this song was a good answer, to thoose who said we have to be afraid of the russians. thoose who said we have to go to war to protect ourselves against comunists because they are different from americans... it is so sad that this song still have a meaningful mesage to us, today! let us hope that one day we will be able to realy understand, there are no such thing as a winnable war!
@suntbelgae also, if theres one country that has made the most progress in global equality in the last century its the Russians. I my self am not russian, but know that with the soviet union, women finally had as much chances as men to go to university, during the war just as much right to carry the flag, and to have no mixed feelings towards other human beings based on race or sex. the world took example of that, cose lets face it, black kids went to school in russia long before the US allowed
Love the song, but in the end, Russian rhetoric was deadly serious, Reagan was right, and thank God we do not face an existential threat like we did back then,
@upadaria Reagan was right? How so, in changing the conviction of Lt. Calley from life to house arrest? In his "withdrawal with honor" from Vietnam? Or the reagan doctine where its more important that the people are not commies, even if that means supporting mass murdering dictators? Really?
Both sides where absolutly horrible. Reagan was not "right" no more than the russians. Thats the essense of the song: "There is no monopoly of common sense
the part that begins in 1:27 and ends in 2:00 is a segment of a song by another composer, right? a russian pianist, is it? could someone tell me who and which song is it?
You all open your mouths and out comes useless talk. It's a song that is sung from the point of view of a Westerner. The lyrics do not hint at who might be wrong or right or better or smarter or more noble. It has nothing to do with Christians or Muslims but somehow, the misfits who concoct these crazy notions in their heads, always seems to wind up on message boards such as this and they always seem to spout the same silly lies and phrases.
wow! I remember being a kid in the 1970s and feeling like I had no future b/c the the USSR was going to come over Alaska and wipe us out......I remember that fear as a kid.
@trupoed12 (надеюсь что вы понимаете по англиски,как я по русский)
You may be too young to remember how scared we all had reason to be at the time when this song was written. This song, as I understands it, is a correction to what you may call western propaganda at that time, picturing Russians as aggressive beasts (also fuelled by Russian rethorics like "we will bury you"). Sting says he don't subscribe to that, because he believes "The Russians Love their Children Too"...
I agree with JillB723 in a way... I believe two strong warriors met at the table in the 80's. Reagan on one side and Gorbachev on the other... they were both credits to their countries IMHO. And thus we entered the scary world we live in today.
Today you could easily substitute the word Americans for Russias and Obama/ Bush etc for the names of the Soviet leaders and this song would lose none of its meaning.
"Bolo" and "Boludo"are derogatory names for the Russians,but only in Cuba.The Russophobia is the unwarranted fear,the hatred and the despise towards the Russians.
@Essefen Maybe rather Chinese much more than Muslims... Christians are not judged according the behavior of few percent, but muslims are. Muslims themselves should take care of their business and put the things to the right order. And finally - don't forget who has sold all the weapons (US,EU,...) to them and who had teached them to create a nuclear bomb (England, France, US)! Muslim "question" is question of conscience of western civilisation. Please be aware of it.
@mcbure1 You'd be unpleasantly surprised at how a lot of non-Christians perceive Christians based on the extreme radicalism of the Bible-twisting few.
Marvellous song! What a shame that ideology which Sting sings about here has done so much damage to the human family last century and is continuing in the
if einstein did not think of it, someone else would have... just like now we have nuclear weapons, far more powerful and if USA did not bomb Japan, we would all be in hell by now. probably will be anyway thanks to Obama bin laden and other extremists ! Not taking any credit away from Einstein tho :)
Einstein didn't invent the A-bomb, he merely suggested to Truman that we create one before Hitler. There were so many great minds required - so many Noble Laurates. It was a combination of our greatest minds. Had Truman not taken heed of Einstein's wisdom, we would probably all be speaking German now, under the authority of the Third Reich. Like all other weapons, it is not the weapon that kills, but the user that manipulates it.
@jayman448, Einstein did NOT create the atomic bomb, he deciphered energy. Governments created the A-Bomb, regardless, without the A-Bomb, we would be in WWIII already. It is the A-Bomb that stops us from going into another WW.
