Levellers - Belaruse

promo video to this single release from 1993

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Music

Tags:

• Levellers
• Belarus
• folk-punk

[Pyroman1990]

Really nice version, bit different to the one on the One Way 1998 hits album. Its actually spelt Belarus though

[KrilaSounds]

@Pyroman1990 - was it spelt "Belarus" on the One Way album? I thought they always spelt it BelaRUSE because they wanted to point out the deception behind the Chornobyl (Ukrainian spelling!) nuclear accident, which affected 98% of Belarus.

[CrackedPleasures]

@KrilaSounds As far as I know the title has always been Belaruse. A wordplay indeed because the country is actually named Belarus. The song indeed is about the Chernobyl accident, Chernobyl which the Ukrainian government now wants to turn into a tourist hotspot, believing it is "safe enough for mass tourism". Bit shameless IMO... I think the nostalgic "Remember all your yesterdays" in a way sounds quite justified as well when looking at the current political situation in Belarus.

[KrilaSounds]

@CrackedPleasures - some tour operators like TourKiev.com have long since started to run tourist trips to Pripyat and Chornobyl. They say it's safe, but Greenpeace has pointed out that radioactivity isn't stationary. It moves within the exclusion zone and those hotspots are a leathal dose if exposed to it. Some elderly people have moved back into the exclusion zone. These are mostly folks who were affected by the disaster and had been moved to a city outside the zone.

[KrilaSounds]

@CrackedPleasures - cont'd: This city wasn't remote enough and radioactivity was still killing the residents, just more slowly. The Chernobyl graveyard of radioactive vehicles has long since been ransacked and the equipment sold by destitute people. Pripyat river runs into the Dniper, where people fish to subsidise their meager income.

Belarus' ground water was contaminated, carrying the radioactivity throughout the country. 95% of Belarus is contaminated and the cancer rate is high.

[philquinton]

posh boys cant even spell it right

[KrilaSounds]

I think they wanted the word Ruse in the name - White Ruse = Whitewash?!

[jOSullivan3]

this is one of thier best in my opinion, although everyone always slags it off

[benbowtheturd]

Ye dont run live experiments on nuculear power plants when the safety over ride has be diabled. Then the technicians were blamed - chief techy hit the safety over ride cooling switch, but higher authorities had cancelled it. He still lived for 2~3 days after it. His skin fell off his legs like "trousers coming down" and they still blamed the poor guy. They didn't evacuate Prypiat for days so as not to "scare monger". Sick

[CrackedPleasures]

@benbowtheturd Currently the Ukrainian government is looking for tour operators to turn Chernobyl into a tourist destination. They believe the radioactivity levels are allowing tourism on mass scale right now. It sounds like cashing in on a huge drama to me... Prypiat is a ghost town. Other than the radioactivity pretty much all buildings are close to collapsing. Odd is that some people actually settled there (squatters and a few people who originated from the area) despite the health risks.

[Pyroman1990]

@philquinton I wouldnt have said The Levellers were posh lol .

[GoldfinchGarden]

Great Song

[Pyroman1990]

Some of Ford escort vans and trannies are made here!n Awesome song too, love the chorus

[krazykittykat100]

@aliencheesemaker The best one with them preforming is Exodus. That's got clips of an actual live performance interspersed with protest footage. Very good idea for a vid.