This is not about Stalin, this is about fantastic heroism of common people, which cannot be met nowadays. If you have only 125 grams (some quarter pound) of bread a day (which is not actually a bread but some shitty clayish substance) and if that lasts for years. Just imagine that.
What? If Stalin was a murderer, as he was, then the NAZIS should not have been resisted for this? Then the mass (super mass murders of Hitler) were justified because Stalin killed?
Удивительно, но в условиях советского и нацистского тоталитарных режимов родились такие произведения искусства, которые по своей мощи и гениальности сопоставимы разве что с произведениями эпохи Ренессанса. Шостакович и Ахматова, Булгаков и Филонов, Эйзенштейн ( в СССР) и Рифеншталь (в Германии).
мы не жили в то время и не знаем ситуации ни в стране ни в мире , а политики пишут историю , как им выгодно в политической карьере,а нас всех принимают за дебилов
Stalin is evil alien he killed Jesus and Kennadi also he made Obama black jew.
And the most horable Stalin killed 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Russians by himself and 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 of other nations
One of the most jaw-dropping moments in modern musical documentary:
When the black and white images of Shostakovich take over from the modern Gergiev performance of the slow movement and the musical intonation and pace are so well judged.
It makes me feel very small humble and grateful in the face of such an imagination as that of DSCH.
If you like this master piece of Shostakovich as I do.... Read the William T Vollmann book Central Europa... Most part of his book do of Shostakovich one of his hero, and speak about his all work his history and his life... Even if a part of his book is fictional.... He done a dam good work about Shostakovich life
fuck off all of you who bringing politicis to this viewtiful music.... this music it isn´t dor the mass murderous liders of that time... was for the people, who had to fight the faccist armies of german... and ti suffer the red faccism of stalin...
don´t forget the americans to, who mass murder people in south america, filipinas, vietnam...
All these empires are the disease... peace, real freedom, education... are the cure.
@gideon1984 +100 I also сall all people commenting here to stop discuss here politics especially nothing understanding in it. Why people don't discuss the same or probably much more bloody tirant as Francisco Franco in Spain or Haji Muhammad Suharto in Indonezia or Augusto Pinochet in Chile? I can continue this list.. So stop talking about this, it has no any sence, trust me. It's better to look nowadays and ask ourself why we don't have such music genius as we had in not such far past..
Я поражаюсь насколько мы далеки от всего этого, у нас тут на днях сирены проверяли, а я в инете искал началась война или слишком долгая проверка сирен.
@Oleg111222333 Как мы можем быть далеки от Великой Отечественной войны, если еще жива память о погибших в почти каждой семье бывшего СССР ( так как все республики посылали воинов)? Если забывается, то можно сходить на Пискаревское в Питере и послушать, прочитать строки из дневника Тани Савичевой. Такое нельзя забывать. Плохо, что забываете.....
@TheTollundWoman none of your books show any evidence for massmurder commited by the stasi your are as ridiculous as you are inbred. further proof for the fact that your father sired you with his sister is that you don't know who fritzl is. fritzl is the austrian guy who kept his daughter locked up in a bunker under his house and had several children with her. after several years they got released only recently. all you say is bla bla bla
Just out of curiosity, comrade (sarcasm. sorry), why have you neglected to respond to my arguments with any counterpoints of you own? Why, instead of providing any evidence for your point, or explaining your own opinion, or having a rational discussion like an adult, do you immediately resort to random insults accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being "inbred"? You must not have any evidence to counter mine, otherwise you wouldn't be using such juvenile tactics.
@TheTollundWoman I like this figure to 60 million, but its nothing you rounded 58 million ... She was taken to propaganda Gebels .. I understand that you are at work and it's your job to lie, but could not you have enough conscience to not get involved in this video?
The statistic of 60 million deaths is a well-documented fact, read Solzhenitsyn, the world renowned historian and nobel laureate. your comment reflects a willful, callous denial of historical facts not unlike the sick comments of holocaust deniers who defend hitler. Shame.
Never mind the fact that Solzhenitsyn is a world-renowned historian, author and Nobel Laureate. Never mind that he compiled the most extensive, thorough, objective historical account of the Soviet prison system (the GULag Archipelago) ever written to this very day. You can discount the objective facts and the historian who documented them, simply b/c your local party secretary told you to!
Hail Russia, the last empire of the world, which won this war, despite everything, despite the communist, who failed to organize and murdered out the best people of the country before the war!
European degenerated people! Please do no not comment thing you cannot understand at all. Just continue to chew your mac-grass. There are enough stupidity without you. Just "love" each other into the butts on gey parades! And leave normal peoples alone! Thanks!
Arguing about the difference between Communism and Fascism is about the same as arguing the difference between having a cancerous tumor in your left or right lung. They both kill.
@TheDavid2222 that's kind of a pointless argument. without britain the war would've been lost. without america the war would've been lost. without france...well...fuck france. they suck (jk).
@TheDavid2222: Let's put it this way, America supplied much of the weaponry as well as a lot of supplies of the nature of food and ammunition, Russia supplied the manpower and the passion (born out of being threatened for her very existence as a people!), Britain and her Commonwealth (and specifically Winston Spencer Churchill!!!) the initial resolve to fight Nazi Germany without mercy to the end. ALL were necessary for the war to be successfully fought to its conclusion!!
And thank you for the Goelags, Stalin, CCCP and even more deaths?
I don't think so, good they have beaten the Nazi's, but not 'thank you russia' for me, thank you soldiers who gave their lives and were forced to fight. But not thank you Russia.
It was just as genocidal, murderous and EVIL as Nazism and Fascism: Communism and Nazism/Fascism are two sides of the same coin!!! Under Ljéñin and Stáljin, 40,000,000 people perished IN PEACETIME!!!
For people more knowledgeable about Shostakovich, which movement of his 7th Symphony is the part from about 1:33-where Shostakovich. I listened to a bit of movement one "Leningrad" and didn't find it there.
@BloggerMusicMan: The passage in question is from the THIRD movement of that same symphony.
