Special thanks to Patreon supporters Abdelhadi, Не В ТеМу, Moonsk, Khaleefa al Dhaheri, Yuriy Yashkir, Labcat, Marco Wilson, MacT, and Tupolev for supporting my channel.
What do Soviet and US infantrymen have in common? The Afghan flashback. The country looks the same even after 40 years... Just different soldiers (read young men) who are ordered to enter the country... Big thanks @OmnistarEast for the subtitles in both languages! Edit: I'd translate the chorus as 'Wish me a good luck in this battle. Wish me not to be left on this grassfield" meaning to survive and get home safely.
I was driving in the middle of the night in GTA IV, just enjoying Liberty City with Niko, when I decided to give the game's Russian radio a try, this was the first song that played and I don't know how to explain it but I loved it
I love Kino, all of their songs are works of art. There is a reason they are considered to be one of the most influential Russian Bands of all time. Цой жив!
@@zakonno ну вообще музыка кино очень простая, песня может состоять из 3 аккордов, но это не отнимает у неё, как бы это сказать, бл мысль потерял. Ну короче хоть и 3 аккорда но она душевная
Кино was always my father's favorite band from his time in Afghanistan In the 80's he introduced it to me and for that I will always hold the band and this song in particular close to my heart, I enjoy how much it has seen a new light in the west.
@@5yrniki there is sadder music than Russian Rock. Bands like Anathema and Antimatter come to mind, but there is no surge in popularity there. It's not about being sad.
That part is implied, not explicitly stated. If you were proficient in both English and Russian, then you would understand that from Russian to English always has a “rough” translation. People listening to this song understand the context of “ not to stay in the grass”. If the whole song was sung in English most people could understand it.
@@andreykaminskiy2391 Not entirely, you get the meaning of it and most of the words, but I do appreciate you telling everyone that because it is helpful, thank you
@@RamaboyButylka777Вообще-то они давно в Москве с официальными визитами.Даже кроме азиатов и деревень для ...негров ,договорились и талибов в качестве новых граждан завозить.Проверяйте.
@@mcfeddle certainly! However one could make an argument that there is more direct difference in genre between songs whose purpose it is to say "war is bad" and songs who seek to "this is what war is like" and it being bad
Great song ! For those who don't know, the name of the song is due to the fact that on the sleeve of the soldiers were written their blood type if a transfusion had to be done quickly
actually not. Numbers and blood type was put on chest becouse slaves were to easy to rip in battle. Many Tsoi fans have theory becouse of that this song is about methaporical war, not real one. Same with nye nazhatyj vo vriemia kurok. If it was real it should be nye pacyanutyi. So theres few weird sentences that some people believe that Tsoi wasnt singing about afghan
@@user-oz3uj9xu7n Современная соевая молодёжь всё песни Цоя превратила в революционные. Конкретно здесь он поёт о том, что он не хочет убивать и умирать, но он должен.
I don't speak a word of Russian and I was able to feel what this song was about before I ever read a translation. It sounds like being far from home. This one really gets me, RIP Viktor Tsoi.
Every time someone asks me what i listen to i answer bands like kino or kaskad or any russian war music and they are like "So metal music?" So i show them and they get addicted too. Every time you help us to get distracted from the outside world. Thank you Omnistar
Thank you so much Omnistar for covering Gruppa Krovi and putting some great Soviet Afghan war footage alongside , I have been waiting on you to do a video on this song and you delivered Цой жив !
@@vulpes7079 The first and second World imperialist wars cost humanity one hundred and fifty million dead people. The current contradictions between the fucked-up rulers of different states can lead to the death of all mankind.
As a 19 yrs old. When I hear this russian song composed by кино, I felt like this is so fire. that song will never gets old until we grow older and lie on our own coffins.
I started my journey into music from Russia several years ago, Kino was among the very first bands I heard, to this day I still love and enjoy their music very much. Knowing the lyrics of gruppa krovi, I always imagined it should have a video like this, great job putting together the music and the footage. Цой жив!
@@yalovoyhznepomny Well, it may not be the exact same, but I've heard Avail by The Burns and also some various 80s russian new wave and liked those as well.
