Zhuravli (The White Cranes). Dmitri Khvorostovsky

[sainoglou]

DON'T FORGET THIS WOMEN.

THIS WOMEN ALWAYS IS THE MUMS, THE DAUGHTERS AND THE WIFE OF ALL THE WORLD'S PEOPLE.

LOVE AND RESPECT FROM GREECE.

[nickstout513]

This vid went viral on Oman

[03Srbija]

Boze oprosti, Sloboda Rusima i Srbima.... Bracja za uvjek.. CCCC CCCP

[pericles733]

what a song for such a great sacrifice of the soldiers of the red army. every time we hear the song we must remember that their life was given for the most peaceful society humanity has ever dreamed.

[MrIHateKORN]

the drop in this blew up my speakers.

[HomoCallidus]

translation is rubbish

[MadPyrotechnicus]

I'm just a humble citizen of Flanders but I seriously cried listening to this song. May our people have the same strength that the Russian's have since the last 2 centuries so that we may be independant!

[ComNorton]

Ёперный театр, ну это же чисто мужская песня! Нафига такой видеоря?. Да, женщины участвовали в той великой войне. Но это не их песня!

[ddthienvuong]

Who can be the 2 people who disliked the song?, I can't think of a reason to dislike it! it's not a propaganda song so I think even a NAZI or capitalist don't have a reason to hate it too.

[ddthienvuong]

may god bless the fallen men of that damned WWII.

[whitedogsrule]

My mother's favourite song; it reminded her of the three children she lost during the war, my brothers and sister I never knew.

I cannot even now hear it without crying.

Thank you for putting up Dima's version.

People need to be reminded that women, girls really, like the one at 2:47, gave and lost so much to save Russia and, by extension, the freedom of the world. Their innocence was sacrificed for a higher cause and we must never forget that gift from them.

Thank you again.

[trunikov]

какие одухотворенные и жизнерадостные лица у наших предков.

[operalament]

OH MY GOD , HEARTBREAKING!

[IslamRussia]

It sometimes seemed to me that the soldiers,

Who didn’t return from bloody fields,

Didn’t lie down into our ground

But turned into white cranes.

And they are flying and are screaming their voices to us now

And they do it from that old time.

May be it is the reason why we often stop talking ruefully

When we look in sky

[Ivan1the]

Lilia Litviak, fighter pilot, last photo from Stalingrad

[alexsimful]

Великие люди, Великая История! Лью слёзы За Нашу Страну! За РОССИЮ, за наше Счастье!!!

[lucabrasi074]

LONG LIVE CCCP

[yurtaevi]

the lyrics, specially the melody are great, no one can beat old Soviet songs, they are simply great at all levels.

[Verokukla]

Спасибо, всем кто боролся за чистое небо, за свободу нашей Родины и всего мира. Преклоняюсь перед Вами....

[jennifera0310]

Russkue jenshini oni vilikie...i ochen' ynie...dai box imzdravia>>>>>

[dilyadavid]

VIVA USSR USSR USSR HEROES!

[Jenettt]

Моей бабушке скоро 86...Она плохо себя чувствует, проблемы с дыханием, на таблеиках всё время...Я не знаю что буду без неё делать, я её так люблю...

[usmc1div]

beautiful,  thank you...

[TheRusBiker]

Russian heroes - Viva!

[Ashtonian54]

NKVD hurt my rodina comrade Vostorgina01. It goes both ways.

It's always the worker that ends up paying.

Thank God that nationalism has been replaced by consumerism.

A beautiful song,sad for all the fallen. I might have been born anywhere but as soon as I was cognizant I understood that we were all one. One day the world will come to understand.

[alikisssa]

This is my translation of the song's lyrics

[alikisssa]

Sometimes I dream of all these perished soldiers,

Who came not home from bloody battlefields,

They had not laid to rest in their native soil,

They turned into white cranes in distant skies.

[alikisssa]

From old the times till now days, while flying,

They call to us, for memories they cry,

That's why we humans, sorrowfully and often,

We just keep silence, staring into skies.

[alikisssa]

In heaven, the flocks flying, worn and weary,

In misty sundown, theyre keeping their flight.

Within this row I couldve seen a small gap,

This spot is left for me, it might be right.

[alikisssa]

The day shall come, and with White Cranes together,

I will be floating, in the haze of blue.

And from the skies, bird-like, I will be calling,

To all of you, of whom I ever knew.

[SovietSongsInEnglish]

(2) A wedge of cranes is fading in the distance

So far away I can no longer see

When I run out of days of my existence

I hope those cranes will find a gap for me

That I may soar above my pain and anguish

And join their ranks as many years ago

Recalling all their names in my new language

And names of those whom I have left below.

[SovietSongsInEnglish]

(1) This is my translation of this song:

Sometimes it seems to me each fallen soldier

That never came back home from fields of gore

In fact did never perish, as they told you,

But turned into a crane as white as snow

And ever since those days in their due season

Weve seen them soaring high across the sky

With distant voices giving us a reason

To stand in tears and watch them flying by

[Zaidmolina]

the world can never thank  enough the red army without them and their great sacrifices we would be all dead or speaking german being slaves of the reich

[lilicurici]

extraordinar!bravoooooo!

[PARVEENAAM]

Namaskaar Dear Vostorgina01

A very great song, even i don't understand russian.