While we're at it, the music of the first 90 seconds is drawn not from the 7th Symphony but from the 1st movement of the same composer's SIXTH Symphony.
[In case I'm wrong in the least in this posting, I must point out that it's only as of yesterday and today that I've been really getting to know these masterworks - thanks, yakovsmirnov55, for posting this video-clip (taken from a larger video?)!!
Folks have this tendency to discuss politics and history in these posts due to Dmitri's connection with the Communist Party and his personal experiences, etc.. When it seems infinitely more appropriate to honor his fabulous music by discussing tempo changes, key changes, and all that jazz. To wit: a person could spend the rest of his or her natural life hypothesizing about the 4th symphony's inner logic. Let's see that kind of musicological pontification for a change! Here, here.
The main problem the west had with Hitler was that Germany had no common border with the USSR. Chamberlin fixed that by giving Hitler Czeckoslovakia. That was called apeasement, but it was also the plan, and Stalin knew it.
@billybill56 germany killed jews because the media neglected germany in thh great depression robbing germany of millions of dollars in the great depression thats equivalent to these bailouts. nazi's are labled murderers because of it. the USA stretches from NY to CA because Americans MURDERD NATIVE AMERICANS and the USA is called LAND OF THE FREE.
@hereHehereHE It was Germany's fault. If they had not started the first world war they would not have suffered afterwards and especially during the great depression. They tried to blame it on others - Jews especially. As regards the native Americans, this part of history occurred during the discovery of new lands. There were no cities as we know them. The Indians roamed free over a great mass of land. It was a completely different situation to the Germans, who plundered and murdered.
@hnk777 WW1 was started by Serbia for assasinating FF.
the jews own the media and started ww2 and play the innocent card your a dumbass native americans are people weather or not they lived in cities lol stupid fuck
@hereHehereHE: ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!!! Austria-Hungary deliberately sent Franz-Ferdinand von Habsburg to get killed in Sarájevo, in the teeth of strong advice and repeated warnings against his doing so - and he himself didn't want to go!!! However, the government was hoping for him to be killed so they would have their 'casus belli' so they'd have a 'brief' war and that way annex Serbia to the Austro-Hungarian Empire!! In the process, the Emperor Franz Joseph would be rid of a nephew he had
NEVER either forgotten or forgiven for insisting on marrying the Countess Sophia Chotek (below supposed Habsburg 'station', so that their offspring would be ineligible for the Imperial Throne).
When both Franz-Ferdinand von Habsburg and Sophia von Hohenberg-Chotek were murdered in Sarájevo, Franz Joseph proved his hatred and contempt of that couple by giving them the minimum possible obsequies, even in the teeth of protests by the Austro-Hungarian nobility and the Viennese people.
This timeless grandiose and chilling masterpiece sends shivers down my spine. For a Russian, whose family members both died on the front and suffered through the WW2 hunger, this music brings memories of the survivors and brings tears to my eyes. When I imagine how the symphony was played by starved Leningrad musicians during the German onslaught - it's heartbreaking and so moving. This music captures the horrors of the war, the suffering, the spirit and strength of the Russian people.
@HannaB555 Yes, but also remember that the USSR was as bad as Nazi Germany---Stalin fed his own people to the wolves in a way. A very bad place to be--and the Russian people somehow survived these monstrosities--but did they do so with their psyches intact?? AS I look in today's headlines--NO.
@windstorm1000 Well done for your intelligent and very astute comment, dear. What I like most about it is how well-read and well-informed you obviously are and that you do not at all generalise. As for building your knowledge of history and sociology on media headlines - that's fantastic. In fact, reading your wise words I am amazed by your wisdom. I wish you well.
@HannaB555 U are being sarcastic--not nice. My comment IS a generlization--but a fairly accurate one. In this medium there is no room for point by point. Without going to the country---& I admit that is a negative--I try to be as well read as possible, talk to Russians--whether is a gen. view, of that I am guilty. But millions did die there, & many injustices aganst gen. segments of pop.'s still exist--gays, anyone w a dissent outlook. There ARE exceptions. Inform us, o cultural oracle.
@serkyl Ok, here we go people--I write a reasonable post & I'm rewarded by this goon rage instead of an intelligent rebuttal. Our western media, comrade, affords us much more freedom than Russia. There are good people in Russia--BUT we see YT clips of goons beating up gays in Moscow, Putin's youth squad threatening to kill liberals!! That's normal??? Democracy is on the run in Russia--you still have to watch your back. What fairy tale do you live in? Baba yaga??
@windstorm1000 ...and they are right - no sodomy in Russia,
liberals make me sick, they are sort of prostitutes....or minions of international tycoons and dont tell me about freedom which you get from western media...you get feelings of 'freedom' but you much more slave of capitalism system
@serkyl You realize "sodomy" also includes oral sex, right? It's not just anal. And it can ALSO be male-female, not just same-sex. So, unless you're going around beating every guy who has ever gotten a blowjob from a girl, or tried anal with a girl, your claims of keeping sodomy out of Russia are just horseshit excuses to hide homophobic bigotry. The bigoted scum here have religion to blame for it, what the fuck's your excuse?
Don't talk about freedom while trying to justify harming someone.
@HannaB555 I read your post & I really feel for what happened to your family So,why, then did you slam my post stating some of the horrors in Russian history? I did see the BBC series on Leningrad for what its worth. Unbelievable images. No doubt the Russian people suffereed beyond our understanding. I think there needs to be more forums between US and Russian people to clear up misunderstandings. I just look at YT clips of Putin's youth (Hitlers'??) beating up gays/liberals--Well?????
congratulations for your video. shostakovich is always a pleasure to hear. by the way, my father fought too against germans in italy on II WW. i understand the spirit of your video. in brazil we respect and admire the sacrifc of the persons in Leningrad . i think the most wonderful attitude against the barbarian in those dark times. joy & freedom. antonio
The only shameful thing in this great video is Stalin, yes, that one who was about to do Shostakovich the same as he did with Meyerhold after a Lady Macbeth of Menstk performance...