@@Rslb7. This is the first time I've heard of them. Anyway, I'm glad that there are whole channels on the Internet that translate popular songs into other languages
First heard this song years ago on one of my favorite streamers videos. It grabbed me right away. And that chorus is just hauntingly beautiful. I don’t understand a word of Russian but that guitar, that bass, and those drums behind his voice are trying to tell you something very important. You might not understand the language in the song, but you can FEEL it.
fire ahh afghanistan beats 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️ imma enjoy it while im still alive there also heres mine: WE MAKIN OUTTA 'EM ZINC-LACED COFFINS WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️💀💀💀
Absolutely beautiful. Gooose bumps. This is music not the illininati satanic crap we hear on radio now. Dont get me wrong i love american music up until late 90s and non mainatream stuff up until now but russia has some amazing music in all eras of their history. Love to russia from slovakia
Life was good, meaningful. It was rich. Not rich in terms of money, but rich culturally, intellectually, and healthwise. To be young was fun, with knowledge free and easily accessible, with the culture at every corner, and sports for everyone. The pace was slow: plenty of time to think, learn, analyze. But it was also the height of the Cold War. We were young, rebellious, and easy to manipulate. We were never satisfied with what we were given. We took for granted everything. At night, we were glued to our radio receivers, listening to the BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other broadcasting services aiming at discrediting socialism and all countries which were fighting against Western imperialism. Czech socialist industrial conglomerates were building, in solidarity, entire factories, from steel to sugar mills, in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. But we saw no glory in this because Western propaganda outlets were simply ridiculing such undertakings. Our cinemas were showing masterpieces of Italian, French, Soviet, Japanese cinema. But we were told to demand junk from the US. The music offering was great, from live to recorded. Almost all music was, actually, available although with some delay, in local stores or even on stage. What was not sold in our stores was nihilist rubbish. But that was precisely what we were told to desire. And we did desire it, and copied it with religious reverence, on our tape recorders. If something was not available, the Western media outlets were shouting that it is a gross violation of free speech. They knew, and they still know now, how to manipulate young brains. At some point, we were converted into young pessimists, criticizing everything in our countries, without comparing, without even a tiny bit of objectivity. We were told, and we repeated: Everything in the Soviet Union or Czechoslovakia was bad. Everything in the West was great. Yes, it was like some fundamentalist religion or mass-madness. Hardly anyone was immune. Actually, we were infected, we were sick, turned into idiots. We were using public, socialist facilities, from libraries to theaters, subsidized cafes, to glorify the West and smear our own nations. This is how we were indoctrinated, by Western radio and television stations, and by publications smuggled into the two countries. In those days, plastic shopping bags from the West became the status symbols! You know, those bags that you get in some cheap supermarkets or department stores. When I think about it at a distance of several decades, I can hardly believe it: Young educated boys and girls, proudly walking down the streets, exhibiting cheap plastic shopping bags, for which they paid a serious amount of money. Because they came from the West. Because they were symbolizing consumerism! Because we were told that consumerism is good. We were told that we should desire "freedom". Western-style freedom. We were instructed to "fight for freedom". In many ways, we were much freer than the West. I realized it when I first arrived in New York and saw how badly educated local children of my age were, and how shallow their knowledge of the world was; and how little culture there was in regular midsize North American cities. Our food was tastier, ecologically produced. But we wanted colorful Western packaging. We demanded chemicals. - Andre Vltchek
Excelente música, me encanta mucho las músicas Soviéticas y del Pacto de Varsovia, prefiero mil veces escuchar estas hermosas canciones, en lugar de las músicas Actuales, Escucho estás músicas en la calle por dónde camino y en el trabajo, no importa que me llamen Raro ✨✨ Saludos desde Bolivia-Santa Cruz 🍷✨
Amazing work brother! I love your music and I am very glad you uploaded Группа Крови because its one of my favourite songs. I hope to see more content from кино and it will always have a special place in my heart. Greetings from Estonia 🇪🇪🇪🇪
i know this is completely unrelated but every time i think about Estonia i always think of that one screenshot of a conversation where a guy gets estonia and equestria (the place from my little pony) mixed up
Holy crap I LOVE this song! Kino is, in my opinion, one of if not the best bands from Russia. They're up there with Molchat Doma. Also may Viktor Tsoi rest in peace. Edit: NVM. Kino number one! Molchat Doma is still good though.
