this song was never made in the 20th century. It was made far back when the czar was far from being overthrown. It was a traditional song sung long before is original publication in 1866, and has nothing to do with communism, hearing people say that is insulting because their ignorance shines right through when they say that.
Spiciu, please, block these people from commenting.
@4ingP ok i spoke out a little wrong but i mean this song was very popular in sovjet russia, althought the song was written long time before in tsarist russia. Many people in here are having a political argument, and i think this is a good song and it has nothing with communism to do :)
I do not believe I am Russian, But this song gives me great respect for Life, Strength, and Pride. The will to fight. The will to be a peaceful man. The will to understand what Trials one must face in order to attain Greatness.
Stalin wrote about 333 books, most of them scientific research and fairly hard to constradict. He also wrote tthe only Constution ever to guarantee a right to work (SSSR 1936). How about your Kaïsar = Kaïô-Sarkon = I-calcinate-the-flesh ?
@garricus1 The Bolsheviks had great ideas, but their leadership ruined it pretty quickly. Its pretty hard to choose between Stalin and Czar Nicholas to be honest.
Thanks for subscribing to THE FREE CHANNEL, I have always loved the Volga Boatmen, and had not heard it with Paul Robeson before :0) That's a classic :0)
a view into the soul of Russia! There feels, to me, something here far vaster and deeper than of just seeing a line of poor people pulling a boat. The melody sounds to me like of old Orthodox church bells Tolling.
I shall point out that the picture was rather a product of imagination of an artist with social agenda in his mind. Real Russian boatmen didn't look like tramps. It was tough but reasonably well paid job for men in great shape very much like French canoers in time of fir trade in Canada. That is more like sea shanties - empowering.
@yuzuki010 I didn't mean I want it in English... It was a joke about youtube comments. And no, Ol Man River, even sung by the same performer, would not be an English translation.
Being a young person, I don't know anyone my age who appreciates this kind of music. It makes me incredibly disappointed with our generation, knowing that we care nothing of the culture of our past.
Amazing, stunning! Bravo, Mr. Robeson!! I really love his performance, especially how he sang some parts in Russian, it came out so natural! I think this song has a bit in common with "Ol' Man River", also brilliantly sung by Robeson.
There is a song about the Mississippi boatmen, called "Pushboat", originating from in hard times before steamboats. It is sang by the Byrds' frontman Roger McGuinn. It can be found here: ibiblio 'dot' org 'slash' jimmy 'slash' folkden-wp
The "Ol' Man River" by Paul Robeson was made up in 1936 for the musical "Showboat".
The biggest difference in lyrics between Russian and American boatmen I noticed was that the Americans even in hardship were thinking about them girls not work :)
Блин, меня всегда веселят англоязычные комменты, они типа все знают и понимают, но у них перед глазами пелена предвзятости (стереотипов). Это то, от чего мы в России избавились, в основном. А они застряли в этом.
The Americans did the same boatmen jobs on the Mississippi river at about the same times. I wonder if there are any songs from that time and about that? I guess not, otherwise Paul Roberson would sing it...
A MAN WITH A VOICE WHICH DEPICTS THE WARMTH OF LOVE TO A WORLD FULL OF HATE AND MIX FEELINGS THAT ARE SO MIX UP,THAT IT HAS NO TIME TO TAKE NOTE OF THE TREASURE WITH-IN THE SOUL THAT PRODUCE THE SOUNDS TO HEAL AND REMOVE THE POISON THAT IS SLOWLY DESTROYING IT,YET WE HAVE THE FORMULA TO DO THIS .BY PULLING TOGETHER ,IT MAKES US STRONGER MORE TOLERANT, MORE LOVING, MORE AMBER...
I still remember how my father explained this song to me when I was seven and I was playing it on the piano. It was quite graphic (I'm American, but he had taken enough Soviet Studies in the day to know just what this song was about).
@fearlessfred14 Of what relevance are Soviet Studies to this song? It was written in Tsarist Russia and reflected conditions of that time. The USSR did what few other civilizations can claim - it transformed an 18th century monarchy into a 20th century superpower with food and medicine for all its people, and it did this not only in the absence of all foreign aid, but in the face of two major imperialist invasions, first from the USA, British Commonwealth, France, Japan etc, and then Nazis.
@KrzychAdam1 When American, British, French, Japanese, Canadian and Australian soldiers are occupying your country en masse and thwarting your attempts to industrialize by shooting your people dead for mere political affiliations, you don't have much choice.
@TithonusSyndrome Yeah, right. Starving millions of Ukrainian and Russian peasants in the Thirties, establishing Gulag system with dozens if not hundreds of labor camps in which people died of hard work conditions and malnutrition, cyclical purges, aggression towards neighboring countries how is related to civil war and intervention of foreign powers before 1920?
@KrzychAdam1 Typically, nations attempting to industrialize upwards from the 18th century are entitled to lots of Western aid... so long as they worship the right religion and have the right political system. Left to their own modest means, part of which involves routine periods of famine related to natural cycles of agricultural decline that we take for granted due to modern petrochemical agriculture, mass hand labor is the only option - as is "aggression" towards the proxies of western powers.
@Bogermanproductions You tell me what your genius plan is for rapidly industrializing a country subject to routine periods of natural famine. I don't see you McCarthyist redbaiting lunatics ever giving the US government hell for their response to the dust storms of the 1920s and 1930s, nor the British administration in India the same criticism for the famines in 20th century India - because they belong to your tribe and are above criticism, naturally.
@TithonusSyndrome First of all, I'm not a 'McCarthyist redbaiting lunatic', I'm a socialist myself (as in: more equality but still more pay for jobs like neurosurgeons etc, not the pro-slacker kind) and I'm not (immediately) averse to communism (and I don't call things communist unless they truly are).