@dorianstube well i understand your side of it, but it would be so much better if they were never invented. sure they stopped ww2 but now every country has one (exageration) and if there is a deranged taliban with one, then we are all screwed. i mean look at what korea just did, what if it were atomic?
@dorianstube We westerners have one idiotic idea to think that our shitty "civilization" and things that come under that definition represents the whole world (planet). Neither the WWI nor WWII were World wars but westerners wars (mostly European). African nations, most of the Asian nations and none of the South American nations did not have direct or any engagements in those wars. Most of them wouldn't even have such dumb idea to start something similar.
Last i checked, we ended WWII by nuking the Japanese after they bombed Pearl Harbor.
So the Japanese did not only entertain the thought, but executed it, and I would consider that a very "similar" and "dumb" idea. Again, "thank god for the bomb".
But I do agree, that people here tend to think that the US is the world, when it's not.
@drianstube Yes you are right about Japan but I said most of the Asian nations and Japan is just one of smaller Asian nations (concerning territory and population). And it was "modernized" and "westernized" Japan that adopted colonialist ideas from the west. Saying "thank god for the bomb" is also very idiotic thing to say. Trust me, I grew up in the war that your bomb couldn't stop as it couldn't stop any other war. In the end, that's not what bombs are made for. Greetings from Bosnia!
@JamezJCB well, if you want to get technical, yes, the Germans had surrendered, but Japan was still going, so technically, the war was not over, therefore, it was the nuke, that completely ended the war.
@JamezJCB Australians were extremely aware that WW11 in the Pacific was still on after D-Day! The northern hemisphere may have had some relief, but the southern hemisphere was still totally involved, and Australia was at risk of being invaded.. and that was why they called it a world war. We had to pull our troops out of Europe to protect our own shores. I don't hold with the bombing of Nagasaki or Hiroshima in any way, but yes, it stopped the war.
Interesting that you should think that I am naive, given that I lived there, studied the history of the USSR and Russia to degree level and am married to a citizen of the USSR who wanted to leave the country. The point so far is that I know well the faults of Soviet Russia and they were considerable and I would not personally want to live under such a regime. That said, few people in the West realise that the vast majority of Russians cared less about freedom and more about daily survival. TBC
I was always thankful for never living in any of the countries that one day might be responsible for nuclear war. Even though if it occured, my people would perish as well, I would know that my government isn't the one that is responsible for it. Much easier to have a truelly free and careless life (in those terms anyway) not belonging to the actors.
yeah right jill, ole gorby had hundreds of gulags operating until the the day he dissolved the ussr..the united states has made many bad moves, vietnam, watergate, iran contra, etc, but we do not have a police state like the soviets under splotch-top.......how can you be so naive? people were shot trying to leave!!!!!!
even tho that nukes are weapons of mass destruction they play a key role in keeping peace between neuclear powers. the threat of mutual anihhilation. what that is say the russians launched all their nukes at america. americas nukes would fire back at the russians and destroy russia, but america would also be destroyed. its that fear that so many people will die that keeps people from using them and keeps a sort of peace between nuclear powers
@agricolae101 Yep, and it's that philosophy, that we all bought hook line and sinker, that kept us in the cold war for decades. Schoolyard politics on the grandest scale. We thinking folks should be embarrassed. Just imagine what we could have accomplished with those wasted resources, both human and material, if we didn't subscribe to that paranoid, contrived reality.
i came across this song when i was doing some history homework on propaganda that was against communism and it was on a website and it is really awesome
@JillB723 : Ok who? Putin? Gorby? Gorbachev tried but failed, because he tried reviving a dead dog, communism. No matter what you do, you just can't push a rope.
Reagan just delivered speeches. So so easy to do when you are preaching to the converted. Gorbachev changed his country and that took more guts than anyone I have ever witnessed in the western world, with the possible exception of Churchill. Reagan is just another cold war president. Gorbachev ended the cold war. Bless him.
