “destruction” of the alleged “Russian intelligence group” that arrived in Irpin “to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes,” Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said.
This is the brand "Ukrainian filmmakers". They don’t know how to govern a country, but they know how to create photos, videos, videos according to a pre-prepared scenario. It's time to introduce them to the Hollywood Academy for special merits in fooling people. A bunch of Western provocateurs-screenwriters are working in Ukraine... And they will churn out these provocations like on a conveyor belt... Filling their info space with fakes.
Both the monstrous provocation in Bucha and the one that is being prepared in Irpen are being carried out on the territory abandoned by the Russian troops. Left as a "sign of good will", according to our diplomats. But what "signs of good will" can be given to the Nazis during the war with them?! "Gesture of good will" at the talks from Medinsky is already coming around. A Zelensky drug addict with a Napoleon complex, and we are playing good Christians. It's time to understand with whom we are dealing.
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[ColonelCassad] During the Great Patriotic War, Goethe was not withdrawn from any Soviet library. No orchestra has excluded Wagner from the repertoire.
Not true, actually. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra refused to perform Wagner from Kristallnacht in 1938 until 2012.
And today Russia also does not refuse either Taras Shevchenko or Lesya Ukrainka.
Nobody cancels Twain and Dreiser. No one thinks of throwing O'Henry out of the libraries. No one will ever cancel William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, despite the fact that both are English, and one of them is completely homosexual.
We loved, we love and we will love. We value them not because of their nationality, sexual orientation or attitude towards slavery. But because they are more than the British or Americans, more than adherents of any political views.
They are the property of the world. And ours too. By accepting samples of world culture, we do not impoverish our own, but enrich it.
By canceling Dostoevsky or Tchaikovsky, the West does not take anything from Russia - only from itself.
Agreed.
Because we are talking about a world heritage to which the Americans, the British, the Russians, and representatives of many other countries have contributed. Tolstoy and Bulgakov do not care how they are treated in the West. They cannot be belittled or humiliated.
Because immortals don't care about political squabbles. You are not canceling them, you are canceling a part of the great culture in yourself. And Russia will never give up either Shelley or Villon or Salinger. We are not idiots.
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[ColonelCassad] During the Great Patriotic War, Goethe was not withdrawn from any Soviet library. No orchestra has excluded Wagner from the repertoire.
He's obviously talking about Russian orchestras. Israel is totally irrelevant.
His point is that the West has hysterically applied its stupid "cancel culture" to Russia's extraordinary collection of brilliant classical musicians, singers and conductors, while Russia continues to place culture above politics. This belies shallow and embarrassing claims about Western "superiority"; it is in fact the Russians who have the high ground and can claim to be more civilized.
Heather Mac Donald agrees: Classical Music Cancels Russians: Denounce Putin, or Be Blacklisted
The classical music establishment demands that Russian musicians condemn their nation’s invasion of Ukraine in order to retain jobs and engagements in the West.
March 16, 2022
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He's obviously talking about Russian orchestras.
Ah. I missed that point, having assumed he was talking worldwide, where the only orchestra I was aware of ever having refused to perform a composer was Israel’s.
#3
The classical music establishment demands that Russian musicians condemn their nation’s invasion of Ukraine
And we demand it begin in 'e' flat minor and conclude with a tremolo. Accompaniment of a flute at the end would further convince this community of artists that the apology for being Russian is sincere.
#8
What the hell you going to cancel if you don’t have nothing to cancel about. In the west (England in particular), you have nothing, British will be very lucky if going to have food in the the nexts 6/8 months. You wish the opponent disappear? This is faggotry homosexual talk, British homosexuals ‘’invented’’ cancel culture. and the idiot in America embrace this homosexual tradition. There is nothing to discuss.
Instead to discuss this garbage you should piss on their faces. Insult them spit on them. When you discuss them you are accepting their British cultural trash. instead rantburg faithful discuss this trash…. Cancel culture, woke wokism liberalism…bs
#9
Interesting that the cancellation of Russian musicians and composers is the logical consequence of the Black Lives Matter cancellation of the "whiteness" of great composers such as Beethoven.
"Compelled speech is becoming routine in academia. On campuses, faculty candidates for hiring and tenure increasingly must attest to their dedication to diversity to be considered for a job or a promotion.
Now the classical music establishment is adopting that same norm. Russian musicians are being asked to condemn President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine to retain jobs and performing engagements in the West. Staying above the fray is not an option, and denouncing the war will not ward off cancellation. Russian musicians must criticize Putin by name or be blacklisted.