Secondly, your plan of industrialising a country like that is killing tons of officers and religious folk and slave labour? I'm glad you're just some lowlife and not a ruler..
@Bogermanproductions Whoop de fuck, an unsolicited litany of whatever you self-identify as. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
This old canard about religious purges aside - one wonders why Stalin received such a warm and effusively praising Orthodox Church funeral courtesy of Patriarch Alexiy II when Lenin didn't - I notice you still haven't elaborated on any details of what your rapid industrial-agrarian scheme would be. As an engineer, I have some ideas - but evidently I'm a "lowlife".
@Bogermanproductions When all you said was a bunch of overly defensive self-asserted identity titles, what exactly have you given me that requires responding? If you need to announce your identity to the world for reasons of personal reassurance, fine, but I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
Anyone can say that their plans would be better; few can actually put their money where their mouth is. Let's see if you can, cretin.
Well, in communist society you don't need to pay more to somebody because there would be no need for it and everybody would be equal. But people are greedy bastards.
@S0VIETS0LDIER All Lenin did was change the shackles. "once slaves Lenin set us free." Ya, free to do Lenin/Stalin's bidding. 70 years wasted stifling dissent, productivity, innovation, and crushing the spirit of the people chasing the ridiculous dream of a socialist state. Economic and environmental dead zones, pograms, work camps, gulags and land use disasters. How many generations will it take for Mother Russia to recover from 70 years of disasterous leadership?
@Algonac9 So you really believed all the McCarthy propaganda bullshit? Paul Robeson was blacklisted by people like you for being a communist, he loved Lenin, and adored the soviet system.... that was all they needed to have him silenced and never play in another major theater, ever again. yeah communism has only seen the greatest of achievements in both social and economic growth, and sure stalin was harsh, but had it not been for him the USSR would have lost to the Nazis.
@S0VIETS0LDIER "McCarthy propaganda bullshit" LOL Obviously your understanding of history has been poisoned by your blind allegiance to a bankrupt political system. "yeah communism has only seen the greatest of achievements in both social and economic growth" Again LOL "achievements" That would be the shortest book in the world. Both the system and the leadership have been righfully relegated to the ash-heap of history. Failures. "sure stalin was harsh" Biggest laugh yet.
@Algonac9 the soviet economic system was far ahead of america's economic system up until the 1980's when everything started going down hill. and Vladimir I. Lenin during his rule of the soviet union experimented with many different forms of marxism in the 1920s and had it to where everyone was truly equal, women where going to college and where even getting jobs in the government.
@marine5289 Read my responce to SOVIETSOLDIER above. An untouchable dictator. Show trials, purges, secret police, gulags, ethnic relocations, land use disasters these are all FACTS that killed millions of people. After Sputnik and YuriG the long slow collapse. There was never a possibility of the Soviet state sustaining itself. It took 70 yrs for this bad idea to run the country down to the sad state that it is trying to recover from. Pathetically, selfishly wasting Russian lives and resources.
@UkieOli LOL dream on. He was a Russian who may have lived in Ukraine just like all the other Russian writers and artists that lived in Kiev, the first Russian city. I come from an old Russian bloodline that of course goes back to Kiev and all the holy churches there, am I too now Ukranian? Eat ur ravioli quietly lest you embarrass yourselves anymore.
Stop salivating over your long bloodline back to Rus'. Kievan Rus' and any Russia are NOT the same thing. Any resemblance between Russian families, Polish families or Ukrainian families living in Kiev is simply a reflection on the fact that it was a cosmopolitan city... located in UKRAINE. Try not to choke on the froth coming out of your mouth. What's your 'long bloodline'? I doubt you're even Russian, just a Russophile.
As idiotic as sphaeramundi is, Repin was Russian. "His parents were Russian military settlers", according to Wikipedia (your own source). Ukraine has many brilliant authors, painters, philosophers, and revolutionaries that it can claim, but Repin just isn't one of them. Sorry.
Ilja Repin is such a great artist....For those who spend there life on stupid politics and don't take the time to listen to this great song,Ilja Repin is the artist of this picture.He probaly did more than all you political-incorrect faggots did together
@vttv01 In Russian: Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз! Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз! Разовьём мы берёзу, Разовьём мы кудряву! Ай-да, да ай-да, Aй-да, да ай-да, Разовьём мы кудряву. Мы по бережку идём, Песню солнышку поём. Ай-да, да ай-да, Aй-да, да ай-да, Песню солнышку поём. Эй, эй, тяни канат сильней! Песню солнышку поём. Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз!
@pilotivanovich I think, if you consider it in the context of Stalingrad, and repelling the Nazis, it becomes very melancholic. It represents both the tenacity of the Red Army, and the grim fatalism of the enormous losses they sustained for victory.
This song is extremely moving ... My grandfather sang the whole, perfectly, and it always inspired me a lot of respect and affection for Russian people, too much suffering, but of unparalleled musical sensibilities in the circumstances of the heaviest ... My compliments for the greatness of this interpretation video! Enabled me to return to my childhood and feel part of this people for a period of time, and without even thinking, there is a link on me when I hear these tunes ...
Most children today and americans should have to do this, and maybe they will appeciate life a little bit more. I hear of americans complain about such insignificant things, they should try pulling a massive barge up the Volga River in the middle of winter, and get no pay except possibly a meal and a place to sleep. Be grateful you don't have to wake up in the morning to do this kind of work
@Redhammer627 there are plenty of examples from america's own history of slavery and suffery to draw upon, rather than reinforcing america's view of itself as the shining example of everything.
