To be well informed about the political situation in Donbass, Ukraine: read the book: “What I Saw In Ukraine – 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer” written by Benoît Paré. From 2015 to 2022, he worked as an unarmed civilian observer for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the Donbas, making him one of the very few Western observers deployed for extended periods on both sides of the contact line. Due to what he perceived as a systematic pro-Ukrainian bias of the mission, he eventually resigned. Read the full text here and watch the on YouTube published discussions and interview with Benoît Paré, collected in this playlist
[2020]
текст песни / Testo / Lyrics / Paroles / Sanat :
Vladimir Leonidovič Skobtsov [Владимир Леонидович Скобцов]1,2
музыка / Musica / Music / Musique / Sävel:
Mixail Xoxlov [Михаил Хохлов]
в исполнении / Interpreti / Performed by / Interprétée par / Laulavat:
Natal’ja Kačura [Наталья Качура], Margarita Lisovina [Маргарита Лисовина]
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YouTube video information, machine–translated
“Donbass is ours.”
Music by M. Khokhlov, lyrics by V. Skobtsov.
Performed by soloists of the Donetsk State Academic Musical and Drama Theater named after M. Brovun – Natalia Kachura and Margarita Lisovina.
The theater’s actors Ivan Bessmoly, Pavel Bodrov, and Elena Lesogorova also took part in the filming of the video.
Cameramen: I. Kuzemko, R. Novikov
Producers: A. Bernatovich, V. Levchuk
General Producer: S. Pelyanicin
The First Republican Channel of the DPR expresses gratitude for their assistance in the production of the video to the DPR National Migration Service, the DPR Ministry of Information, the DPR Ministry of Culture, and the Donetsk Republican Museum of Local History.
The following text is a machine translation of an in the Italian language written explanation of the reason why this song is added to the website “Anti War Songs“, written by Riccardo Gullotta. The Admin of “Sustainable Politics” has added essential notes where needed, because the text is not entirely aligned with what we have learned to know in the meantime as absolute facts. The following text was published in or earlier than 2022. The exact date is not mentioned.
Origins of the song
The song was performed for the first time in Donetsk in September 2020 to celebrate the liberation of Donbass from Nazi troops in September 1943 after the bloody Battle of Saur-Mogila [Ukrainian: Савур-могила, Russian: Саур-Могила].
Admin: |[Wikipedia – English: Savur-Mohyla, Russian: Саур-Могила, Ukrainian: Савур-могила. ATTENTION: an authentic Ukrainian Wikipedia page concerning this subject, does not exist. It is a UK Wikipedia page, as you can see in the URL of that page on Wikipedia. It is a fact that Wikipedia is not per se correct, truthful, in its category politics. UK is severe anti-Russian and guilty of unprecedented western collective = NATO propaganda. The content of the by UK published text can be mixed with misinformation, and it is important to read it with caution. Rus Data: Мемориальный комплекс «Саур-Могила».
In 2014, the same location was the scene of fierce fighting between the Ukrainians of the 25th Airborne Brigade and the separatists of the self-proclaimed Republic of Donbass. The hill changed hands eight times in a month, until the Donbass separatists finally took control of it on August 26, 2014.
The song quickly gained great popularity and is considered the iconic song of Donbass.
Opinions
In the exacerbated climate of an eight-year war, dating back to 2014,
Admin: This is an indication that the article was written in 2022.
it’s understandable how, judging by the ratings, the citizens of Donetsk have overwhelmingly identified with the words of the author, the poet Skobtsov, a native of the region. In short, it’s a patriotic song we intend to keep our distance from, as we would with any artistic expression that gives too much prominence to flags and diversity in an exclusive manner.
In this case, we are urged to go further and express our clear dissent. We absolutely dislike its use for propaganda (unless, perhaps, it was even commissioned). However, the other side isn’t joking when it comes to propaganda. They are certainly more sophisticated and more abreast of the techniques and strategies of mass communication.
Admin: |[Read: Professor Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism, and Dr. Jonas Tögel: NATO’s Cognitive Warfare]|
Moreover, since this is the side under attack, certain “approximations” are overlooked, especially since raising a few timid objections would make one look like a foolish servant of the tyrants of the day.
Note the titanic bronzes in the clip, symbols of warrior virtue, a perennial warning to any reckless pacifists; the thug in camouflage, with his steel jaw and lectorial-style chest plates. The recurring phrase “Donbass / Russia / Moscow is with us, and so is God” is to be dismissed with disdain.
