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Let’s start this week with a little Red Army Choir and @kalashnikovusa action. Rocking the KR-9 with an EOTech XPS3. Commie guns with Western optics are pretty fun. Who wants to see a video featuring this alongside some @meridian_defense Alpha/FSB guns? - #redarmychoir #ak9 #kalash #Kalashnikov #eotech #subgun #commiegun #aimbot #aimbotkin #firstpersonshooter #surefire #trexarms #trexarmskydex https://www.instagram.com/p/B16woQch6rp/?igshid=8cqj3tcxzxit

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Sin inspiración y nada para dibujar algo o expresarme ...después de tanto tiempo sin beber creo que tome la cerveza con más grados y terminé en el profundo agujero de los coros de la armada roja .... Dios me libre 🤣 #kuntsman #redarmychoir #buscandoinspiracion #perdidaenellimbo #notengoautocontrolymeodio #soyyuyin (en Iquique, Chile) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrbbESFAFwfyu2R4PghZjI5MTBfSAodG9ul86w0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qi6webux2foa

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when you are devoted to the motherland #redarmychoir #motherlandrussia🇷🇺 #ussr #slav

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January 6, 2018 Memorial to Alexandrov Ensemble in Bayonne, NJ

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Some thoughts on the Red Army Choir

Prelude:

There are some who like the Russians and there are some who don’t. Mostly because of the Cold war and the “communism” they enforced in the countries within their sphere of influence. Some benefited greatly, like Rákosi for example, others suffered, and hated them. This hasn’t changed much since then. People are criticising the government for being a friend of Russia, and abandoning the EU. Is this what we’re doing in reality? I can’t say, nor it is my job to say.

People are divided, and it won’t help the conservation of their culture. Some may think that it is not a problem as who doesn’t know the song Kalinka or Katyusha. Do nothing and ask people ten years later, significantly less will know. In a world where “classical” music needs to be taught in schools to have students listen to it, and where everyone listens to pop music, because “classical is gay”, it is necessary to get as many people to know this culture as possible.

The actuality:

The Red Army Choir, now known as the Alexandrov Ensemble, is the perfect example of the Russophobia. I attended their concert last night in Budapest, and it was one of the best time I have ever had. Incredibly talented people, who won’t get the attention they really deserve, because they are considered a piece of a wanna-be-forgotten past. I am happy that I could see them live.

But here’s the thing: I could not convince but a single friend to come with me, even though many of them love classical (I hate this word btw) music. When they heard the Choir’s name, it was like I said the Devil’s name. I saw the hate and fear in their eyes, and of course I got the “communist idiot” and the “I din’t want to go to jail, but if you do go ahed” type of stuff. My first question was always : why do you think this is a communist gathering? Various answers came, but one piece was repeated: it’s in their name, “Red Army”.

I gave up convincing anyone. Nothing I told could change their perspective on this. I was like, they don’t know what they will miss, and I was right, it was superb. And not a single time was there even a mention of communism or Russian propaganda. It was just the music and the dance. This is the situation in Hungary and not in the whole world and if anyone is offended I want to apologise, I just wrote what I thought the time of this writing.

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