In this music video by Kersari, the young generation is picking up the banner of remembrance of the great and mighty Soviet Union.
“That country didn’t disappear from the map, do realise —
It’s in the DNA, it’s somewhere inside…”
Backup at Rumble.
Translated by and first presented at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.
In our translation we took one artistic liberty and translated a certain word as “simply”, and not “poorly” – as it appears in the original in Russian. We who lived in the USSR, had everything there was to have, but without excesses. Younger generation today, brought up in the capitalist consumerism-oriented environment, might view such lack of excesses as being “poor”, not quite seeing the difference between really poor and just plain simple lifestyle.
One of the comments to the song pointed out the phrase about believing in miracle, saying that in the final years, the leadership was going though the motions of building Communism, while the population was not educated enough in the theory, also going through the motions of the courses on Marxism-Leninism, without comprehending the applicability of the theory to state-building, rather viewing alle the achievements so far as some kind of a miracle. That evaluations, sadly, correct for the most part. However, the concept of “magic” in this particular song is different. There is a saying that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, and that also applies to social science. The song is written from the point of view of a younger generation, who only have a vague feeling of what the USSR was, based on the stories of their parents or grandparents. It is for these younger people that it may look like what they are told about is “magic”, something that is inconceivable in the modern capitalist reality, and so they are left with the impression that the older generation is waiting for a “miracle” of social justice to return. And therein lies hope that these younger people will start looking closer, scrutinising what effort on part of everyone in the society was required for the miracle to happen.
On March 17, 1991, an All-Union referendum was held, where people overwhelmingly voted for the preservation of the Union – a popular vote that was completely disregarded.
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