Admin: |[The video, the song and the lyrics can only then be understood, if one is up to date about what really happened in Ukraine, and therefore it is a must to read: What I Saw In Ukraine – 2015-2022 – Diary of an International Observer written by Benoît Paré. From 2015 to 2022, he worked as an unarmed civilian observer for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in the Donbas, making him one of the very few Western observers deployed for extended periods on both sides of the contact line. Due to what he perceived as a systematic pro-Ukrainian bias of the mission, he eventually resigned. Read the full text here and watch the on YouTube published discussions and interview with Benoît Paré, collected in this playlist.]|
Aside from the resonance of the terrible “Gott mit uns” (God with us) that evokes the Teutonic Knights and the Nazi paraphernalia of the Third Reich, we are fed up with anyone’s enlistment of God. For everyone, it is an infamy that clashes with common sense, a charade intended to brainwash the masses; for believers who have not given up on reflection (thus excluding fundamentalists), it is absolute blasphemy in many respects.
Admin: |[The pre-occupied western attitude / mindset of an outsider, the author, concerning the people of Donbass, within the context of their belief, religion, and what they have suffered, is understandable, because of the impact of severe western propaganda |[Dr. Jonas Tögel: NATO’s Cognitive Warfare]|, on every single western citizen, spread via the mainstream media, and western politicians. However, the link that has been created by the author of the article between the text of the song, and the rhetoric of the WWII German leader and his people, is out of line, completely. Those with the WWII ideology do not live in Donbass, but in Kiev. For more info, watch the list with documentaries about Ukraine, and specifically about Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian fascist, who is still honoured, every year, in Kiev, and praised in all schoolbooks in Ukraine, as a national hero. The existence of Neo Nazis in Kiev, since the Maidan Massacre and coup in Ukraine, is a fact, and not even hidden.]|
A few words on Donbass
Admin: The following text is a very short summary of the history of Ukraine. Jeffrey D. Sachs recommends in his article: The Ninth Anniversary Of The Ukraine War, published February 28, 2023, the documentary: Ukraine On Fire (Igor Lopatonok, Oliver Stone), published in 2016. Duration: 1:33:57
The first traces of settlements date back to the 7th century BC, when they were founded by the Scythians. Then came the nomads of the western steppes (between the Danube and the Altai). In the 16th century, the region was governed by the Zaporizhian Cossacks in the north and the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate in the south. In 1793, at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, the region was annexed by Catherine II to Russia. The event that significantly influenced the region’s subsequent development was the Crimean War of 1856. Indeed, coal imports from England, an enemy country, ceased. The Tsarist empire found itself forced to turn its attention to the Donbas coal basin. With the development of the railway network and the establishment of the steelworks in the late 19th century, the region became the iron and steel hub of the Russian Empire.
In 1917, the Ukrainian People’s Republic was proclaimed in Kiev, pro-Kerensky and anti-Bolshevik. The Ukrainian Bolsheviks fled Kiev and took refuge in Donetsk, where they founded the “Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Socialist Republic” as a reaction to the Ukrainian People’s Republic. It lasted only a short time, less than a month, before being overwhelmed by the advance of the Germans who then occupied Ukraine. After the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the civil war between the Reds and the Whites from 1918 to 1920, the Soviets refused to recognize the independence of the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Republic. They made it an oblast of Ukraine to promote its Russification.
Stalin’s forced industrialization led to significant development in the region at the expense of Ukrainian peasants, many of whom were deported to Siberia and decimated by the famine of 1932.
For the sequel, namely the civil war that began in 2014, see the report’s notes below.
Regarding the complexities of the Minsk agreements, it must be noted that they have not been respected by either side.
Admin: |[Benoît Paré writes on his LinkedIn profile ONLY about “the sabotage of the Minsk agreements by Ukraine”.]|
The most tangled knot (the conundrum, as the Anglo-Saxons call it) concerns the sequence of provisions set out in the protocol. For Ukraine, the military provisions must be implemented first, followed by the political ones; for Russia, the opposite is true.
Specifically, for Ukraine, the roadmap was: a ceasefire, Russian withdrawal from Donbas, return of the Russian-Ukrainian border to Ukrainian control, free and fair elections in Donbas, recognition of the territories in question as a result of a decentralization program, but not a special status with the ability to challenge them in parliament.
