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Originally Posted by SergiyY
Thank you for this song! I wish the Jewish people and the state of Israel victory and prosperity! Ukrainians and the Jewish people are now fighting on the same side. We also know on our own skin what it is like not to have our own state for centuries and what genocide is...
And what happened in Dagestan has a real basis and is only a small puzzle of a bigger picture. Back in 2006, in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet, I got acquainted with the phenomenon that a couple of years later I conceptualized and called "informational worldview spaces" and I somehow managed to avoid becoming a supporter of any of them. Many of them were built around anti-Semitism. Now I understand that these things were FSB projects, which they first tested on Russians (the events in Dagestan are a consequence of that process), and then spread to other countries, in particular where they planned to use it. What happened in the Gaza Strip and what is happening in other countries where actions in support of the Palestinians are taking place, in my opinion, did not happen without these technologies developed in Russia. I think the time has come when the freedom of propaganda must be separated from the freedom of speech and this shameful phenomenon must be effectively counteracted, otherwise we are on the verge of the decline of human civilization.
I found this English translation. Would love to read Jadis's answer thoughabout this song.
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Yes, I will defend the sand of Israel,
The land of Israel, the children of Israel;
Left to die for the sand of Israel,
The land of Israel, the children of Israel;
I will defend against any enemy,
Sand and earth, which I was promised
Left to die for the sand of Israel,
The cities of Israel, the land of Israel;
All the Goliaths from the pyramids,
Retreat before the Star of David.
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Hey Sergiy, nice to have you on MB! You sound like a very interesting guy.
As it happens, I'm not Jewish, I'm in Israel for work. I do speak Russian though, my parents immigrated to Canada when I was a small boy in the 1990s.
I think you're spot on about the common cause of Ukraine and Israel: both national movements have long been fiercely hated by the Kremlin, going way back to the Soviet times. I am less familiar with the case of Ukraine, but I've been reading a lot over the years about the astonishing resilience of Stalinist vocabulary and rhetoric in anti-Israeli propaganda. "Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism", "Israel is the new Nazi Germany", "Israel is the vanguard of global imperialism", "Zionism is the real antisemitism" and all that horse$hit can be traced back to Stalin's antisemitic campaigns in the last years of his life. The spread of these braindead cliches to the USSR's client states in the third world and to its useful idiots in the first is well documented, and boy have they persisted. Of course the scary surge in antisemitism we see worldwide is fuelled by multiple new factors, Putin's cyber propaganda among them... but the verbal formulas of Stalinist "anti-Zionism" are still with us, somehow. Truly, a zombie ideology.
Have you seen Хрусталёв, маши́ну? It's one of the best films ever. It's set in 1953. There's an amazing scene where schoolyard bullies are beating up a Jewish kid and calmly explain that they're doing this because his family are "Zionists" and actually they have nothing against Jews...
From the bottom of my heart, wish you and all Ukrainians all the very best and may your resistance against pure evil end in victory, sooner rather than later.