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I'm sure that when Karel Havlíček Borovský said "russians call everything russian slavic to call everything slavic russian", he wasn't talking about videogames; but the shoe fits
#ukraine#russia#russian propaganda#videogames#panslavism#russian exceptionalism#stalker#metro#metro exodus#chernobylite#underrail
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Pan-Slavism
'Continued tension between regime and educated society stimulated the appearance of the first independent public movement with an agenda which concerned both foreign policy and, even more deeply, the nature of Russia as a state and a community. Especially strong among the wealthy and educated member of Moscow society, the Pan-Slavs were inspired by the example of Germany to hope that Russia could both renew its national identity and strengthen its standing in Europe by sponsoring nation-building among the Slav and Orthodox peoples of central and southeastern Europe.'
Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking
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You always want to hope american media will be normal about eastern europeans and then they create a "Russian" gang with members called Janke Dacyshyn, Franz Tomczeszyn and a woman saying "To přeci nemůžeme" 🤨
#hey american tv show can you please be normal about eastern europeans for a damn minute#and they always say no#this is about#the x files#of course#which is really sad because the original tv show was mostly normal#people say panslavism doesnt exist#when in fact it was invented by american media to save time and money getting real russian actors#like they dont want to be racist by using stereotypical russian names#so they invent a whole new kind of racism
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oh karel havliček borovský we're really in it now
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O, Jarilo, blaženų čas žnijů i živų, V toj epohě radosti tě pozdravijem. Tvoje święto znáči obilnòstь i plodnòstь, Zemjy cvětu v Twojì moci.
Matko Zemljo, Tvoja łaska otača našě polä, Tvoje blaženstvo v každěm kłosě zręva. Prosime Tě o plodnòstь i obilnòstь, O blaženstvo dlä našě žnijy.
O, Mokošь, čas života i růstů, Tvoje swětło rozjasnja našě dně. Dźěkujem za žnije, kotrě nam dajesz, Neđ Twoja sila približi nam obilnòstь.
Jarowita/Jaryły - kwiecień
tarcza Jarowita
zataczanie kręgu Tarczą Jarowita i mieczem/szablą
błogosławieństwo orężem (tarczą i mieczem, mające dodać siły i odwagi oraz chronić przed złem)
elementy związane z rolnictwem, zasiewami - Jaryło to głównie Bóg płodności i rolnictwa, Jarowit - walki i młodzieńczej odwagi
pieśń: "Włóczył się Jaryło po całym świecie..."
Jarovita/Jarila - kwiecień
štít Jarovit
zatačanje kruhu Štítom Jarovita a mečom/sabljom
blaženstvo oružjem (štítem a mečem, aby dodalo silu a odvahu a ochránilo pred zlom)
prvky spojené s poľnohospodárstvom, sejbami - Jarylo je hlavne Boh plodnosti a poľnohospodárstva, Jarovit - boja a mladistvej odvahy
pieśń: "Włóczył się Jaryło po całym świecie..."
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The more I think about the Czech Eurovision entry and the more interviews and statements from them I see, the more disgusting it gets.
“Slavic sisterhood”? “We (all) don’t want our boys to die”??? That’s literally straight up russian propaganda with its panslavism that is used as a pretext of the LITERAL ONGOING GENOCIDE. Appropriating our language is also one of the things russians do, calling it a “trophy”. Yes, we don’t want our boys (and girls, and literally anyone else) to die, so maybe address it to those who have come to kill us instead of preaching this mythical rotten sisterhood/brotherhood?
And, like... if they meant well somehow, they would have listened to the reactions from Ukrainians, because there have been a lot of such reactions since winter. But they don’t care. They just want to exploit us to create this holier-than-thou image for everybody who doesn’t know any better.
Incredible.
