As I wear my 1970s Pobeda, the first watch I ever repaired myself and also the first from my now-dead grandfather, this song is bittersweet. The victory was assured for us all by the ultimate sacrifice of untold millions. It isn't dead, merely asleep. It will wake again!
Dorogoi Dlinnoyu is a song that invigorates such powerful feelings of nostalgia within me, despite me being born 79 years after it was initially recorded. It is only exemplified with this terrific remix Ayden!
It was Christmas eve of 1969 in Equatorial Guinea, ruled by Francisco Macias Nguema, who had been in power since 1968, one of his most infamous crimes was on that day where around 135 prisoners were led into a stadium with "Those Were The Days" sung by Mary Hopkin playing on the loudspeakers Around 100 were shot by guards in Santa costumes, the rest 35 were ordered to dig a ditch and buried up to their necks, and over a course of days they were eaten by red ants
9-го августа в 40-ых, во время Великой блокады Ленинграда (а это нынешний Санкт-Петербург) заиграла самая значительная композиция по всем улицам для жителей Ленинграда: 7-ая композиция Шостаковича. Её часто называют "Ленинградской". Говорят, что когда фашисты слушали это композицию за городом (а её было слышно), многие из них понимали, что проиграют они не только бой под Ленинградом, но и всю войну. "Много лет спустя турист из ГДР Фриц Херман, попавший в плен в ходе прорыва блокады, прошедший сибирский лагерь и вернувшийся в родной Дрезден, разыскал Карла Элиасберга и в откровенной беседе признался ему: «Тогда, 9 августа 1942 года, мы, немцы, поняли, что проиграем войну. Мы думали, что Ленинград после наших обстрелов и бомбежек мертв. Но когда зазвучала симфония, мы ощутили вашу силу, способную преодолеть голод, страх и даже смерть»..." Вы спросите при чём тут это? Просто обратил внимание что видео загрузили 9-го августа.
Слава Советскому Народу.. Народу-Победителю в Великой Отечественной Войне! Мы благодарно склоняем Боевые Знамена перед подвигом города-героя Ленинград!
Спасибо вас автор, за ваше творчество! В своё время ваша музыка очень сильно вдохновила меня и помогла насытить мои унылые, однообразные дни. Я до сих пор помню те прекрасные часы, когда я брал пару сигарет, выходил в свой пустой ночной двор, и смотрел на звёзды и рассвет, слушая вместе с сиренами воздушной тревоги “Siberian Anarchy” и “Russian Anarchy”. Моя страна была расколота в 1991, а не так давно ещё и началась война между ее республиками. Слушая “I will return”, я каждый раз вспоминаю об этом и немного грущу. Сейчас, когда я вдали от дома, “I will return” приобрела для меня ещё один смыл, ведь я понимаю, что когда-то я всё-таки вернусь домой…
there is something so incredibly eery about this song to me. its bittersweet and makes me feel very nostalgic for a country i wasn't alive to experience. im not even from one of the former republics, yet i steel feel great loss hearing this song.
This remix and background makes me imagine joy and respite after a long and brutal war that took many lives. However, as a Russian, I cant help but feel sadness because of how things turned out in present times... I wish it to end soon and so that we will have the same respite, just like people after WW2.
As an American i can relate. Ive grown up watching good men be sent to die for nothing in a sandbox for 20 years. When it is finally at an end? They want to send us back in to Gaza. I miss the days it looked like our nations would be friends and allies.....But our "leaders" have seen to the death of that dream. Our nations deserve rest
@@jaushuagrahamthefloridaman1124Unfortunately though, theres always a nation or a group that may have dedicated their blood, sweat and tears into destroying your nation.