Marsz imperialistyczny z tej symfonii mogę słuchać na okrągło. Jest tysiąc razy lepszy pod każdym względem, niż oparte na tym samym pomyśle Bolero Ravela. Swoją drogą ile ten naród przeszedł. Boże...
It's a wonderful Emmy Award-winning documentary called "The War Symphonies": Shostakovich Against Stalin" and is, I believe easily ordered on Amazon...
simply search 'the war symphonies' on youtube. alot of it is in russian though, and the subtitles are in spanish, which is why i came to this video...
I can't believe Shostakovich even made it this far despite his oppositions w/the Soviet government. Still they got him in some way anyway... a lot of his work and pieces were banned & destroyed. How suppressing & humiliating
Ok, so Stalin helped lead Russia through WWII, but that doesn't excuse him as the tyrant he was. Hitler was evil, but that doesn't mean you can contrast Stalin to that. He killed thousands for not joining his party, and so forth. It's like shooting someone becasue they don't want to come in your tree house. They were two bads fighting one another, but that doesn't make one good per say.
To be correct, you can not place Hitler and Stalin in the same "two bads" category; there were different bads. Stalin never brainwashed his people to think they are top breed of race, while other nations had to be slaves, castrated or killed right away and made into soap or raw material for nazis' gloves and purses.
You cannot compare of course, but that doesn't mean Stailn was not "as bad". Obviously Hitler was the worst, but Stailn was still a tyrant. It was terrible to live under either leader.
I'm sorry to break into a conversation, but don't you think that the history and the personality are too difficult just to blame them "bad" or "good"? And I don(t know your background, but, obviously, you couldn't live in the Stalin's time. I should say that people were happy (those who was alive, of course).
Definitely not. My grandmother fought as a gurilla warrior durring WWII at 16 years old. She lived in central Europe, not Russia. The stories I've heard are...bad, and those come form a country that was influenced...I couldn't even imagine the source country...
Again, Stalin was bad different way. It differs even here: if you were a German, your life under Hitler was good (basically before full-fledged war with USSR started). Under Stalin, many lived in fear; though most people never heard of anything horrible about GULAGs and repressions, even though it may seem now that everybody knew and feared.
indeed you can't.stalin's legacy lives still while the nazis are pretty much dead:) plus there's the body count.around 6mil for hitler and 25 for stalin.
A symphony dedicated to the City of Leningrad and the great hero soldier who stood alone against superior odds, the great and humble leader Josef Stalin.
The great people of Russia and Sankt Petersburg inc. DDS himself.
Not Stalin the butcher and murderer who killed more of his own people than the Germans the animal. Had he not purged the Army and people like Tuchakevsky a friend of DDS the Germans would not have advanced as far as they did initially.
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How can you say this? In the history of Russia, the people repeatedly proclaimed Josef Stalin as a Hero of Socialist Labor, and the Saviour of millions of people. Young women wept at his funeral.
"Officially" speaking, Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is about the 1905 Revolution.
Shostakovich actually dedicated the Eleventh Symphony to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, but there is no way that would have flown with the Stalinist authorities. So he "officially" made the symphony about 1905.
why are you on youtube watching a documentary excerpt while wishing you were listening to a CD when you could instead be listening to a CD instead of watching a great documentary?
I'm just trying to listen to the song,I didn't say anything about a CD, it doesn't say Shostakovich Documentary it just says Shostakovich 7th Symphony,so it's easy to assume that it was just the song, the info doesn't even say its a documentary.
Sorry, but if you press the underlined "more info" on the right, you'll discover that it must be part of a documentary... in fact, that film is the Emmy-winning "The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin" and there are many other excerpts of it on YouTube...
The description:
Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of Leningrad describe the first performance of this great symphony
No it doesnt, I don't see the word documentary there it says
"Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of Leningrad describe the first performance of this great symphony "
My goodness - technically you are correct - there is no mention of"documentary" - just that people are speaking of their experiences during the performance... you, ruski, are indeed a little devil.... in any case, my point is perhaps if you want to listen to the piece itself without any nasty interuptions you might try listening to a CD version - Gergiev or Haitink are good choices. Enjoy...
I actually am a teenager, so I do not consider that comment disrespectful or insulting. It really is just a ridiculous thing to say, surpassed only by the following sentence - "And Stavinsky is better than Britney Spears, right?" - which is purely abvious. Of course he is better than Britney Spears. It isn't difficult to maintain that level of musical standard.
I'm sorry Julzrulz06 - I was trying to demonstrate the ludicrous comparison between Bartok and Shostakovich - both geniuses.. and if you knew all of Shostakovich's work I am sure that you'd be so astounded and humbled by his genius that you'd feel no need to judge him so harshly at the alter of Bartok who is another great genius as is Stravinsky (maybe even more than Britney)... I knew you were a teenager which is why I was being seemingly condescending - I apologize.
In case you didn't realise (which I ams sure of), I was referring to Bartok's 4th Movement of his "Concerto for Orchestra" - a movement which actually parodies Shostakovich's work - he felt it unfairly popular during his time as it showed no musical genius and uncharacteristic nationalism - which actually killed the proper use of folk elements of music. I agree with his frustration - Shoshtakoivich's work is easily appreciated by those not so musical members of society, much like Britney's music
And Shostakovich himself admitted that he had taken the 7th Symphony's central idea of the build up and gradual crescendo of a repeated musical theme, led by a snare drum rhythm from Ravel's Bolero - which, of course, is far more popular than either the Bartok or the Shostakovich... but good ol' Ravel said that Bolero "is my only masterpiece - unfortunately it contains no music!"
This is not about Stalin, this is about fantastic heroism of common people, which cannot be met nowadays. If you have only 125 grams (some quarter pound) of bread a day (which is not actually a bread but some shitty clayish substance) and if that lasts for years. Just imagine that.
mishka28061 5 days ago
What? If Stalin was a murderer, as he was, then the NAZIS should not have been resisted for this? Then the mass (super mass murders of Hitler) were justified because Stalin killed?