@SovietHolyMan well, actually I did have to pull a very large boat out of a sandbar in the Sittaung river in Myanmar. Some refugees helped of course, technically I was helping them, so I know how tough it is, but I only had to do it for about an hour and a half, not for years of my life as the volga boatmen.
@Redhammer627 What you hear is sadly true, living in the US is a pain because the average person seems to have an IQ lower than 50. Still better off than most though, still, a citizen with so much available to them should be able to tell me who Pancho Villa, Benito Mussolini, and Stalin are, but no, their minds consist of mostly new cell phones and news on celebreties. These people are so stupid.
@Redhammer627 Because you do have to pull a massive barge up the Volga river in the middle of the winter every morning? Is it cold up your high horse?
Ej uhnem, Ej uhnem, once more...until you all shut up and stop arguing about politics because this song has nothing to do with the USSR. It was sung during Tsarist times.
@TithonusSyndrome State-Capitalism never works and social democracy always evolves into capitalism, socialism or fascism as it's an inherently transitionary economic stage. You CAN'T mix them no matter how much you wish to.
America: the junk food/magic pill/instant gratification society. Its not surprising that they assume communism won't work just because its failed a few times. Not everything comes with instant success like American Idol for god's sake.
Communism CAN work. The lack of socialism in the US and UK seems to correspond with social breakdown. Surprising that eh?
@loko2468 Usually when millions of people die from each try of something, that's a hint you should stop trying that something. I'm not willing to torch homes and people in hopes one day that devil on top just may be right one day. The opposite of what you say. Detroit didn't decay from capitalism, hell capitalism gave it its nickname, Motor City before it fell. I'm also sure the millions of lazy but able people sapping the economy via welfare wasn't caused by capitalism.
@QuarantaSette47 actually it has nothing to do with torching homes. People still die in capitalism, although its usually covered up. You haven't thought in detail about communism before dismissing it. That's losing the ability to think straight but making judgements anyway - a sign of the brainwashing you're subjected to in the west. Ironic. Human nature has more than mere selfishness. a political system which focuses on that aspect will only feed and amplify it. People can also be selfless.
@BMBaccount One day a brilliant Communist will rise and lead the perfect communist dream, even if just for a year, but when it happens i'll be there celebrating that Stalin, Lenin, and even Marx himself where all right all along and we, the westerners rediculed them and even faced them in the threats of nuclear war, one day, one of these days... it will be golden and i can even see it now!
@Philyo32 - you are trully amazing! Yes, there never was communism anywhere yet. It was vision of Marx of the future theoretical highes formation of society of the individouals of dignity & intergrity, where people will do creative works and all mechanic job will be done by robots. And, YES it will be ! Study Scientology!
@loko2468 Trail of tears, 4,000 deaths. Holodomor- 7+mil. Gov't issued murder at best. I used to be a socialist in my early teen hood, then I got skeptic. Obviously you haven't seen the education system in the US. Forcing someone to give doesn't exactly make one a cheerful giver, that's how most wars start. It's not the obligation of a state to ensure its people are selfless, nor should I trust it to force morals I would already teach my children to be good members of society.
@QuarantaSette47 You realize that the deaths were the result of paranoid dictators that were NOT Communists, right? The USSR never really had a chance at true Communism...and after Lenin's death any chance it had sped out the door.
Mr. Robeson was persecuted because he had beliefs that conflicted with those of his government. If being poisoned by the CIA isn't a good example of American oppresion, I don't know what is
Yes, the Smith Act, or the Alien Registration Act is a perfect example of the US limiting the freedom of it's own citizens. My friend moved to America, and he tells me of such things when he comes home.
@gravhammer71 - Be glad you were born a Black person prior to civil rights legislation. Slavery, followed by Jim Crow laws and lynchings. No need to look all the way to Russia to find state sanctioned murder. And or course, slavery.
@Redhammer627 He was forced into retirement, not poisoned.. Get your facts straight and your tinfoil hat off your head..
"An FBI memo described Robeson's debilitated condition, remarking that his "death would be much publicized" and would be used for Communist propaganda, making continued surveillance imperative"
@bartlunatyk im of Polish descent. should i be hearing it right?
Stevezom 1 week ago
I love everything he sings, but if you are not Russian or Slavic then this somehow doesn't sound as it should.
Great performance but no slavic soul in it. SLAVA!!!
bartlunatyk 2 weeks ago
Хорошо спел, прекрасный голос и исполнение.
Коментарии было почитать тоже забавно.
DeaDLetteR4 1 month ago
Why does everything on YouTube relating to Russia always have petty political debates?
thrashmetalfiend 1 month ago 3
@thrashmetalfiend Russia is a fake Democracy.
manbigus 1 month ago
@manbigus
I agree. It is bandits' "democracy". But where can we find the real one?
BalashovM 3 weeks ago
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@thrashmetalfiend Russia is a fake Democracy.
manbigus 1 month ago
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@thrashmetalfiend Russia is a fake Democracy!
manbigus 1 month ago
@thrashmetalfiend Cause everyone thinks they're a politician apparently lol
MrCheckersmcgee 1 month ago
why are people arguing about communism at all?
this song was never made in the 20th century. It was made far back when the czar was far from being overthrown. It was a traditional song sung long before is original publication in 1866, and has nothing to do with communism, hearing people say that is insulting because their ignorance shines right through when they say that.
Spiciu, please, block these people from commenting.
yurislapabitch 2 months ago
im right wing, ok! but that doesn't matter right now bacause good music is good music no matter the political message.
This is really good music...
FaceTheSlayer6667 2 months ago
@FaceTheSlayer6667 What political message?
