We raise our glasses \ To live without woes \ For our hearts to sing
We raise our glasses \ So that everything we want \ Would eventually happen
Trinity of the white horses \ Ride across the field
Guess what we have \ We have a party!
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[2x]
The songs are flowing \ The wines are pouring \ And the glasses are knocking in the unison
Urkaine \ is not dead \ If we are still partying like that!
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We’d make your blood boil \ even in that cold weather
By singing a song about love \ about love that’s mutual
Trinity of the white horses \ Ride across the field
Guess what we have \ We have a party!
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[3x]
The songs are flowing \ The wines are pouring \ And the glasses are knocking in the unison
Urkaine \ is not dead \ If we are still partying like that!
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The songs are flowing \ The wines are pouring \ And the glasses are knocking in the unison
Urkaine \ isn’t going to die \ As long as we are still partying like that!
In Simpheropol, Crimea, three girls were charged by russian occupational authorities for singing and dancing to that pop song in public. Viktory Dainenko, singing as a Victoria the Grumpy, was a big hit in all ex-USSR in the 00s. It’s a weird, stupid decision to criminalize it now, but who cares? They can ban every mention of that song with a capital punishment, but we all know that everyone here danced to it at least once, and why stop at that? The song is dated, but it’s still a blast.
They are mildly controversial if you look at actual counts on my previous posts where I translated soul-inspiring ukrainian Fleur’s songs. These posts drowned below zero a couple of times before getting upvotes. These posts show the same picture, they are just yet to mature and get balanced. They won’t get more than 10 upvotes, but I still feel some warmth from knowing some 10+ people shared my fascination with that band and maybe dug into them. Even one person is enough to justify the labor I put into it.
But I’d go against myself if I’d care about these internet points. Especially with that post. I find it important for ukrainian community for this russian-speaking ukrainian was very popular in Russia and there are now numerous charges against people playing his songs, including occupied territories, signaling of a new low now reached. And posting their lyrics for our foreign readers to know what they are about is in my opinion essential to the ukrainian-russian discourse.
I don’t post there that often, it just so happens I collect a couple of texts in my backlog and I post them one by one once a couple of weeks or more. If people downvote them and decrease their visibility, let it be. Let market economy decide, пусть рынок порешает, as we say in our languages. For me it was important to post it and I don’t really care what comes after that. And I encourage you to downvote it if you feel it’s unfitting for that community or to your taste, so that others won’t read it. Unlike my local votes, your clicks matter.