Vhbaske 2 weeks ago
@Vhbaske your comment is a mess. Could you clarify what you mean?
BoojumMXX 6 days ago
Удивительно, но в условиях советского и нацистского тоталитарных режимов родились такие произведения искусства, которые по своей мощи и гениальности сопоставимы разве что с произведениями эпохи Ренессанса. Шостакович и Ахматова, Булгаков и Филонов, Эйзенштейн ( в СССР) и Рифеншталь (в Германии).
grafomanoff 3 weeks ago
мы не жили в то время и не знаем ситуации ни в стране ни в мире , а политики пишут историю , как им выгодно в политической карьере,а нас всех принимают за дебилов
novakauskiene 1 month ago in playlist Music: Shostakovich 1
I wonder why they omitted the sixth symphony in the documentary.
gregapage 2 months ago
Stalin is evil alien he killed Jesus and Kennadi also he made Obama black jew.
And the most horable Stalin killed 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Russians by himself and 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 of other nations
marat61 2 months ago
@marat61 asshole
clostermonk 6 days ago
@clostermonk
Hello my name is Marat nice to meet you asshole!
marat61 5 days ago
i can't watch.
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Stalin was a mass murderer worse than Hitler, this propaganda makes me sick. DSCH hated Stalin, this is just plain wrong.
AfroPoli 3 months ago
@AfroPoli Hitler wanted to raze Leningrad to the ground.
HHHPPP8 3 months ago
One of the most jaw-dropping moments in modern musical documentary:
When the black and white images of Shostakovich take over from the modern Gergiev performance of the slow movement and the musical intonation and pace are so well judged.
It makes me feel very small humble and grateful in the face of such an imagination as that of DSCH.
stenkarazin51 3 months ago 13
Qu'y a-t-il de plus beau pour commémorer cette tragédie ?
vince89130 4 months ago
If you like this master piece of Shostakovich as I do.... Read the William T Vollmann book Central Europa... Most part of his book do of Shostakovich one of his hero, and speak about his all work his history and his life... Even if a part of his book is fictional.... He done a dam good work about Shostakovich life
Jmichel4169 5 months ago
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gregmouse2609 5 months ago
LENINGRADSKA NO. 7
liberal1905 6 months ago
fuck off all of you who bringing politicis to this viewtiful music.... this music it isn´t dor the mass murderous liders of that time... was for the people, who had to fight the faccist armies of german... and ti suffer the red faccism of stalin...
don´t forget the americans to, who mass murder people in south america, filipinas, vietnam...
All these empires are the disease... peace, real freedom, education... are the cure.
gideon1984 6 months ago
@gideon1984 +100 I also сall all people commenting here to stop discuss here politics especially nothing understanding in it. Why people don't discuss the same or probably much more bloody tirant as Francisco Franco in Spain or Haji Muhammad Suharto in Indonezia or Augusto Pinochet in Chile? I can continue this list.. So stop talking about this, it has no any sence, trust me. It's better to look nowadays and ask ourself why we don't have such music genius as we had in not such far past..
executer1989 4 months ago
Я поражаюсь насколько мы далеки от всего этого, у нас тут на днях сирены проверяли, а я в инете искал началась война или слишком долгая проверка сирен.
Oleg111222333 7 months ago
@Oleg111222333 когда отключат свет на пол-часа, тогда начнеца следуюшая война :))
Rawego 5 months ago
@Oleg111222333 Как мы можем быть далеки от Великой Отечественной войны, если еще жива память о погибших в почти каждой семье бывшего СССР ( так как все республики посылали воинов)? Если забывается, то можно сходить на Пискаревское в Питере и послушать, прочитать строки из дневника Тани Савичевой. Такое нельзя забывать. Плохо, что забываете.....
SibiIrina1960 5 months ago 2
@jurijeuropa At least you admit it instead of saying you love everyone but want to just "criticize" others
xerxes876 8 months ago
Fantastic video!
12BarBob 8 months ago
STALIN!!!!!!!!! GREAT HERO!!!!!!
premiumfuel 8 months ago
@premiumfuel
How does murdering 60 million Russian civilians make Stalin a "hero"? Stalin was guilty of genocide. He was a Fascist mass murderer.
TheTollundWoman 8 months ago
@TheTollundWoman none of your books show any evidence for massmurder commited by the stasi your are as ridiculous as you are inbred. further proof for the fact that your father sired you with his sister is that you don't know who fritzl is. fritzl is the austrian guy who kept his daughter locked up in a bunker under his house and had several children with her. after several years they got released only recently. all you say is bla bla bla
johnmuie 7 months ago
@johnmuie
Just out of curiosity, comrade (sarcasm. sorry), why have you neglected to respond to my arguments with any counterpoints of you own? Why, instead of providing any evidence for your point, or explaining your own opinion, or having a rational discussion like an adult, do you immediately resort to random insults accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being "inbred"? You must not have any evidence to counter mine, otherwise you wouldn't be using such juvenile tactics.
TheTollundWoman 7 months ago
@johnmuie
I've cited my sources. lets see yours. No, Pravda doesn't count...
TheTollundWoman 7 months ago
@TheTollundWoman I like this figure to 60 million, but its nothing you rounded 58 million ... She was taken to propaganda Gebels .. I understand that you are at work and it's your job to lie, but could not you have enough conscience to not get involved in this video?
Oleg111222333 7 months ago
@Oleg111222333
Google translate never works, comrade.
TheTollundWoman 7 months ago
@TheTollundWoman
why are you so modest? 700000000000000000000000000000000 million Russians
dicthash 7 months ago
@dicthash
The statistic of 60 million deaths is a well-documented fact, read Solzhenitsyn, the world renowned historian and nobel laureate. your comment reflects a willful, callous denial of historical facts not unlike the sick comments of holocaust deniers who defend hitler. Shame.