@JillB723 : Oh come on. Apparently you never lived in the USA before Reagan. It was more than the cold war thing for us, after Jimmy Carter and his inflation, malaise, etc. Reagan woke this country up, and after he re-invigorated us, we had many years of growth. Maybe to you, Reagan was nothing but speeches. By that standard, so is the windbag wannabe, Obama, who we suffer through EVERY DAMNED DAY on the TV. Reagan is beloved here by regular Americans, not the left wingnuts of course.
No, you're right, I did not live in the US before Reagan. But I don't have your confidence in him either. With respect, Americans view the world in terms of American interests, which are very narrow. I know for a fact that Americans have never seen questions asked of Reagan that he couldn't answer or those prompted by Nancy. It was sad to see, genuinely. He could not even run a bath, bless him. The Cold War was not won by Reagan but overturned by Gorbachev.
No disrespect, but the end of the cold war was due to Gorbachev. I hope one day he will get the recognition he deserves as the most inspired leader of the 20th century.
No disrespect ? Tell you this Gorby > Caved , Like a Frenchman who thinks the Tri-Color is all white . Had no choice . Their economy was collapsing, the only reason they didn't have bread riots> There WAS NO BREAD . Communism is a failed system . You can look it up . And in case it escaped your attention . Sting fingers Kruchev .I bet more than 80% of those viewing this vid and your post haven't the first "Political Sense" about what you mean , Much less common sense
@gbigfoot93 - Don't know what this has to do with Sting's song, but this posting must be a stir. No-one would think that Stalin is the 20th Century's best leader! Quite the opposite and a rival for Hitler as the most noted monster of the period. There: you do the response you were looking for!
@JillB723 If you think that act stemming from the need is an act which deserves admiration, than Gorbatchev deserves it. You know, he had to do all the things he had actually done. There was no other choice. Only war with uncertain ending...
Uhhh, why are people arguing politics? The song is so beautiful, so melancholy, a song of love for our children despite the loom of war which no one wants.
This song reminds me the "Before wall came down" and when, while I was a child and while we were children, we were always frightened watching the news that some new crisis could intercome between USA and URSS. Woul love to share this feeling with the youngest ones, who did not experience this:never ,NEVER FORGET! Wars and dictatorships are our most DReadful ENEMIES!!!
@josef331 Einestein's quote is more about the ultimate demise and the "history repeats itself" of human life. He was right about it, but I believe 3rd WW will be faught w/ missiles, lasers and informatio technology. :D
Either way, we are bound to go down and another civilization will rise. Millions of civ. parished and many are forgotten. History repeats itself.
@josef331 Like Einstein once said: "I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
this song made me pretty much cry after the atomic bomb came to humans have only been living in the darkness of thier fear wich is the A-bomb but what can we do ?
before with russia it was to prove their might and establish themselves as the next world power
so they went head to head in a game of who will blink first against the US and lucky we both blinked
but in the middle east syria and Iran aren't only planning on attacking the US there are many people and it isnt to prove might it is a holy war and those are a lot harder to stop
i mean if he had not gone through the horrible watergate fiasco (which by the way he didn't need what so ever he would have swept the election) he would have been held in high esteem as one of the best presidents in history, but because he lied to the american public he falls among the failures
its sad and you are very right thanks very much to him nuclear holocaust is now pritty much impossible
I only fear for israel and constant syrian threats
Not very subtle, but profound nonetheless. This really sums up the atmosphere of the Cold War. I like the image of the clock ticking minutes to midnight and the nuclear snow.
A clasic thank you to the poster
demacaol 4 weeks ago
What a song.
Turok377 1 month ago
@Turok377 indeed my friend.To bad our acrual liders are to ignorants or dumb to never heard it
demacaol 4 weeks ago
I always think of this song as the ultimate tribute to Useful Idiocy.
DadsKids 1 month ago
this song was a good answer, to thoose who said we have to be afraid of the russians. thoose who said we have to go to war to protect ourselves against comunists because they are different from americans... it is so sad that this song still have a meaningful mesage to us, today! let us hope that one day we will be able to realy understand, there are no such thing as a winnable war!