4ingP 2 months ago
@4ingP ok i spoke out a little wrong but i mean this song was very popular in sovjet russia, althought the song was written long time before in tsarist russia. Many people in here are having a political argument, and i think this is a good song and it has nothing with communism to do :)
FaceTheSlayer6667 2 months ago
@FaceTheSlayer6667 A little wrong?
4ingP 2 months ago
@4ingP ah nevermind just drop it.
FaceTheSlayer6667 2 months ago
@FaceTheSlayer6667 Never!
4ingP 2 months ago
@FaceTheSlayer6667 No!! I agree it not about politics. BEFORE VAPOR SHIPS, they had to carry ships with harnesses, (1700?) pulling like animals.
supermasterPIK 1 month ago
@FaceTheSlayer6667 O it has! The October revolution abolished such kind of labour/exploataion of "animals" as you'v
mentioned
m0riv4e 1 month ago
The YouTube politicians are very busy at the moment....
iownage4youi 3 months ago 14
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Arijahankhkhalid 3 months ago
I do not believe I am Russian, But this song gives me great respect for Life, Strength, and Pride. The will to fight. The will to be a peaceful man. The will to understand what Trials one must face in order to attain Greatness.
TheHumbleHope 6 months ago 2
fuck english
39Wolf 6 months ago
very fitting that he sings this since he was a well known communist
aa4285 6 months ago 2
@aa4285 Very interesting thing is that this song has been written way before communism.
leviath40 4 months ago
Stalin wrote about 333 books, most of them scientific research and fairly hard to constradict. He also wrote tthe only Constution ever to guarantee a right to work (SSSR 1936). How about your Kaïsar = Kaïô-Sarkon = I-calcinate-the-flesh ?
MardQUre327 6 months ago 2
Come on everyone, can we all please just listen to this beautiful music without all the arguing?
goblinonacloud 6 months ago 9
wow!
memphisgrownman 7 months ago
Original and this one are both beautiful
DmitriVodK 7 months ago
Im sorry, but I still believe in the Czar and his White armies. Only criminals where forced to pull the riverboats on the Volga.
garricus1 7 months ago
@garricus1 The Bolsheviks had great ideas, but their leadership ruined it pretty quickly. Its pretty hard to choose between Stalin and Czar Nicholas to be honest.
asmodeon 7 months ago
15 justin beiber alqueda fans disliked this
ArthaxtaDaVince777 7 months ago
Thanks for subscribing to THE FREE CHANNEL, I have always loved the Volga Boatmen, and had not heard it with Paul Robeson before :0) That's a classic :0)
monicamonni 8 months ago
Such a beautiful song...
MoltoPiccante 8 months ago
I remember singing this song in music class at Mason School in Omaha, Ne. That would be back in the 1940s. Brings back memories.
cf1934 8 months ago 2
Damn, why no one yet said: "In Soviet Russia barge pulling you!". Or i missed something?
lynxxxxie 8 months ago 2
@lynxxxxie because this song was made in 1866.
MarshalGeorgiZhukov 8 months ago
Коммунизм, капитализм...Ну и срач развели.
PureSirin 9 months ago
man i bet no body but me in my high school has ever heard Mr. Robeson's magnificent voice, such pain and at the same time such power
bigmathafaka 9 months ago
and this song was written to cheer work up a little, imagine how much it would suck without this.
SgtZippzapp 9 months ago
a view into the soul of Russia! There feels, to me, something here far vaster and deeper than of just seeing a line of poor people pulling a boat. The melody sounds to me like of old Orthodox church bells Tolling.
freestonew 10 months ago
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I shall point out that the picture was rather a product of imagination of an artist with social agenda in his mind. Real Russian boatmen didn't look like tramps. It was tough but reasonably well paid job for men in great shape very much like French canoers in time of fir trade in Canada. That is more like sea shanties - empowering.
DuStKalle 11 months ago
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DuStKalle 11 months ago
wow the best blues i have ever hear BRAVO commrad.look up these songs ara gevorgyan:moush,ani,sardarapat.kochari ull love them
ArthaxtaDaVince777 11 months ago
Burlacks dont pull boats up the Volga in Winter as the Volga has 6 feet of ice on it.
charlieclaw01 11 months ago
Surprised the top comment isn't "Why the hell is this in English?"
Sepharo 11 months ago
@Sepharo He says one line in Russian. If you want full English, listen to the Ol Man River. Same singer.
yuzuki010 4 weeks ago
@yuzuki010 I didn't mean I want it in English... It was a joke about youtube comments. And no, Ol Man River, even sung by the same performer, would not be an English translation.
Sepharo 4 weeks ago
Being a young person, I don't know anyone my age who appreciates this kind of music. It makes me incredibly disappointed with our generation, knowing that we care nothing of the culture of our past.
stephencassista 11 months ago
Amazing, stunning! Bravo, Mr. Robeson!! I really love his performance, especially how he sang some parts in Russian, it came out so natural! I think this song has a bit in common with "Ol' Man River", also brilliantly sung by Robeson.
sweetlorraine0 1 year ago
Великолепно!!!
SeahawkRus 1 year ago
There is a song about the Mississippi boatmen, called "Pushboat", originating from in hard times before steamboats. It is sang by the Byrds' frontman Roger McGuinn. It can be found here: ibiblio 'dot' org 'slash' jimmy 'slash' folkden-wp
The "Ol' Man River" by Paul Robeson was made up in 1936 for the musical "Showboat".
The biggest difference in lyrics between Russian and American boatmen I noticed was that the Americans even in hardship were thinking about them girls not work :)
ekimoll 1 year ago 3
PORTRETS BY ARTIST MISHA SMORCZEWSKI FROM RUSSIA :
Smorchevsky 1 year ago
Блин, меня всегда веселят англоязычные комменты, они типа все знают и понимают, но у них перед глазами пелена предвзятости (стереотипов). Это то, от чего мы в России избавились, в основном. А они застряли в этом.
zhaboid 1 year ago 8
@zhaboid
не все.
