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Moscow October: Aquarium/ Московская Октябрьская: Аквариум

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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2006

An artistically evocative video from the legendary, once-underground Russian/Soviet rock band Aquarium (Аквариум), featuring renowned singer-singwriter Boris Grebenshikov (BG)/ Борис Гребенщиков (БГ). The song is "Moscow, October" (Московская Октябрьская), from the 1994 album "Kostroma, mon Amour." It is a sad, but lyrically sublime response to the Russian Constitutional Crisis of September-October 1993, which involved the most deadly street fighting in Moscow since the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917. According to government estimates, 187 were killed and 437 wounded. For more, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_constitutional_crisis_of_1993

RUSSIAN SITE: http://www.aquarium.ru
ENGLISH SITE: http://www.dharmafish.org

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  • конгениально.

  • Надо заставлять смотреть высших чиновников и депутатов перед приходом на работу. А вообще:

    МЫ не сдадимся.

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  • это он ведь так чувствовал тогда..

  • @leopoldbloom Deo Vindice, bro! As our Southern comrades say! Shake your hand!

  • @leopoldbloom The thing is that I took part in this 1993 rebellion and stood alive...

  • @ericyanikov Yes, art is created in a culture and in a context -- but if it is great art it eventually transcends both; and then it belongs to all humanity and all the ages. Example: The Rolling Stones wrote "Gimme Shelter" in the context of the social chaos and generational splits of the late 60's in North America and Western Europe. People too young to remember or from other cultures don't know this and don't care: such songs endures because they make your hair stand on end just the same.

  • If you was born in SU territory please don't wright explanation in english.....This is our sacral substance and pain...I think "they" do not understand you...Lets to reserve it to oneself...

  • @Boudicca64 Do you REALLY understand what he's singing about? Sorry, you must not understand. He sings with greatest PAIN and IRONY about bloody 1993 October coup 'etat.

  • too bad this one has been recorded post-soviets

  • Нет ничего... концептуальнее

  • плешивые стада... они и сейчас правят...

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