TheTollundWoman 7 months ago
@TheTollundWoman
"read Solzhenitsyn" - here I stoped reading
dicthash 6 months ago
@dicthash
Never mind the fact that Solzhenitsyn is a world-renowned historian, author and Nobel Laureate. Never mind that he compiled the most extensive, thorough, objective historical account of the Soviet prison system (the GULag Archipelago) ever written to this very day. You can discount the objective facts and the historian who documented them, simply b/c your local party secretary told you to!
TheTollundWoman 6 months ago
@TheTollundWoman Solzhenitsin? In Italian carcer or also USa carcer can find a lot of more dramatic stories.
In his last time of life Solzhenitsin said the better Stalin time than the new one time.
alphomega99 4 months ago
сталин тут совершенно лишний
trupoed12 8 months ago
Thanks for this video!
Hail Russia, the last empire of the world, which won this war, despite everything, despite the communist, who failed to organize and murdered out the best people of the country before the war!
schukinofclm 8 months ago
Spasibo!
rebell222 9 months ago
European degenerated people! Please do no not comment thing you cannot understand at all. Just continue to chew your mac-grass. There are enough stupidity without you. Just "love" each other into the butts on gey parades! And leave normal peoples alone! Thanks!
helsinkionline 10 months ago
@helsinkionline probably you have no idea how right are you!!!!God bless you for your words!
etilvinil 10 months ago
Arguing about the difference between Communism and Fascism is about the same as arguing the difference between having a cancerous tumor in your left or right lung. They both kill.
rerhart585 10 months ago
that is really shostakovich voice? lol even his voice is nerdy
karoloandria 11 months ago
Смерть фашистской Европе
Korica4Kori 11 months ago
Destroy the Neo-Nazis!
silentsniperrr 11 months ago
Я люблю эмоции русских композиторов положить в их музыку.
Это так легко быть перемещены ею
BraziJiJi 11 months ago
классный клип, замечательная музыка...и гергиев один из самых хороших руководителей в мире по-моему
talia0anna 1 year ago
In the end they mean 'Nothing could stop the SOVIET UNION " "NOTHING COULD STOP SOVIET PROLETARIAN CULTURE " ...nothing could stop us .
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PEOPLES OF EUROPE RISE UP
VIVA COMMUNISM Greece
gream21 1 year ago
@gream21: TO THE CONTRARY!!!! Communism = Fascism = Islâm = Nazism - and ALL ARE EVIL!!!!
Death to ALL totalitarianism, Communism included!!!!!
LJBSasha 11 months ago
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gream21 1 year ago
В мирное время такую симфонию сочинить не получилось бы...
wrabota 1 year ago 5
Less inventing history and more applauding this music
drummerponsi 1 year ago 6
'bandit hordes'?
He was an artist not a OW player.
LOL
LouisGWu 1 year ago
'bandit hordes'?
He was an atist not a OW player.
LOL
LouisGWu 1 year ago
The Russians really did save the world in WW2. Without Russia the Germans would have surely won. THANK YOU RUSSIA
TheDavid2222 1 year ago 17
@TheDavid2222 that's kind of a pointless argument. without britain the war would've been lost. without america the war would've been lost. without france...well...fuck france. they suck (jk).
stendulker2 1 year ago 2
@stendulker2 True, but the russians suffered the most and had to face the most opposition.
TheDavid2222 1 year ago 4
@TheDavid2222: Let's put it this way, America supplied much of the weaponry as well as a lot of supplies of the nature of food and ammunition, Russia supplied the manpower and the passion (born out of being threatened for her very existence as a people!), Britain and her Commonwealth (and specifically Winston Spencer Churchill!!!) the initial resolve to fight Nazi Germany without mercy to the end. ALL were necessary for the war to be successfully fought to its conclusion!!
LJBSasha 10 months ago
@TheDavid2222 Without Adolf the Germans would have surely won.
missourirulez 1 year ago
@missourirulez I agree--he was the worst 'general leader' of all time--thank gad, right??
windstorm1000 11 months ago
@TheDavid2222
And thank you for the Goelags, Stalin, CCCP and even more deaths?
I don't think so, good they have beaten the Nazi's, but not 'thank you russia' for me, thank you soldiers who gave their lives and were forced to fight. But not thank you Russia.
MaCJhonGard 10 months ago
@MaCJhonGard okay. I would have to agree with you on that one. I forgot just how many atrocities the Russian's commited during WW2.
TheDavid2222 10 months ago
Я горжусь, что живу в ороде, где Д.Шостокович написал эту гениальную симфонию!
irina4481 1 year ago 3
Я горжусь, что живу в ороде, где Д.Шостович написал эту гениальную симфонию!
irina4481 1 year ago 2
The piece heard at the beginning of this video is the Sixth Symphony, first movement.
itoski67 1 year ago
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DynaDash 1 year ago
Thanks my dear friend for having posted this. !
Igor340 1 year ago
majstersztyk!
trawamaciej 1 year ago
Wonderful! Sad but looks strenght...comunism is forever! nazi-facism desapear! Go ahead Russia! Long Live to Soviet Union!
zeroka21 1 year ago
@zeroka21: HOW DARE YOU PRAISE COMMUNISM?!?!
It was just as genocidal, murderous and EVIL as Nazism and Fascism: Communism and Nazism/Fascism are two sides of the same coin!!! Under Ljéñin and Stáljin, 40,000,000 people perished IN PEACETIME!!!
PLEASE: do your research...
LJBSasha 1 year ago
@zeroka21 How about democracy??? You have more rights, my dear! Try freedom out for size and you'll never go back to Joe Stalin and his goons.
windstorm1000 11 months ago
Класс..сросибо
fabricks01 1 year ago
For people more knowledgeable about Shostakovich, which movement of his 7th Symphony is the part from about 1:33-where Shostakovich. I listened to a bit of movement one "Leningrad" and didn't find it there.
BloggerMusicMan 1 year ago
@BloggerMusicMan: The passage in question is from the THIRD movement of that same symphony.
While we're at it, the music of the first 90 seconds is drawn not from the 7th Symphony but from the 1st movement of the same composer's SIXTH Symphony.