StG45m 7 months ago
The Americans did the same boatmen jobs on the Mississippi river at about the same times. I wonder if there are any songs from that time and about that? I guess not, otherwise Paul Roberson would sing it...
ekimoll 1 year ago
@ekimoll I found the answer to my own question. Paul Robeson also sang the song "Ol' Man River" about towing boats on the Mississippi.
ekimoll 1 year ago
Sila!
ekimoll 1 year ago
Столько комментариев иностранных.) Интересно хоть кто-нибудь понимает "Бурлаков на Волге" из них?
ierofant1000 1 year ago 2
@ierofant1000 Konechno ponimaet, ved' burlaki byli i v Amerike...
ekimoll 1 year ago
@ekimoll Проездом. Да ещё и без искутсствоведческих рецензий и материалов.
ierofant1000 1 year ago
A MAN WITH A VOICE WHICH DEPICTS THE WARMTH OF LOVE TO A WORLD FULL OF HATE AND MIX FEELINGS THAT ARE SO MIX UP,THAT IT HAS NO TIME TO TAKE NOTE OF THE TREASURE WITH-IN THE SOUL THAT PRODUCE THE SOUNDS TO HEAL AND REMOVE THE POISON THAT IS SLOWLY DESTROYING IT,YET WE HAVE THE FORMULA TO DO THIS .BY PULLING TOGETHER ,IT MAKES US STRONGER MORE TOLERANT, MORE LOVING, MORE AMBER...
LIVINGSTON694 1 year ago 2
I suppose non of this song would be written if they used HORSES, COWS OR MULES for that job.... OOHHH those Russians
pianeroman 1 year ago
@pianeroman Think of the environment in that area dude...
frigs123 1 year ago
@pianeroman I guess it would be brayed rather than sung! :)
NicosNicosNicosNicos 1 year ago
@pianeroman Are you kidding? Do you how much a good horse cost back then? Three, maybe four roubles! It was a lot cheaper to just use some serfs!
Charliecomet82 8 months ago
Эхх... уууххнем... :)
TZMRussia 1 year ago
Paul Robeson is a hero!
otuzniak 1 year ago
THAT is a sad song! Misery, toil and hard labor.
TIMOTHYSAARINEN 1 year ago
Listen how SHALYAPIN sings Volga Boatmen song!!!
But anyway, respect to Paul Robertson.
VIMrussia 1 year ago 3
Brillent*********
Great song and images
Thanks Judie for sharing
lauredean100 1 year ago
Btw Tomas...slavery cannot better demonstrated than by this tune!!!
gfks11 1 year ago
@gfks11
that was the first thing that popped into my mind upon just finding this...and noticing who is singing...and the picture and the lyrics....
uplifter1000 1 year ago
@gfks11
I still remember how my father explained this song to me when I was seven and I was playing it on the piano. It was quite graphic (I'm American, but he had taken enough Soviet Studies in the day to know just what this song was about).
fearlessfred14 1 year ago
@fearlessfred14 Of what relevance are Soviet Studies to this song? It was written in Tsarist Russia and reflected conditions of that time. The USSR did what few other civilizations can claim - it transformed an 18th century monarchy into a 20th century superpower with food and medicine for all its people, and it did this not only in the absence of all foreign aid, but in the face of two major imperialist invasions, first from the USA, British Commonwealth, France, Japan etc, and then Nazis.
TithonusSyndrome 1 year ago 2
@TithonusSyndrome
Yes, they have done all this. By enslaving, starving to death, murdering millions of people.
KrzychAdam1 1 year ago
@KrzychAdam1 When American, British, French, Japanese, Canadian and Australian soldiers are occupying your country en masse and thwarting your attempts to industrialize by shooting your people dead for mere political affiliations, you don't have much choice.
TithonusSyndrome 1 year ago
@TithonusSyndrome Yeah, right. Starving millions of Ukrainian and Russian peasants in the Thirties, establishing Gulag system with dozens if not hundreds of labor camps in which people died of hard work conditions and malnutrition, cyclical purges, aggression towards neighboring countries how is related to civil war and intervention of foreign powers before 1920?
KrzychAdam1 1 year ago
@KrzychAdam1 Typically, nations attempting to industrialize upwards from the 18th century are entitled to lots of Western aid... so long as they worship the right religion and have the right political system. Left to their own modest means, part of which involves routine periods of famine related to natural cycles of agricultural decline that we take for granted due to modern petrochemical agriculture, mass hand labor is the only option - as is "aggression" towards the proxies of western powers.
TithonusSyndrome 1 year ago
@TithonusSyndrome So that apparently pardons gulags, labor camps and purges? If you want to be an edgy communist, at least try better..
Bogermanproductions 1 year ago
@Bogermanproductions You tell me what your genius plan is for rapidly industrializing a country subject to routine periods of natural famine. I don't see you McCarthyist redbaiting lunatics ever giving the US government hell for their response to the dust storms of the 1920s and 1930s, nor the British administration in India the same criticism for the famines in 20th century India - because they belong to your tribe and are above criticism, naturally.
TithonusSyndrome 11 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome First of all, I'm not a 'McCarthyist redbaiting lunatic', I'm a socialist myself (as in: more equality but still more pay for jobs like neurosurgeons etc, not the pro-slacker kind) and I'm not (immediately) averse to communism (and I don't call things communist unless they truly are).