#eurovision 2023#vesna#don't try to defend them or clown on this anyone - you'll just show your ignorance at best or just your evil-ness at worst#eurovision#esc 2023
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The tags u left on that serbrus drawing are fascinating... Can you tell me more i want to study this dynamic on a petri dish
YEAH ofc !! i'm not the expert on those 2 but i do find the idea of them VERY entertaining <3 this will get long bc i'm insane
i think vuk's crush on ivan would've been a thing since the 1800s! and it was SO onesided even back then :,) so russia supported the serbs in their struggle for independence from the ottomans, right? this was nothing special for russia (they'd helped out other balkan states too), and they just did it because they wanted to weaken and defeat the ottomans. for serbia though this was huge! russian support played a central role in winning their independence, and i think vuk's the kind of person that doesn't forget it when someone does something nice for him
the next decades brought constant fighting with austria, during which vuk was 24/7 daydreaming about his only powerful ally, big hunk muscle daddy ivan <3 panslavism was ALL the rage (ivan wasn't nearly as into it as vuk was until ww1, i think that's part of where the idea of starstruck vuk who wants to be buddy buddy kissy kissy with russia and ivan being like uhhhh... comes from)
but when ww1 did happen, ivica came to the rescue daww. (overdramatic jokes aside, ivan DID like him, as a loyal ally & fellow orthodox slav, but more on that later.) so at the time vuk was all like <3 <3 <3 omggg my hero
relations soured when russia went on their big baddie commie era because yugoslavia thought they were cringe, but this changed during the 90's. russia was the only one to show support for serbia at the time (when no one else did including old allies) and so vuk was like 'ohhhh fineeee i can forgive him for his stalinist phase <3 i miss his dick anyway <3' and has been obsessed ever since
tldr a lot of this comes from vuk's main character syndrome where he thinks that the world revolves around him and everything that other people decide to do, they do because of how they feel about HIM, duh. & vuk being a prideful person who had no one else to turn to during multiple points in history, so he stuck to the one dude who WAS there like a little homosexual flea to a dog
he stalks ivan's instagram, has a helga from arnold-esque russia shrine in his bedroom and idolizes ivan (/has frequent dreams about having sex with him).
meanwhile ivan remembers to send vuk a happy easter card every year for that slay orthodox solidarity, and then forgets about him for another year because vuk's a huge pick-me girlie and it even weirds IVAN out a bit <3 his feelings are still overall warm but it's the difference in intensity that makes this dynamic very funny to me
#vuk still jacks off every day to the one time they fucked and ivan forgot it happened u know that kinda vibe#sorry if i got any history facts wrong i was too tired to fact check and it's been a while since i read about this haha#ask#yugotalia
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Also it's funny when people claim that "ukrainians are a made up nation" and then in the very next sentence argue for ussr which didn't even hide the fact that it was trying to create a "soviet nation"
#which in reality turned into russification and destruction of diversity#people were lied that they had internationalism but the russian nation stood above every other#not to mention putin's panslavism which was invented by a ukrainian theologist
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introducing a brand new panslavism: chechoslovenia. introducing a brand new anchluss that unites germany and australia
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sisterhood=panslavism and russian singing in ukrainian=cultural appropriation are the main points of criticism towards vesna's song. i cannot speak of the latter beside saying were it me i wouldn't feel comfortable singing it, but i don't think the former was meant to come across that way. czech women kinda get what's happening to ukrainian women now. there's a collective memory of the 'friendly help' invasion by warsaw pact armies in 68 and twenty years of very founded fear to walk alone, and even further back, of the 'liberation' by red army in 45 when the luckier families hid their young wherever they could. kremlin sends an army and women's suffering follows, and we remember that. i could go into depressing detail about the staging but point is... however bad the wording is, i think this is what it tries to say. or maybe i'm biased and overanalyzing, which is probably more likely. i just don't think there was malicious intent in making the song.
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Mama ŠČ!: whatever could it mean?
i'm not really your eurovision girlie BUT! this year few songs captured my attention. to nobody's surprise, one of them is mama ŠČ! by let 3. this beautiful performance is so packed that at first watch it just looks like a nonsensical chaos so it's time for some good ol' analysis!
!DISCLAIMER! I AM NOT CROATIAN AND I DIDN'T TALK TO THE BAND. EVERYTHING HERE ARE JUST MY THOUGHTS
1. The band
what even is let 3? well, the word 'let' translates to 'flight' and i didn't dig deeper. sorry. the band itself is more interesting anyway.
they are a croatian rock band formed in 1987 in then-yugoslavia. since then they released ten albums and have become quite popular in croatia and other countries on balkan. they are mostly known for their controversial, avantgarde, vulgar and obscene performances. the eurovision one is tame for them. seriously, read their wiki, it's great.
2. The title
on to the song itself now! let's begin with the name. 'mama šč'. what? right of the bat we are intrigued. what the hell is 'šč'? one meaning could be щ. this is a letter of cyrillic script, which is used in russia, ukraine, bulgaria and some other countries. 'šč' is this letter written in latin script according to the ukrainian pronunciation, which is a nice little tidbit i learned from wikipedia. i also learned that the band itself provided non-sensical answers when asked about the meaning, but as they say, it may not be that deep, but the ground is soft and i'm ready to start digging. also also, the phrase 'šč!' is kind of a post-pandemic catchphrase for the band, with its origin being a video of the band's bassist balancing a shoe on his head.
now, 'mama'. the word itself is not difficult to understand, but it also has a symbolic meaning. you see, the title of 'mother' is often assigned to russia. this started in the medieval times, but was popularized and extensively used during the soviet era by the bolsheviks. this imagery, along with the theory of panslavism, was and sometimes still is used to support russia's role as the superior slavic country, which should take other slavs 'under it's wings'. it's also a term of endearment, which has become quite bitter
with this knowledge i think we can confidently say that the name of the song could refer to russia, with its imperial tendencies, and ukraine. i know, how shocking, i bet you wouldn't guess that.