[In case I'm wrong in the least in this posting, I must point out that it's only as of yesterday and today that I've been really getting to know these masterworks - thanks, yakovsmirnov55, for posting this video-clip (taken from a larger video?)!!
LJBSasha 1 year ago
Класс 5:40
ArthusfromBelarus 1 year ago
Folks have this tendency to discuss politics and history in these posts due to Dmitri's connection with the Communist Party and his personal experiences, etc.. When it seems infinitely more appropriate to honor his fabulous music by discussing tempo changes, key changes, and all that jazz. To wit: a person could spend the rest of his or her natural life hypothesizing about the 4th symphony's inner logic. Let's see that kind of musicological pontification for a change! Here, here.
BrucknerMotet 1 year ago
The Soviets Union was just a culpable for WWII as Germany. The war started when Stalin and Poland carved up Poland in 1939.
billybill56 1 year ago
The main problem the west had with Hitler was that Germany had no common border with the USSR. Chamberlin fixed that by giving Hitler Czeckoslovakia. That was called apeasement, but it was also the plan, and Stalin knew it.
alejoeisabel 1 year ago
@billybill56 germany killed jews because the media neglected germany in thh great depression robbing germany of millions of dollars in the great depression thats equivalent to these bailouts. nazi's are labled murderers because of it. the USA stretches from NY to CA because Americans MURDERD NATIVE AMERICANS and the USA is called LAND OF THE FREE.
hereHehereHE 1 year ago
@hereHehereHE It was Germany's fault. If they had not started the first world war they would not have suffered afterwards and especially during the great depression. They tried to blame it on others - Jews especially. As regards the native Americans, this part of history occurred during the discovery of new lands. There were no cities as we know them. The Indians roamed free over a great mass of land. It was a completely different situation to the Germans, who plundered and murdered.
hnk777 1 year ago 3
@hnk777 WW1 was started by Serbia for assasinating FF.
the jews own the media and started ww2 and play the innocent card your a dumbass native americans are people weather or not they lived in cities lol stupid fuck
hereHehereHE 1 year ago
@hereHehereHE we own the media good wheres my cut?
Elchingonthegreat 1 year ago
@hereHehereHE: ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!!! Austria-Hungary deliberately sent Franz-Ferdinand von Habsburg to get killed in Sarájevo, in the teeth of strong advice and repeated warnings against his doing so - and he himself didn't want to go!!! However, the government was hoping for him to be killed so they would have their 'casus belli' so they'd have a 'brief' war and that way annex Serbia to the Austro-Hungarian Empire!! In the process, the Emperor Franz Joseph would be rid of a nephew he had
LJBSasha 10 months ago
NEVER either forgotten or forgiven for insisting on marrying the Countess Sophia Chotek (below supposed Habsburg 'station', so that their offspring would be ineligible for the Imperial Throne).
When both Franz-Ferdinand von Habsburg and Sophia von Hohenberg-Chotek were murdered in Sarájevo, Franz Joseph proved his hatred and contempt of that couple by giving them the minimum possible obsequies, even in the teeth of protests by the Austro-Hungarian nobility and the Viennese people.
LJBSasha 10 months ago
This timeless grandiose and chilling masterpiece sends shivers down my spine. For a Russian, whose family members both died on the front and suffered through the WW2 hunger, this music brings memories of the survivors and brings tears to my eyes. When I imagine how the symphony was played by starved Leningrad musicians during the German onslaught - it's heartbreaking and so moving. This music captures the horrors of the war, the suffering, the spirit and strength of the Russian people.
HannaB555 1 year ago 10
@HannaB555 Yes, but also remember that the USSR was as bad as Nazi Germany---Stalin fed his own people to the wolves in a way. A very bad place to be--and the Russian people somehow survived these monstrosities--but did they do so with their psyches intact?? AS I look in today's headlines--NO.
windstorm1000 11 months ago
@windstorm1000 Well done for your intelligent and very astute comment, dear. What I like most about it is how well-read and well-informed you obviously are and that you do not at all generalise. As for building your knowledge of history and sociology on media headlines - that's fantastic. In fact, reading your wise words I am amazed by your wisdom. I wish you well.
HannaB555 11 months ago
@HannaB555 U are being sarcastic--not nice. My comment IS a generlization--but a fairly accurate one. In this medium there is no room for point by point. Without going to the country---& I admit that is a negative--I try to be as well read as possible, talk to Russians--whether is a gen. view, of that I am guilty. But millions did die there, & many injustices aganst gen. segments of pop.'s still exist--gays, anyone w a dissent outlook. There ARE exceptions. Inform us, o cultural oracle.
windstorm1000 11 months ago
go to the hell brainwashed kid, USSR is not as bad as the your US spreading shit across the Earth
dont judge about USSR from fuckin western media driven by ideas persons like Brzezinski...
serkyl 11 months ago
@serkyl Ok, here we go people--I write a reasonable post & I'm rewarded by this goon rage instead of an intelligent rebuttal. Our western media, comrade, affords us much more freedom than Russia. There are good people in Russia--BUT we see YT clips of goons beating up gays in Moscow, Putin's youth squad threatening to kill liberals!! That's normal??? Democracy is on the run in Russia--you still have to watch your back. What fairy tale do you live in? Baba yaga??
windstorm1000 11 months ago 2
@windstorm1000 ...and they are right - no sodomy in Russia,
liberals make me sick, they are sort of prostitutes....or minions of international tycoons and dont tell me about freedom which you get from western media...you get feelings of 'freedom' but you much more slave of capitalism system
serkyl 11 months ago
@serkyl You realize "sodomy" also includes oral sex, right? It's not just anal. And it can ALSO be male-female, not just same-sex. So, unless you're going around beating every guy who has ever gotten a blowjob from a girl, or tried anal with a girl, your claims of keeping sodomy out of Russia are just horseshit excuses to hide homophobic bigotry. The bigoted scum here have religion to blame for it, what the fuck's your excuse?
Don't talk about freedom while trying to justify harming someone.
ThazuaBlackarrow 3 months ago
@serkyl You're as hypocritical as the capitalist pigs you hate oh so much!