TheSivingvild 1 month ago
how did i get here from Kalinka Malinka?
suntbelgae 2 months ago
@suntbelgae also, if theres one country that has made the most progress in global equality in the last century its the Russians. I my self am not russian, but know that with the soviet union, women finally had as much chances as men to go to university, during the war just as much right to carry the flag, and to have no mixed feelings towards other human beings based on race or sex. the world took example of that, cose lets face it, black kids went to school in russia long before the US allowed
suntbelgae 2 months ago
Why are you raging?:) I think this song is a beautiful example of trying to calm the attitudes at the time. It was very appropriate at the time.
Darkshines1990 2 months ago
This song is wrong on so many levels. Terrible.
nephilimcrt 2 months ago
videos like that give soviet people bad names
Sagit1998 2 months ago
@Sagit1998 He sings about that everybody is human and the russians to, so they can't be so bad as american propaganda sais.
externdead 2 months ago
@Sagit1998 ...There haven't been any Soviet people since 1989...
nephilimcrt 2 months ago
Saw this on Peep Show.
drewskione 3 months ago
What's with the long comments? Can't we just enjoy Sting?
kckinsmcg 3 months ago
Love the song, but in the end, Russian rhetoric was deadly serious, Reagan was right, and thank God we do not face an existential threat like we did back then,
upadaria 4 months ago
@upadaria Reagan was right? How so, in changing the conviction of Lt. Calley from life to house arrest? In his "withdrawal with honor" from Vietnam? Or the reagan doctine where its more important that the people are not commies, even if that means supporting mass murdering dictators? Really?
Both sides where absolutly horrible. Reagan was not "right" no more than the russians. Thats the essense of the song: "There is no monopoly of common sense
On either side of the political fence "
:-)
RuerlKhan 3 months ago
@upadaria What? It may not be the russians but now other countries have the bomb. That threat never goes away.
Nelclaud21 3 months ago
No matter how many times I hear this I still love it
Getlostfree 5 months ago in playlist Hmmm
Yes,it's a theme from the Lieutenant Kijé Suite by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev
nexus6162 5 months ago
the part that begins in 1:27 and ends in 2:00 is a segment of a song by another composer, right? a russian pianist, is it? could someone tell me who and which song is it?
Rafaperches 5 months ago
oh yes we fucking turks love our children;)
nexus6162 5 months ago
oh yes we fucking turks love our children;)
nexus6162 5 months ago
You all open your mouths and out comes useless talk. It's a song that is sung from the point of view of a Westerner. The lyrics do not hint at who might be wrong or right or better or smarter or more noble. It has nothing to do with Christians or Muslims but somehow, the misfits who concoct these crazy notions in their heads, always seems to wind up on message boards such as this and they always seem to spout the same silly lies and phrases.
ColumbiaPerna 5 months ago
I think of Fallout 3 when I listen to this song.
Zain844 7 months ago
wow! I remember being a kid in the 1970s and feeling like I had no future b/c the the USSR was going to come over Alaska and wipe us out......I remember that fear as a kid.
good2goskee 7 months ago
опять что-то русофобское
trupoed12 8 months ago
@trupoed12 (надеюсь что вы понимаете по англиски,как я по русский)
You may be too young to remember how scared we all had reason to be at the time when this song was written. This song, as I understands it, is a correction to what you may call western propaganda at that time, picturing Russians as aggressive beasts (also fuelled by Russian rethorics like "we will bury you"). Sting says he don't subscribe to that, because he believes "The Russians Love their Children Too"...
asheim1202 7 months ago
I hope the Arabs love their children too.
I would love for a remake of the song with them in mind
Kruezoraxe 8 months ago
I agree with JillB723 in a way... I believe two strong warriors met at the table in the 80's. Reagan on one side and Gorbachev on the other... they were both credits to their countries IMHO. And thus we entered the scary world we live in today.