Secondly, your plan of industrialising a country like that is killing tons of officers and religious folk and slave labour? I'm glad you're just some lowlife and not a ruler..
Bogermanproductions 11 months ago
@Bogermanproductions Whoop de fuck, an unsolicited litany of whatever you self-identify as. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
This old canard about religious purges aside - one wonders why Stalin received such a warm and effusively praising Orthodox Church funeral courtesy of Patriarch Alexiy II when Lenin didn't - I notice you still haven't elaborated on any details of what your rapid industrial-agrarian scheme would be. As an engineer, I have some ideas - but evidently I'm a "lowlife".
TithonusSyndrome 11 months ago
@TithonusSyndrome Oh how intelligent, blatantly ignoring anything I say
And I can assure you my plans would involve a lot less systematic purging and slavery
Bogermanproductions 11 months ago
@Bogermanproductions When all you said was a bunch of overly defensive self-asserted identity titles, what exactly have you given me that requires responding? If you need to announce your identity to the world for reasons of personal reassurance, fine, but I'm afraid it has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
Anyone can say that their plans would be better; few can actually put their money where their mouth is. Let's see if you can, cretin.
TithonusSyndrome 10 months ago
@Bogermanproductions
Well, in communist society you don't need to pay more to somebody because there would be no need for it and everybody would be equal. But people are greedy bastards.
StG45m 7 months ago 2
@StG45m To which message was that a reply if I may ask? :)
Bogermanproductions 7 months ago
@Bogermanproductions
the latest one in the chain.
StG45m 7 months ago
@StG45m With the slavery I meant the gulags and other siberian work camps :)
Bogermanproductions 7 months ago
Thanks Tomas for sharing.... indeed an awesome song.... sang really great....a wonderful vid!!
Cheers to Ireland and you....Judie:)
gfks11 1 year ago
Исполнение берёт за душу, большое спасибо и исполнителю, и тому кто выложил.
Pashacentr 1 year ago 2
oh i was impressed!
ahoahoization 1 year ago
Great song.My father used to sing it for me in Russian although he was Greek
TheYanula 1 year ago 5
All oppressed people have a blues song, this is Russian blues.
Algonac9 1 year ago 86
@Algonac9 Sung about the Czarist era and the slavery attributed with it, once slaves Lenin set us free.
S0VIETS0LDIER 4 months ago
@S0VIETS0LDIER All Lenin did was change the shackles. "once slaves Lenin set us free." Ya, free to do Lenin/Stalin's bidding. 70 years wasted stifling dissent, productivity, innovation, and crushing the spirit of the people chasing the ridiculous dream of a socialist state. Economic and environmental dead zones, pograms, work camps, gulags and land use disasters. How many generations will it take for Mother Russia to recover from 70 years of disasterous leadership?
Algonac9 4 months ago
@Algonac9 So you really believed all the McCarthy propaganda bullshit? Paul Robeson was blacklisted by people like you for being a communist, he loved Lenin, and adored the soviet system.... that was all they needed to have him silenced and never play in another major theater, ever again. yeah communism has only seen the greatest of achievements in both social and economic growth, and sure stalin was harsh, but had it not been for him the USSR would have lost to the Nazis.
S0VIETS0LDIER 4 months ago
@S0VIETS0LDIER "McCarthy propaganda bullshit" LOL Obviously your understanding of history has been poisoned by your blind allegiance to a bankrupt political system. "yeah communism has only seen the greatest of achievements in both social and economic growth" Again LOL "achievements" That would be the shortest book in the world. Both the system and the leadership have been righfully relegated to the ash-heap of history. Failures. "sure stalin was harsh" Biggest laugh yet.
Algonac9 3 months ago
@Algonac9 the soviet economic system was far ahead of america's economic system up until the 1980's when everything started going down hill. and Vladimir I. Lenin during his rule of the soviet union experimented with many different forms of marxism in the 1920s and had it to where everyone was truly equal, women where going to college and where even getting jobs in the government.
marine5289 3 months ago
@marine5289 Read my responce to SOVIETSOLDIER above. An untouchable dictator. Show trials, purges, secret police, gulags, ethnic relocations, land use disasters these are all FACTS that killed millions of people. After Sputnik and YuriG the long slow collapse. There was never a possibility of the Soviet state sustaining itself. It took 70 yrs for this bad idea to run the country down to the sad state that it is trying to recover from. Pathetically, selfishly wasting Russian lives and resources.
Algonac9 3 months ago
The artist was Ukrainian, not Russian.
Robeson was a great American
UkieOli 1 year ago
@UkieOli So great that he was bumped off...
Henners1991 1 year ago
@UkieOli LOL dream on. He was a Russian who may have lived in Ukraine just like all the other Russian writers and artists that lived in Kiev, the first Russian city. I come from an old Russian bloodline that of course goes back to Kiev and all the holy churches there, am I too now Ukranian? Eat ur ravioli quietly lest you embarrass yourselves anymore.
sphaeramundi 1 year ago 13
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irynski 5 months ago
@sphaeramundi Take a peak at Repin's bio at Wiki:
wiki/Ilya_Repin
Stop salivating over your long bloodline back to Rus'. Kievan Rus' and any Russia are NOT the same thing. Any resemblance between Russian families, Polish families or Ukrainian families living in Kiev is simply a reflection on the fact that it was a cosmopolitan city... located in UKRAINE. Try not to choke on the froth coming out of your mouth. What's your 'long bloodline'? I doubt you're even Russian, just a Russophile.
irynski 5 months ago
@irynski
As idiotic as sphaeramundi is, Repin was Russian. "His parents were Russian military settlers", according to Wikipedia (your own source). Ukraine has many brilliant authors, painters, philosophers, and revolutionaries that it can claim, but Repin just isn't one of them. Sorry.
