Alexander Nevsky: The Field Of Death

Music composed by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev. Irina Gelahova, Dmitry Yablonsky; Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Stanislavsky Chorus

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• classical
• Alexander
• Nevsky:
• The
• Field
• Of
• Death
• Music
• composed
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• Sergei
• Sergeyevich
• Prokofiev.
• Irina
• Gelahova
• Dmitry
• Yablonsky;
• Russian
• State
• Symphony
• Orchestra
• Stanislavsky
• Chorus

[jnsii]

The Russian people have experience brutality and death on a scale unimaginable by most Westerners today. Yet in their music is a depth, a transcendence, that holds an incomprehensible but comforting salvation. Dostoyevsky understood this fact, but even he failed to fully articulate it.

[P1B1U1H1]

What always amazes is how Prokofiev predicted the immense suffering that the Nazi invasion would bring. Words can never express what Russia went through because of that war. The cruelty of the preceding decade was most likely in part a preparation for it. The Ukraine was aligned with the Nazi's in the 1920's. We can hate Stalin, but it was his industrial revolution that made the Russians prevail.

[proudaltome]

My comments on other pages of this music stream refer solely to the facts of the past. The truth is, nationalism makes wars happen, and wars are costly beyond all calculation. If humankind doesn't stop fighting over "us and them and devil take the hindmost" there'll be no YouTube, no Internet, and no people left to listen to anything, anywhere.

[P1B1U1H1]

@gaspersb Study carefully the military history of WW2, more important than the "spirit" of the Russian people, the rise of the Nazis/communists, the Holocaust, or the Cold War. All else either eventuates in or stems from WW2 military history.

[gaspersb]

@P1B1U1H1

Oh, but those are human achievements. And anything Stalin did was politics, not strategy. And anything the Russian military did to win was again, an achievement of the Russian people and not Stalin's regime or actions.

[P1B1U1H1]

@gaspersb I'm a US citizen who thought like you once. Understand Nazis intended to kill 90% of the Slavs, making the rest slaves. Russians were like most people; the oft cruel hand of government created willingness to sacrifice life. Avoid undervaluing Russian military strategy: 1) Stalin made a truce with Japan to bring in the Siberians to save Moscow; 2) Zhukov expanded Blitzkrieg's surrounding of troops by encircling the 6th Army.

[gaspersb]

@P1B1U1H1 Forgive a non Russian for offering his opinion, but operating off the understanding I gleaned from Russian History classes, it was the Russian people and their indomitable spirit that made Russia prevail. Stalin and his revolution only provided the equipment.

[mackjay2]

So, so beautiful



[lavanguardiadelsol]

This theme is si moving it made cry....

[permyak59]

@PuppetMask

Abraham Lincoln - one of the cruelest and bloodiest leader of history of mankind.

Gulags in USA for Japaneese prisoners, holodomor(hunger) of New York (millons died) - Rossvelt - is absolute evil !

British Concentration camps in Africa for boeren, slavery (millions died), Cheenese opium wars, genocide in India (50 mln died) - Britain is extrimist state.

Anglo-Saxons is cruelest and bloodiest people in th world.

[permyak59]

@PuppetMask

Another wester propoganda.

Yoy know nothing about our history and about Stalin

You know that 90% of former USSR and Russia supports Stalin ?

How can it be if he was evil for our people ?

From 1400 British colinial empire killed more people than all european countries together

And from 1956 another "seae colonial empire" - USA and it's sattelites(like Canada) killed more people than all countries in th world together.

[PuppetMask]

I wish the Red army choir would've done a rendition of this man's work. Imagine.