love it or hate it, it's a fact that Soviet army was the first one who take over Berlin from Nazis. And the Soviet was the nation took most casualties in ww2. (second one was China)
Epic remix, btw I was just listening to this song! edit: It's also the theme of the only superevent in my hoi4 mod which is in a very early development stage (at least for now)
Dorogoy Dlinnoyu - Those were the days lyrics Russian: Ekhali na troyke s bubentsami, A vdali mel'kali ogon'ki… Ekh, kogda by mne teper' za vami, Dushu by razveyat' ot toski! Dorogoy dlinnoyu, da noch’ka lunnoyu, Da s pesney toy, chto v dal' letit zvenya, Da so starinnoyu, da s semistrunnoyu, Chto po nocham tak muchila menya. X2 II Da, vykhodit, peli my zadarom, Ponaprasnu noch' za noch'yu zhgli. esli my pokonchili so starym, Tak i nochi eti otoshli! Dorogoy dlinnoyu, da noch’ka lunnoyu, Da s pesney toy, chto v dal' letit zvenya, Da so starinnoyu, da s semistrunnoyu, Chto po nocham tak muchila menya. X2 II V dal' rodnuyu novymi putyami Nam otnyne ekhat' suzhdeno! ...ekhali na troyke s bubentsami, Da teper' proekhali davno! Dorogoy dlinnoyu, da noch’ka lunnoyu, Da s pesney toy, chto v dal' letit zvenya, Da so starinnoyu, da s semistrunnoyu, Chto po nocham tak muchila menya. X3 II
English Version Once upon a time there was a tavern Where we used to raise a glass or two Remember how we laughed away the hours And dreamed of all the great things we would do Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. La la la la Those were the days, oh yes those were the days Then the busy years went rushing by us We lost our starry notions on the way If by chance I'd see you in the tavern We'd smile at one another and we'd say Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. La la la la Those were the days, oh yes those were the days Just tonight I stood before the tavern Nothing seemed the way it used to be In the glass I saw a strange reflection Was that lonely man really me? Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. La la la la Those were the days, oh yes those were the days Through the door there came familiar laughter I saw your face and heard you call my name Oh my friend we're older but no wiser For in our hearts the dreams are still the same Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose We'd fight and never lose For we were young and sure to have our way. La la la la Those were the days, oh yes those were the days
Americans/British hearing this: This is a cool nostalgic song Russians hearing this: This is a sad song that describes our country Equatoguineans hearing this: *Screaming*
@@justoryn8863 Unlike Germany, the cultural center of the U.S. is New York, not Washington. Except for being the capital, Washington D.C. has not much significance.
@atkocuboatkocubo8729 True, but that doesn't get rid of the fact any country and it's people will have hope of a success if their capital stands, regardless of if other cities could be superior As an American, I'd rather hear "we still have our Capital, but we lost New York." Rather than the other way around
It originally was a Russian folk song Dorrlogoi Dligonyu, recorded for the first time in 1925 (but it's from at least 19th Century). The rewritten version was recorded as Those were the days in English and French and after yet another rewrite in Polish as To były piękne dni.
Never thought Id catch a video this early lol I don't know how you don't have way more subs A YT I know (Hoi4 stuff) Just passed you some how lol keep up the good Remixes!
The year is 1975, As the cadet moves the flag of the hammer and sickle side to side on top of the Reichstag in Germania signaling the capture of the Nazi capital by Zhukovs USSR he sees rockets flying knowing nukes are about to drop he closes his eyes yet keeps on swinging the flag as the bright flash of light is felt and seen he opens his eyes only to see he is still alive he hears a voice: "comrade keep on waving the flag for comrade Stalin for the motherland! LET THEM KNOW WE JUST TOOK BERLIN!" Confused as he might be the cadets keeps on waving the flag with pride not knowing that fate decided to give him a second chance
Wake up, tovarisch! Burgundy? WRRF? The second Western Russian war? What strange dreams you have! Germany has capitulated tonight. Take your overcoat, let's go home
"The great trial? Ust Sysolsk? Nazism in Perm'? Nah, comrade, my birth city will never fall under teutonic boot! Now get up, comrade, we have to deal with narrow-eyesed ones!"
It sounds as something you would hear in your dreams or even in your death bed, remembering everything you did, everything you got right, everything you repent of. Those were the days.