Classical music’s recent self-abasement for its “whiteness” laid the groundwork for this presumptive group guilt. Since the George Floyd race riots in May and June 2020, directors of orchestras, opera companies, and conservatories have lambasted their own field for its historical demographics, said to be inextricably linked to racism. Music critics have sneered at Beethoven and other composers for having allegedly leveraged their whiteness to achieve undeserved acclaim.
Mea culpas and promises of fealty to Black Lives Matter have become de rigueur in mission statements and fundraising pitches. Now these coerced confessions are demanded of a subset of musicians whose Russianness makes them as suspect as whiteness does the entire Caucasian population. Even Russian music itself faces a political litmus test.
#11
A year ago all the orchestras large and small were falling all over themselves to insert marginal junk by black composers into their repertoires and programs.
Now they're signaling they "Support The Current Thing" by playing the Ukrainian National Anthem, which sucks and is painful to listen to. Swapping out Beethoven, swapping in George Floyd's brethren, now Ukrainian propaganda. You just can't make this stuff up.
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Music critics have sneered at Beethoven and other composers for having allegedly leveraged their whiteness to achieve undeserved acclaim.
What the...??? So Beethoven "leveraged his whiteness" for "undeserved acclaim"? These people are insane. The BLM cancel culture madness is out of control
#15
Obviously those people have never listened to a high quality recording of Rimsy-Korsimov’s Shaherazade or Shastikovich’s Second Waltz
Anyone that tries to marginalize Beethoven or Bach or Compton is really an I’ll-educated social gadfly with no real joy intellectual basis
I think I’ll go crank up my stereo and drive around the Third Ward here in Houston and play the 9th good and loud
#16
Aah've come to just hate all music of late.
It's all white noise
without P Diddy an' da boys.
Johnny Cash don' scat,
and Bach don't groooove...
Brünnhilde never twerks,
that ass won't move!
Beet-fuckin'-hoven?!
A white name, you aks me.
Likely had feet cloven.
Not like... Padmalaxmi.
Okay! I'll settle for moolah,
and won't break your face.
It's called repaira-rations
for bein' the better race!
But he was born in Georgia and seems to be closely tied to Armenia....
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Sabre Dance by the Berliner Philharmoniker so you can watch the whole orchestra perform. Incredible.
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Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Khvorostovsky singing "Moscow Nights" at this outdoor summer evening concert in Red Square is magical. They were the best. The chemistry between them is obvious. I love this video, wish I could have been there... but Khvorostovsky passed away a few years ago and they're trying to cancel Netrebko and Gergiev as well. Too bad. Our loss.
#22
This is a better version of the Dima K and Anna Netrebko live outdoor concert singing Podmoskovskiye Vechera. They had a lot of fun with it. Yes the chemistry was great
#23
^ Opera at its best. Bravo Rantburgers all. We had class a few years back but can only be found in volumes of recorded performances. I grow nostalgic for the good old days. What they call white privilege these days.
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Opera at its best. Bravo Rantburgers all. We had class a few years back but can only be found in volumes of recorded performances. I grow nostalgic for the good old days. What they call white privilege these days.
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#30
The Annapolis Symphony in Maryland also purported to be acting out of altruism in cancelling violinist Vadim Repin “We don’t want to put [Repin] in an uncomfortable, even impossible position,” the press release explained. So “out of respect to Repin’s apolitical stance and concerns for the safety of himself and his family,” he would not be allowed to play the Shostakovich concerto with the orchestra..
#31
More Shostakovich - a montage of movie scenes set to his gorgeous Second Waltz (movies are "The Leopard," w Burt Lancaster and various versions of "Anna Karenina" with Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean and many others)
#32
The greatest victim of this canceling frenzy is the greatest conductor of our era, Valery Gergiev. Heather Mac Donald writes:
"Putin’s stance on LGBTQ education has particularly exercised music journalists and gay advocates. Queer Nation disrupted a concert Gergiev was conducting in Carnegie Hall in 2013 because Putin had signed a law that banned schools from distributing to minors “propaganda on nontraditional sexual relationships” (not so different from grassroots efforts in the U.S. to preserve a zone of childhood innocence regarding sexuality). “Gergiev, your silence is killing Russian gays!” protesters shouted. In response, Gergiev has insisted that he has never discriminated against anyone; no one has disputed that claim.
In 2016, Gergiev conducted the Mariinsky Orchestra from a Roman theater in Palmyra, Syria. Syrian forces, with Russian air support, had retaken the historic site, which ISIS had used to execute prisoners. Gergiev characterized the concert, featuring the music of Bach, Prokofiev, and the twentieth-century Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, as a protest against barbarism
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