ThazuaBlackarrow 3 months ago
@HannaB555 I read your post & I really feel for what happened to your family So,why, then did you slam my post stating some of the horrors in Russian history? I did see the BBC series on Leningrad for what its worth. Unbelievable images. No doubt the Russian people suffereed beyond our understanding. I think there needs to be more forums between US and Russian people to clear up misunderstandings. I just look at YT clips of Putin's youth (Hitlers'??) beating up gays/liberals--Well?????
windstorm1000 11 months ago 2
Excelent!
ruuubik 2 years ago 4
paduaprs 2 years ago 52
@paduaprs Жму руку, товарищ!
MsOdissei 1 year ago
RIP
alostera 2 years ago 4
endless proud!
gwozdezzz 2 years ago 5
Viva la Sovietico....es lebe soviet union....yasasin soyvetler birligi
solucan55 2 years ago
in case you dont know, the soviet union exists no more.
warriorsoul28 1 year ago
thnx for the vid.
routeoz 2 years ago 2
This title is misleading. Up to 1:33 this is Shostakovich´s 6 th not 7 th.
rrosfel 2 years ago 8
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rrosfel 2 years ago
Heoric stuff! What other composer in history had such a horrendous backdrop as their canvas?
mnbv990 2 years ago 2
buen video
tommyPuc 2 years ago
Many Thanks for this video!
grummeper 2 years ago 3
Пока по нашей земле ползают синхеды и им подобные-мира не будет!Не заслужили мы это-го!
vlasema 2 years ago 7
Thank you for posting this. We cannot allow ourselves to forget.
mammaconlee 2 years ago 9
If it haven't been for Stalin, Schostakovich would probalbly not be that troubled, and he might have been at better health.
otoevst 2 years ago 2
@otoevst THAT is an understatement!!!!
windstorm1000 11 months ago 2
That's really Stain's voice, isn't it?
He sounds very insecure, which he was at that time I once read.
hoffbill 2 years ago
Yes,its his.
Cossakfreedon 2 years ago
The only shameful thing in this great video is Stalin, yes, that one who was about to do Shostakovich the same as he did with Meyerhold after a Lady Macbeth of Menstk performance...
Amatherasu1789 2 years ago
I take that back, I guess only the beginning is from the sixth symphony.
RANDOMNAMEISRANDOMQQ 2 years ago
This is his sixth symphony...
RANDOMNAMEISRANDOMQQ 2 years ago
Still, seventh, the slow part
wilkpaul 2 years ago
God bless Leningrad..
adamlovestrombone 2 years ago 49
we remember, pride, grief.
помним,гордимся,скорбим
ellia4989 2 years ago 8
What a great heroic deed! We shall never forget it!!!
facellina 2 years ago 5
Marsz imperialistyczny z tej symfonii mogę słuchać na okrągło. Jest tysiąc razy lepszy pod każdym względem, niż oparte na tym samym pomyśle Bolero Ravela. Swoją drogą ile ten naród przeszedł. Boże...
przytrafka1970 2 years ago 2
Does anyone know what documentary this clip is from? It seems wonderful-- I'd love to know so I could find and watch the rest of it.
cardy298 2 years ago
It's a wonderful Emmy Award-winning documentary called "The War Symphonies": Shostakovich Against Stalin" and is, I believe easily ordered on Amazon...
SeptSongs 2 years ago
simply search 'the war symphonies' on youtube. alot of it is in russian though, and the subtitles are in spanish, which is why i came to this video...
cutefidgety 2 years ago
"the war symphonies"
cutefidgety 2 years ago 2
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wait, didn't socialist orchestras perform without conductors?
secretsofseverus 2 years ago
no. it was a trial in the 30's or 40's I belive. A single 'peoples orchestra'
cronos1102 2 years ago
I can't believe Shostakovich even made it this far despite his oppositions w/the Soviet government. Still they got him in some way anyway... a lot of his work and pieces were banned & destroyed. How suppressing & humiliating
wrtback 2 years ago
Ok, so Stalin helped lead Russia through WWII, but that doesn't excuse him as the tyrant he was. Hitler was evil, but that doesn't mean you can contrast Stalin to that. He killed thousands for not joining his party, and so forth. It's like shooting someone becasue they don't want to come in your tree house. They were two bads fighting one another, but that doesn't make one good per say.
Shankovich 3 years ago 2
not thousands, Stalin killed 7 milloin kullacs and also milloins starved to death in Hungary
albertbauli 3 years ago
sorry, I meant to say millions
Shankovich 3 years ago
To be correct, you can not place Hitler and Stalin in the same "two bads" category; there were different bads. Stalin never brainwashed his people to think they are top breed of race, while other nations had to be slaves, castrated or killed right away and made into soap or raw material for nazis' gloves and purses.
You just can not compare; not even close.
Solyahoff 2 years ago 2
You cannot compare of course, but that doesn't mean Stailn was not "as bad". Obviously Hitler was the worst, but Stailn was still a tyrant. It was terrible to live under either leader.
Shankovich 2 years ago 3
I'm sorry to break into a conversation, but don't you think that the history and the personality are too difficult just to blame them "bad" or "good"? And I don(t know your background, but, obviously, you couldn't live in the Stalin's time. I should say that people were happy (those who was alive, of course).
OlgittaBell 2 years ago 3
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Shankovich 2 years ago
Definitely not. My grandmother fought as a gurilla warrior durring WWII at 16 years old. She lived in central Europe, not Russia. The stories I've heard are...bad, and those come form a country that was influenced...I couldn't even imagine the source country...
Shankovich 2 years ago
Again, Stalin was bad different way. It differs even here: if you were a German, your life under Hitler was good (basically before full-fledged war with USSR started). Under Stalin, many lived in fear; though most people never heard of anything horrible about GULAGs and repressions, even though it may seem now that everybody knew and feared.
Solyahoff 2 years ago 6
indeed you can't.stalin's legacy lives still while the nazis are pretty much dead:) plus there's the body count.around 6mil for hitler and 25 for stalin.