SgtSpline 9 months ago
Today you could easily substitute the word Americans for Russias and Obama/ Bush etc for the names of the Soviet leaders and this song would lose none of its meaning.
mirabilo 9 months ago
The funny thing is this song uses the theme from Lieutenant Kijé Suite by Sergei Prokofiev, a Russian composer.
therapsids 9 months ago
I hope the rushians love their children to
hahalame2825 10 months ago
"Bolo" and "Boludo"are derogatory names for the Russians,but only in Cuba.The Russophobia is the unwarranted fear,the hatred and the despise towards the Russians.
123456RaulMorales 10 months ago
Today it should be "I hope the Muslims love their children too."
But going by the rape and abuse of little girls in muslim countries, probably not.
Essefen 10 months ago
@Essefen Maybe rather Chinese much more than Muslims... Christians are not judged according the behavior of few percent, but muslims are. Muslims themselves should take care of their business and put the things to the right order. And finally - don't forget who has sold all the weapons (US,EU,...) to them and who had teached them to create a nuclear bomb (England, France, US)! Muslim "question" is question of conscience of western civilisation. Please be aware of it.
mcbure1 9 months ago
@mcbure1 You'd be unpleasantly surprised at how a lot of non-Christians perceive Christians based on the extreme radicalism of the Bible-twisting few.
bellalunarena 8 months ago
i klicked on i like, but truth is, i hate such songs when they become true, anyway, thank you sting, your the pride of the 80's
exabyterra1 10 months ago
@exabyterra1 see you in another life bro :(
exabyterra1 10 months ago
Marvellous song! What a shame that ideology which Sting sings about here has done so much damage to the human family last century and is continuing in the
present one. Haven't we learned anything?
paulkate72 1 year ago
@JillB723 gorbachev don't deserve any more recognition than any other leader. The US and the soviets worked together to solve it.
steiniza 1 year ago
if einstein did not think of it, someone else would have... just like now we have nuclear weapons, far more powerful and if USA did not bomb Japan, we would all be in hell by now. probably will be anyway thanks to Obama bin laden and other extremists ! Not taking any credit away from Einstein tho :)
wildpanthera 1 year ago
Einstein didn't invent the A-bomb, he merely suggested to Truman that we create one before Hitler. There were so many great minds required - so many Noble Laurates. It was a combination of our greatest minds. Had Truman not taken heed of Einstein's wisdom, we would probably all be speaking German now, under the authority of the Third Reich. Like all other weapons, it is not the weapon that kills, but the user that manipulates it.
MrChlorinated 1 year ago
Super song sung by a super singer! Sting doesn't seem to be making a political statement here, rather he's arguing for commensense. Don't we need it!
paulkate72 1 year ago
@TheKaneimortal A great Idea that doesn't work!!! That's like being the smartest retard.
roger6060 1 year ago
Do Geordies love their children too? Just ask Biffa Bacon :)
feline1973 1 year ago
I wonder how many people in Russia got caught listening to this song.
kasteman1 1 year ago
without a doubt, einstein was one of the greatest minds ever, a great man, but damn him a thousnad times for the creation of the atomic bomb.
jayman448 1 year ago
@jayman448, Einstein did NOT create the atomic bomb, he deciphered energy. Governments created the A-Bomb, regardless, without the A-Bomb, we would be in WWIII already. It is the A-Bomb that stops us from going into another WW.
Like Ozzy Osborne says, "Thank God for the Bomb".
dorianstube 1 year ago 2
@dorianstube well i understand your side of it, but it would be so much better if they were never invented. sure they stopped ww2 but now every country has one (exageration) and if there is a deranged taliban with one, then we are all screwed. i mean look at what korea just did, what if it were atomic?
jayman448 1 year ago
@dorianstube We westerners have one idiotic idea to think that our shitty "civilization" and things that come under that definition represents the whole world (planet). Neither the WWI nor WWII were World wars but westerners wars (mostly European). African nations, most of the Asian nations and none of the South American nations did not have direct or any engagements in those wars. Most of them wouldn't even have such dumb idea to start something similar.
JuraBL 1 year ago
@JuraBL
Last i checked, we ended WWII by nuking the Japanese after they bombed Pearl Harbor.