Admin: |[To know the exact details of what happened in Ukraine: read The Russia Ukraine War And Its Origins, From the Maidan to the Ukraine War, a scientific research of professor Ivan Katchanovski, and published on Springer Nature Link. (Open Access.). Also watch “Donbass“, a documentary, made in January 2015, by Anne-Laure Bonnel.]|
Footnotes
- English machine-translation: Vladimir Skobtsov
—- Skobtsov Vladimir Leonidovich – author of the Donbass national anthem “Donbass is behind us”, poet, bard, member of the Union of Writers of Russia. The great Junna Moritz called him the Orpheus of Donbass.
Without leaving his fighting native Donetsk for 11 years, Vladimir Skobtsov wrote and published books of poems about Donbass – “Unconquered”, «Metal Resistance», «Donbass Za us (lyrics: Donbass is behind us https://stihi.ru/2020/09/08/8426)», co-authored many collections, translated into foreign languages.
By decree of the President of Russia, for dedication, personal contribution to supporting the moral and psychological state and strengthening the morale of the participants of the Northern Military District, he was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, laureate of the patriotic literary award “Prokhorovskoe Field”, laureate of the Russian Ministry of Defense award in the field of culture and art, laureate of the Orthodox Literary Prize of S. Nilus and other domestic awards.
In the SVO he took part in the position of adviser to the head of the project “Detachment named after Maxim Krivonos”.
Songs based on poems by Vladimir Skobtsov are performed by Sergei Galanin, Alexander Marshal, Yulia Chicherina, rock bands «SerGa», «Demarsh», «More», ensembles; Black Sea and Pacific fleets and others.
Junna MORITZ
LEGENDARY ORPHEUS OF DONBASS
“We didn’t recognize”.
Impudent will
The one under whom
were you shaking?.
A. Pushkin “To the Slanderers of Russia”
1831
Poetry is the language of secret knowledge, the Old and New Testaments are written in this language, all the sacred books, all the myths of the peoples of the world, where the latest news of the day is both for tomorrow and for the day after tomorrow.
Pushkin has a hundred times less high technology and a hundred times “worse” rhyme than today’s rhymes, who, with the delight of mutual admiration, recognized the brazen will of exactly who Russia should tremble under. Today, Russian poetry is divided into those who recognized and those who did not recognize this brazen will of the one under whom to tremble!..
The wonderful poet Vladimir Skobtsov did not recognize, and worse, he is the legendary Orpheus of Donbass, the great Resistance to trembling! Magnificent quotes of his poetry will survive any statute of limitations, but now I don’t want to turn him into a quotation tank and into a quotation bank. And I want you, the precious Reader, to see in this book a dear, living, reverent Man who has a strong, thoroughbred talent, God’s gift, the language of secret knowledge. And regardless of any events, such a poet is always a historical event, his poetry turns the reality of the hegemonster into invalidity!.. This is the language of secret knowledge – how not to tremble!.. ↩︎ - Lyrics in English: (Machine-translation)
Donbass is behind us
Vladimir Skobtsov
The Beast woke up in pitch darkness
And the Beast to God is called the price
Everyone caved in – and the brothers in Christ,
Everything caved in, but not my country.
It was a fruitful leap year
And the blood of death was drunk, drunk
The sky bent from the clouds of lead
Everything caved in, but not my country.
Here the fathers were not betrayed to memory
Here they did not give up their grandfather’s land
At what cost – you won’t find words
Here they did not take care of life for the Fatherland.
And again Russian power is in the hands of
Both life and death for the Motherland are red
Stands and keeps the firmament for centuries
My unconquered country.
Let him be destined to perish on the cross,
But you can’t bring us to our knees
In the bloody pole one for all
Donbass stands and holds the firmament.
Chorus:
There is a flame in the middle of the sky
And the choice is strict –
Russia is with us,
And God is with us!
In the middle of the sky, flame,
And the choice is strict –
Donbass is behind us,
And God is with us!
Donetsk, 2020 ↩︎
Additional:
Today, June 7, 2026, per month, 40,000 Ukrainians die in a war that the Kiev-Azov-Neo-Nazi regime and its western allies want to continue. NATO pushes Ukraine/Kiev to continue a fight, a war, that could have been avoided, if Boris Johnson would not have travelled to Istanbul, in 2022, with the Washington mission to eliminate the peace deal that was signed.