Greetings from India/Surianme

[atmaaga]

i'm yust crying... BOLSHOE SPASIBO DIMITRY!!!

[delta100]

Ha!... Que c'est émouvant. Très bel hommage!

[pgruet]

Très très beau !!!!

[antoniodigigov]

lindo,muito lindo este video.

ensina ao mundo quem são os russos na realidade e mostra um sentimento de orgulho incomparavel.

 vivam para sempre os herois !!!!!

[MaoiMeowi2]

Great song. The Soviet Union/Russia seemed/seems to have more respect for their soldiers.

Some here would say that Soviet/Russian officers abuse/d recruits. Well, here, kids used to be beaten in school for not getting the alphabet right when they were just learning. Here, black people were hung just because they were black. So why is it so bad that army recruits are beaten when it toughens them up for war, when they themselves are meant to be killers?

[Vostorgina01]

How do you say "thank you?" Never forget what they did for the rodina... reflect on the fact that there are those who hate the rodina today as much as the Fascists did. That is, the Galician and Balt nationalists and their US paymaster (hmm... the first two were friends of the fascists too, weren't they... a dog doesn't change his spots, I say!).

Next 9 May... lay a flower at the memorial, say a prayer, and REMEMBER. God shall bless you for it.

r. b. Vostorgina

[marmaloon]

I find this song to be very honourable and dignified - a beautiful gesture! Bravo! :)

[IrishRangersRule]

I accidently hit thumbs down on that sorry :(

[sportsnut712001]

А я увидела Зоя от книга "Повесть для Зоя и Шурий". А об них нет собственной клип сдесь???

[brmu5068]

beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!

[LEOPARDTWO]

*****.

[antoniodigigov]

i love the fothos about our grandmothers,

i love you and your video,

RUSSIA FOREVER

[gorthorki]

make children, or Chechens will overwhelm you

[vetermgla]

@antoniodigigov U S S R, debill!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pispapoi]

Beatiful, very, very beatiful, nice.

Kaunista musiikkia, fantastisen kaunista surumielisyydessäänkin.

[rossviktor]

молодец Димка! не хочу а слезы сами наворачиваются

[LEOPARDTWO]

Ochen Pyechalna!

[SadronAphaderuiondur]

Thinking of those who fell back than and those who still fall nowadays in the blood-soaked battlefields, see their faces and think of the void caused by their loss makes me come close to tears. I have no doubts this is the most beautiful war song I've ever heard! And I've heard to many great war songs. But this one brings lirically the sadness of the loss like only a few do.

[Ankhsnammon]

unique!

THIS IS THE kHVOROSTOVSKY i LOVE.

THE REAL KHVOROSTOVSKY!!!

GREAT VIDEO...I CAN'T STOP MY TEARS...

[Vostorgina01]

It is available on the CD "Where are You Now, My Brothers".

r. b. Vostorgina01

[nutrafin87]

Спасибо

[rvronsky]

Yes, but please don't forget the first ever to sing this, the incomparable Mark Bernes. To my mind he's the finest interpreter of all of this wonderful song.

[Vostorgina01]

Indeed! I agree emphatically. It is on You-Tube. I posted a link to it on my website. Mr Bernes is one of my faves. I love the way he sang Ya lyublyu tebya zhizn! Another great song!

r. b. Vostorgina

[squabbler123]

Hvorostovsky is incredible. DAMN, I love this voice.

Thanks for your work, Vostorgina.

[danilovsky22]

HONOR RUSSIAN HEROES!

[Paladin1441]

Oh the Night Witches, its about time someone honored those brave women, they earned it!

[LJOUWERD]

This guy also has a CD of popular Russian songs from the second world war. Very fine.

[1952410]

Does anyone have the english text of this beautiful song to post here? Thanks.

[Vostorgina01]

I posted the translation of the text in the description. I CANNOT do this for EVERY video, please!

Vostorgina01

[1952410]

I am very sorry, Vostorgina. It was an absentmind of me.

[Vostorgina01]

Why be sorry? I can do it occasionally, but, not for EVERY video. No one has that sort of time. Lighten up... smile... I am NOT angry!

Vostorgina01 (are you OK, now?)

[1952410]

Very well. And happy too for the oportunity of enjoying your videos. No grounds for being upset, indeed.

[bellelunabelle]

I have read the English translation done by some Korean.

This is very sad song that I didn't know the meaning until then.

It is very beautiful song.

[Longliveputin122]

К сожалению, я им только красные книги о них

[tilakmadawela]

yes this is indeed a fitting tribute to all those fallen. Very moving

[Longliveputin122]

stalins "female falcons"

[Vostorgina01]

NO!

RUSSIA'S "Female Falcons"! Stalin deserves no credit. He was a mass murderer (per the Medvedevs, Solzhenitsyn, Khrushchev, Conquest, and Applebaum), a man whose hands were immersed in the blood of innocent Russians (including communists, by the way!)

[markbradleyf1]

Wonderful video, thank you XXX

[khuderee021]

IT S REALY FAVOURITY SNG WW2..

[1952410]

How beautiful, sentimental...The faces on the pictures... many, probably most are not here anymore. But the heroic, the brave soviet fighters won their place in the History.Magnificent video.

[Vostorgina01]

I worked on my image library for a year before I started posting videos. A great deal of work, let me assure you!

raba bozhiya Vostorgina

[NarodnieMstiteli]

You're right. That is beautiful!

Narodnie