So the Japanese did not only entertain the thought, but executed it, and I would consider that a very "similar" and "dumb" idea. Again, "thank god for the bomb".
But I do agree, that people here tend to think that the US is the world, when it's not.
dorianstube 1 year ago
@drianstube Yes you are right about Japan but I said most of the Asian nations and Japan is just one of smaller Asian nations (concerning territory and population). And it was "modernized" and "westernized" Japan that adopted colonialist ideas from the west. Saying "thank god for the bomb" is also very idiotic thing to say. Trust me, I grew up in the war that your bomb couldn't stop as it couldn't stop any other war. In the end, that's not what bombs are made for. Greetings from Bosnia!
JuraBL 1 year ago
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JamezJCB 11 months ago
@JamezJCB well, if you want to get technical, yes, the Germans had surrendered, but Japan was still going, so technically, the war was not over, therefore, it was the nuke, that completely ended the war.
dorianstube 11 months ago
@JamezJCB Australians were extremely aware that WW11 in the Pacific was still on after D-Day! The northern hemisphere may have had some relief, but the southern hemisphere was still totally involved, and Australia was at risk of being invaded.. and that was why they called it a world war. We had to pull our troops out of Europe to protect our own shores. I don't hold with the bombing of Nagasaki or Hiroshima in any way, but yes, it stopped the war.
valburge 11 months ago
@JamezJCB hey retard "D-day' is Deployment day / the day and operation starts there was hundreds of D-days
H8UsClan 11 months ago
Interesting that you should think that I am naive, given that I lived there, studied the history of the USSR and Russia to degree level and am married to a citizen of the USSR who wanted to leave the country. The point so far is that I know well the faults of Soviet Russia and they were considerable and I would not personally want to live under such a regime. That said, few people in the West realise that the vast majority of Russians cared less about freedom and more about daily survival. TBC
JillB723 1 year ago
amazing clip and song
WILLEM679 1 year ago
הפחד הפעם הוא מהאירניים
ALONKE6 1 year ago
הפחד הפעם הוא מהאירניים
ALONKE6 1 year ago
@TopclassxAR no one knows... no one knows... and that makes the future scary !!
josef331 1 year ago
I feel we are back here behind another fence. All you have to do is change the words....
Backngoth 1 year ago
I was always thankful for never living in any of the countries that one day might be responsible for nuclear war. Even though if it occured, my people would perish as well, I would know that my government isn't the one that is responsible for it. Much easier to have a truelly free and careless life (in those terms anyway) not belonging to the actors.
milicoha 1 year ago
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
kanjizaibosatsugyo 1 year ago
Nuclear war, coming soon to the Middle East. Then perhaps the rest of the world.
Dragonrider3458 1 year ago
Al Queda, we will bury you!
Salien1999 1 year ago
Is that Leo ?
derenoz 1 year ago
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hmm....
nowadays, he should change the title into "Israels"
weirdheriawan 1 year ago
yeah right jill, ole gorby had hundreds of gulags operating until the the day he dissolved the ussr..the united states has made many bad moves, vietnam, watergate, iran contra, etc, but we do not have a police state like the soviets under splotch-top.......how can you be so naive? people were shot trying to leave!!!!!!
angryscowl 1 year ago
We Will Bury You!
joe9320 1 year ago
even tho that nukes are weapons of mass destruction they play a key role in keeping peace between neuclear powers. the threat of mutual anihhilation. what that is say the russians launched all their nukes at america. americas nukes would fire back at the russians and destroy russia, but america would also be destroyed. its that fear that so many people will die that keeps people from using them and keeps a sort of peace between nuclear powers
derfmun 1 year ago
@derfmun The policy you describe was/is called 'MAD'
Mutually Assured Destruction - and it's the reason we haven't had any large scale conflicts...quite right!
agricolae101 1 year ago
@agricolae101 Yep, and it's that philosophy, that we all bought hook line and sinker, that kept us in the cold war for decades. Schoolyard politics on the grandest scale. We thinking folks should be embarrassed. Just imagine what we could have accomplished with those wasted resources, both human and material, if we didn't subscribe to that paranoid, contrived reality.
gnugen 1 year ago
all wars r fought with ignorance...
harmageden 1 year ago
i came across this song when i was doing some history homework on propaganda that was against communism and it was on a website and it is really awesome
bigalmd09 1 year ago
I love metal and hard rock but i love this song
sebylikesmetal 1 year ago
Gorbachev may have played a key part in the end of the cold war but there is no proof to say this song did not help
rjh303 2 years ago
this is a very sweet and great video.
then is from 1996 so u hope then never will be forget.
themythriller 2 years ago
But didn't Reagan protect us after all?