Molchat doma are up there, close to Kino, not the other way around. Kino is the best Russian band and the original. Molchat doma got influenced by Kino. Molchat doma are awesome, but Kino is always number one !
Omnistar, thanks so much for this video. I must have watched it 100 times - there's something so surreal about the Soviet Afghan war, especially set to this music - like it's an alternate universe. Especially as somebody from the West. This song inspired me to learn Russian. I'm 4 months in so far and understand more and more every day! As Victor would say "Пожелай мне удачи"
What do Soviet and US infantrymen have in common? The Afghan flashback. The country looks the same even after 40 years... Just different soldiers (read - young men) who are ordered to fight in a foreign country and had to left with... unaccomplished mission, lost friends, empty souls. Big thanks @OmnistarEast for the subtitles in both languages! Edit: I'd translate the chorus as 'Wish me a good luck in this coming battle. Wish me not to be left on this grassfield" meaning to survive and get home alive.
The British redcoat, the Soviet conscript, the American soldier. 3 different worlds, three different centuries, all swallowing dust in that accursed land...
@@MajesticOakесли бы британцев там не было, и они не лезли туда со своей "Большой игрой", то и СССР тоже бы не зашёл в Афганистан. Имхо. Опять же, где Афганистан и где остров Великобритании и США?🤷🏼♀️ Надо и нам залезть в Ирландию и в Канаду, навести там бардак
@@VasilyevaEkaterina Those who only ever seek to point out the splinters in others eyes; not caring about the twigs in their own... will go blind first. I am not here to tell you "west good" and "russia bad" or whatever. But if you constantly only ever think ALL the problems of this world only and exclusively stem from "the others"...once "the others" are gone; who will you blame when no paradise sets in? Have a nice day; stay safe.
When I was studying Soviet-Afghan war, this was the first russian song I was introduced to, including Kino. Since then I've been hooked on it as well as other russian songs. This music hits hard with every Soviet Afghan war montages I've seen.
@user-bt7jn5kr3p Both the Soviet Union and the West made the same mistake in Afghanistan, but all we did was make it worse. Hopefully we can make peace for the future ✌️
@@thomitch1995 изучи историю того периода, как русские оказались в Афганистане? Кто их туда пригласил? С кем воевали? ... Историю событий 2008 года в грузии, войну во вьетнаме и корее и сейчас на украине... Что объединяет эти войны? Почитай, будет интересно...
There's so much mid/subpar music from 80s/90s Russia that sounds just like this, but once you realize it's about the wars they fought in Afghanistan, Chechnya, and beyond, it becomes some of the best music you've ever heard. I love this stuff.
I discovered this on Vladivostok FM and the way Ruslana, the DJ, always introduces this is always in a jolly manner, shouting the words, 'GRUPPA KROVI!' damn I didn't know this was a melancholic song.
thank you omni, our family enjoy this music and we share this together. again thank you, wish you the best and hope you keep doing the things you love and sharing this music with us
I love listening to Soviet era songs or post ones since they feel different on what normally I hear as a western person and plus translation truly helps understand the natural vagueness of artists songs. Truly a Vietnam war like war on which the powerful one turns out to be incapable.
Kino is a great pop symbol in former socialist nations of Europe and Central Asia. They becomes so popular that their songs are enjoyed by both anti-communist and communist, beggar and orligarch, crime and cop, soldier and militias, civilians and politicians. You can see that in their concert: Soviet soldiers, tourist and teenager danced together with all of Soviet flag, Russian tricolor flag and even some Tsar banner lol.Their song are both an ordinary tool to entertain and an weapon for propagandist and politician. A truely great legacy. Thanks Tsoi and his friends for all of this.
Because his songs are not about wars or politics at all, but about the spirit and its struggle against the unbearable lightness, ordinariness and meaningless of human being.