3. The lyrics
we're finally really getting into it! the first three verses go like this:
Mama kupila traktora ŠČ! Mama kupila traktora ŠČ! Mama kupila traktora Trajna-nina Armagedon nona ŠČ!
'mama kupila traktora' translates to 'mommy's bought herself a tractor'. we already established the relationship between russia and the word, so let's assume that by 'mama' the song means the country.
so she's bought herself a tractor. good for her! except the tractor could be a metaphor, too. you see, one of the most popular brands of tractors in croatia is belarus produced in, you guessed it, belarus. so when the band sings 'mama's bought herself a tractor', they are also singing 'russia's bought itself belarus'. the words are somewhat ironic, since belarus' prezident has in october given russia's prezident a fucking tractor for his birthday, so he didn't even have to pay for it. also also, just a cherry on top, remember what ukrainian farmers used to tow russian armed vehicles? tractors.
if we take a more literal look at these lyrics, we get a picture of 'mama' buying a tool to help her and her family with farming. by the way, do you know who is one of the biggest producers of wheat inthe world? russia.
the next line is a little bit more complicated for non-croatians, but i have something. according to a comment under this video, 'trajna nina nena' is a popular croatian lullaby. so they swapped the 'nena' with 'armagedonona', which turned the meaning to an 'armageddon lullaby'. also, 'nena' means 'grandma' in croatian and i have seen people translate this line as 'armageddon grandma', which could allude to the soviet union, if we take russia today as the 'mother'. granny end-of-the-world kinda thing.
on to the next verse!
Mama ljubila morona ŠČ! Mama ljubila morona ŠČ! Mama ljubila morona Trajna-nina Armagedon nona
it's pretty similar to the first two, but the key line is different. 'mama ljubila morona' translates to 'mama kissed the moron'. who could it be, i wonder. combined with the previous verses, we get the picture of 'mama' buying 'tractor' for her 'moron' whom she loves. by the way this scenario is presented it's clear that the band doesn't agree with 'mama' or the 'moron', but it also could be read as russia and its people being in a sort of abusive or toxic relationship with the 'moron', as he is the one who's being referred to with unflattering term.
both verses are broken up with the 'šč' sounds. Here i will take the liberty to paste the lead singer's answer regarding this letter:
“5000 years older than the first alphabet found, it is the oldest letter. Now we will send our alphabet from Dora into orbit by spaceship. When Armageddon on Earth subsides, the rocket will return and bring the first alphabet again.”
Take from that what you will.
next we have something i would dare to call the bridge:
A b c č ć d dž đ e f g h i j k l lj m n nj o p r s š t u v z ž Mama, mama, mama, ja se idem igrat’ Mama, idem u rat
first, let's look at the alphabet. here i will again draw from the comment section of the previously aforementioned video. according to one comment, the nonsensical spelling is supposed to symbolize the creation of a 'new soviet union', represented by the 'šč'. they also mention that the 'šč' could be a parody of the letter z, which you can see on russian tanks deployed in ukraine. but i also saw a comment under a reddit post saying that it's just a croatian alphabet.
here i think is a good place to point out the origins of this song. you see, mama ŠČ! wasn't written for eurovision. it's actually part of a bigger project, an anti-war rock opera, and was inspired by another croatian artist, who wrote songs for croatian production of the play 'mother courage and her children', specifically by the lyrics 'buy me, mama, one little war'.
'ja se idem igrať' translates to 'i'm goin to play' and 'idem u rat' to 'i'm going to war'. this sounds like it is sung by a child, as well as all of the song up to this point, with the use of nursery rhyme and the childish word 'mama'. but here, the atmosphere of the song changes, it becomes more chaotic and aggressive. the child is excited to go play, to go to war. if we look at dictators, majority of them were recruiting children through insane amounts of propaganda. many of those kids actually were excited to go kill. or it's possible, that the child in the song is not a child at all, but rather a childish dictator, who sees war as play. this would be inline with the band's statement, in which they addressed the song to 'all those, who think that planet is their toy'.