In the end the Wall came down.
a winnable war is the one your foe will not fight out of fear. Foe that otherwise would want nothing else but to dominate you.
ciaBLUEBIRD 2 years ago
@ciaBLUEBIRD : God Bless Ronald Reagan. We for sure need another like him.
soco13466 2 years ago
Please no.
JillB723 2 years ago
@JillB723 : Ok who? Putin? Gorby? Gorbachev tried but failed, because he tried reviving a dead dog, communism. No matter what you do, you just can't push a rope.
soco13466 2 years ago
Reagan just delivered speeches. So so easy to do when you are preaching to the converted. Gorbachev changed his country and that took more guts than anyone I have ever witnessed in the western world, with the possible exception of Churchill. Reagan is just another cold war president. Gorbachev ended the cold war. Bless him.
JillB723 2 years ago
@JillB723 : Oh come on. Apparently you never lived in the USA before Reagan. It was more than the cold war thing for us, after Jimmy Carter and his inflation, malaise, etc. Reagan woke this country up, and after he re-invigorated us, we had many years of growth. Maybe to you, Reagan was nothing but speeches. By that standard, so is the windbag wannabe, Obama, who we suffer through EVERY DAMNED DAY on the TV. Reagan is beloved here by regular Americans, not the left wingnuts of course.
soco13466 2 years ago
No, you're right, I did not live in the US before Reagan. But I don't have your confidence in him either. With respect, Americans view the world in terms of American interests, which are very narrow. I know for a fact that Americans have never seen questions asked of Reagan that he couldn't answer or those prompted by Nancy. It was sad to see, genuinely. He could not even run a bath, bless him. The Cold War was not won by Reagan but overturned by Gorbachev.
JillB723 2 years ago 2
@JillB723 Oh and BTW, regarding communism: You can't polish a turd.
soco13466 2 years ago
Actually, that is probably the most intelligent remark I have heard yet from a republican. Well done!! The Right would be proud of you!!
JillB723 2 years ago
@soco13466
YES YOU CAN THEY PROVED AT MYTH BASTERS :p
DarkWOLFMAN 1 year ago
No disrespect, but the end of the cold war was due to Gorbachev. I hope one day he will get the recognition he deserves as the most inspired leader of the 20th century.
JillB723 2 years ago 25
@JillB723
No disrespect ? Tell you this Gorby > Caved , Like a Frenchman who thinks the Tri-Color is all white . Had no choice . Their economy was collapsing, the only reason they didn't have bread riots> There WAS NO BREAD . Communism is a failed system . You can look it up . And in case it escaped your attention . Sting fingers Kruchev .I bet more than 80% of those viewing this vid and your post haven't the first "Political Sense" about what you mean , Much less common sense
Regards
ShotgunTheMan 1 year ago
@JillB723 Stalin is the best leader of 20th century!!!
gbigfoot93 1 year ago
@gbigfoot93 - Don't know what this has to do with Sting's song, but this posting must be a stir. No-one would think that Stalin is the 20th Century's best leader! Quite the opposite and a rival for Hitler as the most noted monster of the period. There: you do the response you were looking for!
paulkate72 1 year ago
@JillB723 If you think that act stemming from the need is an act which deserves admiration, than Gorbatchev deserves it. You know, he had to do all the things he had actually done. There was no other choice. Only war with uncertain ending...
mcbure1 9 months ago
Because politics is the main focus on this. Hence the - Oppenheimer, Reagan, Kruchev thing.