SgtSanchez 4 months ago
@sphaeramundi You have Raviois? I would like some raviolis if you would be so kind as to share. :)
BubbaBossDiesel 4 months ago
Ilja Repin is such a great artist....For those who spend there life on stupid politics and don't take the time to listen to this great song,Ilja Repin is the artist of this picture.He probaly did more than all you political-incorrect faggots did together
iownage4youi 1 year ago 2
@Uruguruh Well, he isn't. :\ he sings it in English. Imagine a Russian singing a Russian song in English.
inukirby992 1 year ago
Interesting rendition, quite awesome.
BaronVonKenny 1 year ago
GREAT! RESPECT FROM RUSSIA
RomanRUS163 1 year ago
Just read Das Kapital for those who argue with communism.AND NOW LISTEN TO THE SONG.
Hitler made 12 accounts to rate thise video 12 thumbs down
iownage4youi 1 year ago
Great humans when subject to discrimination have two ways excel or radicalize Robison did both
dcazal011 1 year ago 4
Paul isn't even Russian. But whatever.
inukirby992 1 year ago
@inukirby992 Yes, whatever. kirby. Imagine non-Russian singing russian songs.
Uruguruh 1 year ago
DOH DOH DOHHH DOHH! DOH DOH DOH DOH- COME SING VITH ME!
AMetalNinja 1 year ago
@AMetalNinja LOL!!!!!! HAHAHAHAA>>..........
Uruguruh 1 year ago
Can someone send me the lyrics?
vttv01 1 year ago
@vttv01 In Russian: Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз! Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз! Разовьём мы берёзу, Разовьём мы кудряву! Ай-да, да ай-да, Aй-да, да ай-да, Разовьём мы кудряву. Мы по бережку идём, Песню солнышку поём. Ай-да, да ай-да, Aй-да, да ай-да, Песню солнышку поём. Эй, эй, тяни канат сильней! Песню солнышку поём. Эй, ухнем! Эй, ухнем! Ещё разик, ещё да раз!
(That's my limit)
LockhartSpain 1 year ago
@LockhartSpain Spaceebo
MorganPolander 1 year ago
seems he didnt understant words of song ( why so melanholic ?
pilotivanovich 1 year ago
@pilotivanovich I think, if you consider it in the context of Stalingrad, and repelling the Nazis, it becomes very melancholic. It represents both the tenacity of the Red Army, and the grim fatalism of the enormous losses they sustained for victory.
oneillkza 1 year ago
I'd always wondered where this tune came from, and Now I know! :D
GeneralBurkhalter1 1 year ago
This song is extremely moving ... My grandfather sang the whole, perfectly, and it always inspired me a lot of respect and affection for Russian people, too much suffering, but of unparalleled musical sensibilities in the circumstances of the heaviest ... My compliments for the greatness of this interpretation video! Enabled me to return to my childhood and feel part of this people for a period of time, and without even thinking, there is a link on me when I hear these tunes ...
TheHappinessmusic 1 year ago 4
Why must they always translate in English?
quebeclaique 1 year ago
I agree with InvisibleCloudKing you people just start appreciating Paul Robeson please and his wonderful talent
MyGamingVids 1 year ago 3
Paul was very interested in singing folk songs from other cultures. You can tell- this is amazing.
CaptMARNEY 1 year ago 4
What a voice!!!
What a man!!!!
northerbrewer 1 year ago 5
Erecting a comment.
firetamer102 1 year ago
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majstorjoe 1 year ago
Robeson had one hell of a voice.
dergeier117 1 year ago 4
Most children today and americans should have to do this, and maybe they will appeciate life a little bit more. I hear of americans complain about such insignificant things, they should try pulling a massive barge up the Volga River in the middle of winter, and get no pay except possibly a meal and a place to sleep. Be grateful you don't have to wake up in the morning to do this kind of work
Redhammer627 1 year ago 79
@Redhammer627 there are plenty of examples from america's own history of slavery and suffery to draw upon, rather than reinforcing america's view of itself as the shining example of everything.
smalltime0 1 year ago 2
@Redhammer627 And how many times have you pulled a barge mate?
SovietHolyMan 1 year ago
@SovietHolyMan well, actually I did have to pull a very large boat out of a sandbar in the Sittaung river in Myanmar. Some refugees helped of course, technically I was helping them, so I know how tough it is, but I only had to do it for about an hour and a half, not for years of my life as the volga boatmen.
Redhammer627 1 year ago
@Redhammer627 Ha ha- he didnt expect that reply- good for you.....
raysondetra 1 year ago
@Redhammer627 What you hear is sadly true, living in the US is a pain because the average person seems to have an IQ lower than 50. Still better off than most though, still, a citizen with so much available to them should be able to tell me who Pancho Villa, Benito Mussolini, and Stalin are, but no, their minds consist of mostly new cell phones and news on celebreties. These people are so stupid.
frigs123 1 year ago
@frigs123 That, my friend, is the result of ultra corporate consumerism. Material things mean more than any other matter.
Redhammer627 1 year ago
@Redhammer627 Because you do have to pull a massive barge up the Volga river in the middle of the winter every morning? Is it cold up your high horse?
Bogermanproductions 1 year ago
@Redhammer627 Dude, stop just talking about americans. We're not the only lazy ones.
th3sp0rk 11 months ago
@Redhammer627 Have you seen our republican budget proposal?