whoosh, that's a lot! but we're almost there:
Onaj mali psihopat Mali podli psihopat Krokodilski psihopat Mama, idem u rat
'that little psychopat, little evil psychopat, crocodile-like psychopat, mama, i'm going to war'.
well who could they possibly mean by that. fun fact, that gentleman-sitting-over-there (as our geography teacher refers to him, while pointing at moscow) is noticeably short.
the 'crocodile-like' part could refer to few things. firstly, boris johnson said that talking to russia's prezident about peace is like 'talking to a crocodile while it has your leg in its jaws'. another one is 'crocodile tears', which could be connected to the image of eager children going to war in the bridge and how the dictator cries crocodile tears over them when they die. and lastly, 'krokodil' is a street name of the drug desomorphine, also called 'russian magic' or 'poor man's heroin'. this drug is quite popular in russia and it's, well, not good. so yeah, they could be calling the dictator a psycho on drugs.
one thing to note, however, is that this chorus is really angry and is sung by a dude dressed like stalin. one way that leaders justify their occupation efforts is by questioning the competency of the other nation's leaders. we see it in ukraine, how russia claims to be 'liberating it' from a 'fascist regime'. if we go with the interpretation that the song is sung by a dictator, then we get a picture of him singing those words about the leader of the country that he's trying to conquer, while to us viewers it seems that he's singing defacto about himself. it's a double edged sword.
so if we put it all together, it's a song inspired by nursery rhymes and the play 'mother courage', through another artist, about a child, or a childish dictator going to war. numerous lyrics point at russia, but some things are still vague enough that it could be applied to any bloodthirsty, war-hungry dictator. but this piece is not only a song, it's a performance.
4. The visuals
first, the costumes!
beautiful, isn't it? these costumes symbolize the four riders of apocalypse ('glad' - hunger, 'rat' - war, 'smrt' - death and 'kuga' - the plague), however, they added a fifth one, HDZ, which is a croatian political party, who is supposedly 'corrupt as hell'. the prime minister from this party was arrested for corruption, so i'm inclined to believe it.
when i was showing the clip to my mom, she stopped it here, looked at me and said 'that's stalin'. it's actually kind of scary, how much it looks like those stalin-cult-propaganda posters.
few things about this.
the performer in the background is croatian drag queen jovanka broz tituka. her name is a pun on jovanka broz, probably the most famous yugoslavia's first lady, and the word for prostitute. she is featured even more in the videoklip, it's great.
the composition of the projection is very similar to the typical composition for soviet propaganda posters. they use this format in the videoklip, too
and the moves of the dancer are literally military march. so they took the things that soviet union is recognized for (propaganda and military power) and made them into a perfect parody performed by a drag queen. it's mocking in the best way possible, because queer people are heavily persecuted in russia, so here their symbols of power are made into a laughing stock by a member of the very group they hate. it feels like a resistance, like a reclamation.
it wouldn't be let 3 if they didn't perform in drag. the mocking-military theme continues, since they are wearing uniforms painted and tailored to look like dresses.
but who's that guy in black? he's actually not a member of the band. he's another croatian artist, žanil tataj žak. this is not his first time doing a collaboration with the band. he looks like some kind of evil wizard, with how he creeps in from behind with missiles and then stands behind the band
just look at that dude. the word on his forehead is 'njinle'. it's written in šatrovački, which is an argot developed by some subcultures in yugoslavia and was used as a device of secret communication. when you switch the letters, you get 'lenjin'. so yeah, a crazy evil wizard.
the missiles are quite self-explenatory, we all know what that gentleman has in his military arsenal. here, however, i don't feel like they are portrayed like a thread, but rather like another mockery. i think this screenshot summarizes my thoughts on them pretty well
also this is possibly my favorite thing ever: five dudes marching in a drag costumes of military uniforms, singing the 'psychopat' chorus. it's a mockery, beautiful and gorgeous mockery of military might and war.
and the whole performance is finished by the band striping down to their undies while in the back a giant projection of jovanka dances among their flying heads. what a ride. i've read somewhere that the faces on their undershirts are young them, but it could be wrong. and of course the saluting. the final nail in the coffin of dictatorship's dignity.
i love this piece of art. it's ridiculous, because that's what it's meant to be, because it wants you to look at this caricature of power and military might and realize how stupid and pointless it is. it made people angry, but it was supposed to do that, because it's a satire and good satire always angers those who feel threatened by it.
10/10
(here and here are the videos, here's some article)
#eurovison 2023#let 3#mama šč#croatia#esc 2023#song analysis#thoughts#long post#sorry got the brain zoomies#ill prolly do similar thing to the czech song
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Panslavic Icons exhibition at @startgaleriabudapest
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