Then again, no matter what anyone does, people will always find a way to bitch or be stupid. Or both.
skii6868 2 years ago
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skii6868 2 years ago
Uhhh, why are people arguing politics? The song is so beautiful, so melancholy, a song of love for our children despite the loom of war which no one wants.
fallguyne 2 years ago 4
from 1:26 to 2:00 we have to play that in music.....LOL
and did u realise the beat of the music goes with the seconds...lol
Mameychi 2 years ago
This song reminds me the "Before wall came down" and when, while I was a child and while we were children, we were always frightened watching the news that some new crisis could intercome between USA and URSS. Woul love to share this feeling with the youngest ones, who did not experience this:never ,NEVER FORGET! Wars and dictatorships are our most DReadful ENEMIES!!!
tonyventisettantadue 2 years ago
like Einestein once said ''World War Three will be fought with weapons of mass destructin.World War Four will be fought with sticks and stones.''
josef331 2 years ago 39
@josef331 Einestein's quote is more about the ultimate demise and the "history repeats itself" of human life. He was right about it, but I believe 3rd WW will be faught w/ missiles, lasers and informatio technology. :D
Either way, we are bound to go down and another civilization will rise. Millions of civ. parished and many are forgotten. History repeats itself.
mindsoulbody 1 year ago
@mindsoulbody yupp
josef331 1 year ago
@josef331 Sticks and stones may break my bones, but weapons of mass destruction would overkill me! O_o
Salien1999 1 year ago
@josef331
Wrong... Einstein said: " I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones"
Goon2006 1 year ago
@josef331 I think he said Five will be Sticks and Stones.
AngryVideoGameKidd2 1 year ago
@josef331 Like Einstein once said: "I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
wesside0yes 11 months ago
@josef331 He said he was not sure with which weapens world war 3 would be fought but world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
icecube45 8 months ago
@josef331 actually he said "I know not the weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
DarleneDickerson 5 months ago
this song made me pretty much cry after the atomic bomb came to humans have only been living in the darkness of thier fear wich is the A-bomb but what can we do ?
josef331 2 years ago
Peace...begins with each of us
1higherground 2 years ago 2
the situation is a lot different though
before with russia it was to prove their might and establish themselves as the next world power
so they went head to head in a game of who will blink first against the US and lucky we both blinked
but in the middle east syria and Iran aren't only planning on attacking the US there are many people and it isnt to prove might it is a holy war and those are a lot harder to stop
The situation is so difficult for israel
lxsalama 2 years ago
........sheeple really
yeah the cold war is basically over
no country could commit mass nuclear holocaust in todays day and age
America has the capability but its impossible because of the safety measures
as for tension between Russia and America its no where near were it was thanks to Nixon same goes for our relations with China
are u an idiont......
lxsalama 2 years ago
hurray for detente
I feel bad for Nixon
i mean if he had not gone through the horrible watergate fiasco (which by the way he didn't need what so ever he would have swept the election) he would have been held in high esteem as one of the best presidents in history, but because he lied to the american public he falls among the failures
its sad and you are very right thanks very much to him nuclear holocaust is now pritty much impossible
I only fear for israel and constant syrian threats
lxsalama 2 years ago
I'm not troubled by the Iranians.
The Nashis, the "Putinjugend" in Russia, like
to wave their junk around and brag how big and bad the Russian Bear is.
Everyone saw what happened in Georgia/Ossetia.
kittypie070 2 years ago
Could have used some A-bomb blasts in the vid, though
carcano38 2 years ago
"I hope the Iranians don't make a nuclear bomb too."
grobo11 2 years ago
This is a great song.
Hopefully people accually think about
the lyrics before judging etc.
Logicalize 2 years ago 5
I hope the Koreans...love their children toooo!!
paulapraline 2 years ago
Not very subtle, but profound nonetheless. This really sums up the atmosphere of the Cold War. I like the image of the clock ticking minutes to midnight and the nuclear snow.
dumblond4 2 years ago 3
i love this song my ap teacher played this in class and i freaking love it!!!
UnforgedAndrew 2 years ago 2