Llantha 10 months ago
@Redhammer627 why americans and children?dont generalize you asshole
jeffreywish 9 months ago
That boat looks alot bigger then those guys. hah.
skiie 1 year ago
@skiie it is.
keanucange 1 year ago
Ej uhnem, Ej uhnem, once more...until you all shut up and stop arguing about politics because this song has nothing to do with the USSR. It was sung during Tsarist times.
thegeniusandthefool 1 year ago 8
@BMBaccount same with capitalism. Could it be that... gasp! We should combine the best of BOTH systems?!!?
TithonusSyndrome 1 year ago
@TithonusSyndrome too late, some one beat you to it (look @ china...)
Philyo32 1 year ago
@TithonusSyndrome State-Capitalism never works and social democracy always evolves into capitalism, socialism or fascism as it's an inherently transitionary economic stage. You CAN'T mix them no matter how much you wish to.
dmkavidelly 1 year ago
@dmkavidelly stfu with your politics!! just enjoy this music! (=
JonnyBgr 1 year ago
Oh my God, is really perfect singer. Greetings from Russia!
DarkNomad812 1 year ago 2
America: the junk food/magic pill/instant gratification society. Its not surprising that they assume communism won't work just because its failed a few times. Not everything comes with instant success like American Idol for god's sake.
Communism CAN work. The lack of socialism in the US and UK seems to correspond with social breakdown. Surprising that eh?
loko2468 1 year ago
@loko2468 Usually when millions of people die from each try of something, that's a hint you should stop trying that something. I'm not willing to torch homes and people in hopes one day that devil on top just may be right one day. The opposite of what you say. Detroit didn't decay from capitalism, hell capitalism gave it its nickname, Motor City before it fell. I'm also sure the millions of lazy but able people sapping the economy via welfare wasn't caused by capitalism.
Good vid btw.
QuarantaSette47 1 year ago
@QuarantaSette47 actually it has nothing to do with torching homes. People still die in capitalism, although its usually covered up. You haven't thought in detail about communism before dismissing it. That's losing the ability to think straight but making judgements anyway - a sign of the brainwashing you're subjected to in the west. Ironic. Human nature has more than mere selfishness. a political system which focuses on that aspect will only feed and amplify it. People can also be selfless.
loko2468 1 year ago
@loko2468 Communism would work perfectly in a perfect world. Sadly, we do not live in this world.
BMBaccount 1 year ago
@BMBaccount One day a brilliant Communist will rise and lead the perfect communist dream, even if just for a year, but when it happens i'll be there celebrating that Stalin, Lenin, and even Marx himself where all right all along and we, the westerners rediculed them and even faced them in the threats of nuclear war, one day, one of these days... it will be golden and i can even see it now!
Philyo32 1 year ago
@Philyo32 Even years after her death, Ayn Rand still stomps you into the ground.
KaseyAkira 1 year ago 2
@Philyo32 Good luck with that.
msteven515 1 year ago
@Philyo32 - you are trully amazing! Yes, there never was communism anywhere yet. It was vision of Marx of the future theoretical highes formation of society of the individouals of dignity & intergrity, where people will do creative works and all mechanic job will be done by robots. And, YES it will be ! Study Scientology!
ludmilalloyd 1 year ago
@ludmilalloyd Thanks for the compliment, but Scientology!? I'd never DREAM of converting to a scientologist. Im currently happy with my religion.
Philyo32 1 year ago
@Philyo32 Try LDS instead.
If you investigate, you never will regret it.
denidowi 1 year ago
@loko2468 Trail of tears, 4,000 deaths. Holodomor- 7+mil. Gov't issued murder at best. I used to be a socialist in my early teen hood, then I got skeptic. Obviously you haven't seen the education system in the US. Forcing someone to give doesn't exactly make one a cheerful giver, that's how most wars start. It's not the obligation of a state to ensure its people are selfless, nor should I trust it to force morals I would already teach my children to be good members of society.
QuarantaSette47 1 year ago
@QuarantaSette47 You realize that the deaths were the result of paranoid dictators that were NOT Communists, right? The USSR never really had a chance at true Communism...and after Lenin's death any chance it had sped out the door.
Glyre777 1 year ago 5
The Paul Robeson House Museum is just a few blocks from my home here in West Philadelphia. There is a local High School named after him.
buddmar 1 year ago
What a stunning voice!
When I was a child I had a wind up toy that played this song. I've wondered what it was for a very long time.
erinmerle 1 year ago 2
Very masculine song
jackjarell 1 year ago 4
Amerians think they are so free...
Mr. Robeson was persecuted because he had beliefs that conflicted with those of his government. If being poisoned by the CIA isn't a good example of American oppresion, I don't know what is
Redhammer627 1 year ago 10
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Redbaron011 1 year ago
Yes, the Smith Act, or the Alien Registration Act is a perfect example of the US limiting the freedom of it's own citizens. My friend moved to America, and he tells me of such things when he comes home.
Redhammer627 1 year ago
Be happy you werent born in Stalin's Russia
gravhammer71 1 year ago 3
Oh, I am. If I were, I'd spend my whole life trying to escape lol.
Redbaron011 1 year ago
@gravhammer71 - Be glad you were born a Black person prior to civil rights legislation. Slavery, followed by Jim Crow laws and lynchings. No need to look all the way to Russia to find state sanctioned murder. And or course, slavery.
MrRedFredSaid 1 year ago 3
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Redbaron011 1 year ago
@Redhammer627 I agree, comrade!
TheFragrance1992 1 year ago
@Redhammer627 He was forced into retirement, not poisoned.. Get your facts straight and your tinfoil hat off your head..
"An FBI memo described Robeson's debilitated condition, remarking that his "death would be much publicized" and would be used for Communist propaganda, making continued surveillance imperative"
The FBI kept him alive, they didn't kill him..
Bogermanproductions 1 year ago
This is beautiful.
Pooshhead 1 year ago