BanarBogdan 2 years ago
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Great composer,but it's too bad Stalin, the greatest evil man has ever known, didn't perish. May Stalin rot, and long live Deutschland!!!
Skorzeny40 3 years ago
Oops, tell this to the Jews that your Hitler was so good, they will send Mossad in to execute you.
MadMaxUSSR 3 years ago 4
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Ha-ha-ha!!! Great proposal!!! You are fun!
facellina 2 years ago
A symphony dedicated to the City of Leningrad and the great hero soldier who stood alone against superior odds, the great and humble leader Josef Stalin.
swanningaround 3 years ago
lol
noahnz 3 years ago 4
The great people of Russia and Sankt Petersburg inc. DDS himself.
Not Stalin the butcher and murderer who killed more of his own people than the Germans the animal. Had he not purged the Army and people like Tuchakevsky a friend of DDS the Germans would not have advanced as far as they did initially.
Stalin and Hitler rot in hell.
takharov 3 years ago 8
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How can you say this? In the history of Russia, the people repeatedly proclaimed Josef Stalin as a Hero of Socialist Labor, and the Saviour of millions of people. Young women wept at his funeral.
swanningaround 3 years ago
i hope they will never come back
AndrielYT 2 years ago 3
If you are looking for a great rendition of the 7h, you may want to listen to Leonard Bernstein and CSO, 1989.
xram18 3 years ago
This is his 6 symphony, the first part.
Aleksiroea 3 years ago
I take it this would be a good backing track for a documentary about the 1905 Revolution?
kaidi456 3 years ago
WTF? It's about Leningrad in WW2 you fuckin idiot! Way after The Revolution.
I agree with the guy below; the title's misleading. I thoughly enjoyed nonetheless. Thanks for posting.
gregapage 3 years ago
At least I can spell 'thoroughly' lol
kaidi456 3 years ago
Indeed. Sorry about that. I felt in a prickish mood at the time.
gregapage 3 years ago
"Officially" speaking, Shostakovich's 11th Symphony is about the 1905 Revolution.
Shostakovich actually dedicated the Eleventh Symphony to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, but there is no way that would have flown with the Stalinist authorities. So he "officially" made the symphony about 1905.
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Kill yourself.
psychologicalshock 3 years ago
very interesting
OriginalMoonbeam 3 years ago 2
It is wonderful - I want to see it all!
smodoh 3 years ago
Beautiful, although I wish I could listen to it without the talking in between and sound effects, I'll watch a documentary if I wanted for that.
devilruski 3 years ago
why are you on youtube watching a documentary excerpt while wishing you were listening to a CD when you could instead be listening to a CD instead of watching a great documentary?
SeptSongs 3 years ago
I'm just trying to listen to the song,I didn't say anything about a CD, it doesn't say Shostakovich Documentary it just says Shostakovich 7th Symphony,so it's easy to assume that it was just the song, the info doesn't even say its a documentary.
devilruski 3 years ago
Sorry, but if you press the underlined "more info" on the right, you'll discover that it must be part of a documentary... in fact, that film is the Emmy-winning "The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin" and there are many other excerpts of it on YouTube...
The description:
Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of Leningrad describe the first performance of this great symphony
SeptSongs 3 years ago
No it doesnt, I don't see the word documentary there it says
"Valery Gergiev conducts Shostakovich's 7th Symphony which salutes the sacrifices made during the Great Patriotic War as survivors of the Siege of Leningrad describe the first performance of this great symphony "
Doesnt say documentary
devilruski 3 years ago
My goodness - technically you are correct - there is no mention of"documentary" - just that people are speaking of their experiences during the performance... you, ruski, are indeed a little devil.... in any case, my point is perhaps if you want to listen to the piece itself without any nasty interuptions you might try listening to a CD version - Gergiev or Haitink are good choices. Enjoy...
SeptSongs 3 years ago
This music and the Leningrad seige cannot be separated...
MadMaxUSSR 3 years ago 4
Fan of W. Vollman?
offbdway 3 years ago
I once made a film called "King Purnellius" - you should have a look at it, it's on Youtube.
Julzrulz06 3 years ago
It's superb... my film is on Youtube too....
SeptSongs 3 years ago
Bela Bartok is much better.
Julzrulz06 3 years ago
That is such a teenager thing to say...
And Stravinsky is better than Britney Spears, right?
SeptSongs 3 years ago
I actually am a teenager, so I do not consider that comment disrespectful or insulting. It really is just a ridiculous thing to say, surpassed only by the following sentence - "And Stavinsky is better than Britney Spears, right?" - which is purely abvious. Of course he is better than Britney Spears. It isn't difficult to maintain that level of musical standard.
Julzrulz06 3 years ago
I'm sorry Julzrulz06 - I was trying to demonstrate the ludicrous comparison between Bartok and Shostakovich - both geniuses.. and if you knew all of Shostakovich's work I am sure that you'd be so astounded and humbled by his genius that you'd feel no need to judge him so harshly at the alter of Bartok who is another great genius as is Stravinsky (maybe even more than Britney)... I knew you were a teenager which is why I was being seemingly condescending - I apologize.
SeptSongs 3 years ago
In case you didn't realise (which I ams sure of), I was referring to Bartok's 4th Movement of his "Concerto for Orchestra" - a movement which actually parodies Shostakovich's work - he felt it unfairly popular during his time as it showed no musical genius and uncharacteristic nationalism - which actually killed the proper use of folk elements of music. I agree with his frustration - Shoshtakoivich's work is easily appreciated by those not so musical members of society, much like Britney's music
Julzrulz06 3 years ago
And Shostakovich himself admitted that he had taken the 7th Symphony's central idea of the build up and gradual crescendo of a repeated musical theme, led by a snare drum rhythm from Ravel's Bolero - which, of course, is far more popular than either the Bartok or the Shostakovich... but good ol' Ravel said that Bolero "is my only masterpiece - unfortunately it contains no music!"
SeptSongs 3 years ago