Tragic loss of the Red Army Choir

www.youtube.com ^ | Apr 7, 2013 | Red Army Choir

[ThinkingBuddha]

Tragically lost in Christmas day plane crash.

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“The Alexandrov Ensemble is an official army choir of the Russian armed forces. Founded during the Soviet era, the ensemble consists of a male choir, an orchestra, and a dance ensemble.”

“The Alexandrov Ensemble and the MVD Ensemble are the only groups with the right to claim the title “Red Army Choir”.[2]

On 25 December 2016, 64 members of the ensemble were killed when the Russian military aircraft on which they were travelling to perform for troops crashed into the Black Sea.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrov_Ensemble

[anton]

2 minutes after takeoff. That would be a SAM.

[luvbach1]

Yes, it was a loss. Not every Russian needs to be our enemy on a personal and human level; especially artists, whether military or not.

[Popman]

——Tragic loss of the Red Army Choir? Are you serious?——

So these people dying in a horrible way was a good thing?

They were a choir, not spetnaz

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Frank Marshall Davis

From Accuracy In Media | AIM.ORG

Obama's Red Mentor Praised Red Army
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | April 30, 2008

Barack Obama's childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Moscow-controlled Communist Party USA (CPUSA), wrote a poem dedicated to the Soviet Red Army. "Smash on, victory-eating Red Army," he declared. He also wrote poems attacking traditional Christianity and the work of Christian missionaries.

The "Red Army" poem goes beyond hoping for the communists to beat the Nazis in World War II and hails the Soviet revolution. It says:

Show the marveling multitudes
Americans, British, all your allied brothers
How strong you are
How great you are
How your young tree of new unity
Planted twenty-five years ago
Bears today the golden fruit of victory!

http://www.aim.org/aim-report/obamas-red-mentor-praised-red-army/

[ETL]

Their mission is/was to comfort the friggin Russian army.

[ETL]

Here's Trump's VP, Mike Pence, on the subject of Russia and KGB Putin, from the Oct 5th 2016 VP debate. ...

“When Donald Trump and I observe that, as I’ve said, in Syria, in Iran, in Ukraine, that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that’s stating painful facts. That’s not an endorsement of Vladimir Putin — that’s an indictment of the weak and feckless leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.”

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Also from the debate...

QUIJANO (Moderator): I want to turn now to Syria. Two hundred fifty thousand people, 100,000 of them children, are under siege in Aleppo, Syria. Bunker buster bombs, cluster munitions, and incendiary weapons are being dropped on them by Russian and Syrian militaries. Does the U.S. have a responsibility to protect civilians and prevent mass casualties on this scale, Governor Pence?

PENCE: The United States of America needs to begin to exercise strong leadership to protect the vulnerable citizens and over 100,000 children in Aleppo. Hillary Clinton’s top priority when she became secretary of state was the Russian reset, the Russians reset. After the Russian reset, the Russians invaded Ukraine and took over Crimea.

And the small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States to the point where all the United States of America — the greatest nation on Earth — just withdraws from talks about a cease-fire while Vladimir Putin puts a missile defense system in Syria while he marshals the forces and begins — look, we have got to begin to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.

It begins by rebuilding our military. And the Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We’ve got to work with Congress, and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

But about Aleppo and about Syria, I truly do believe that what America ought to do right now is immediately establish safe zones, so that families and vulnerable families with children can move out of those areas, work with our Arab partners, real time, right now, to make that happen.

And secondly, I just have to tell you that the provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. And if Russia chooses to be involved and continue, I should say, to be involved in this barbaric attack on civilians in Aleppo, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime to prevent them from this humanitarian crisis that is taking place in Aleppo.

There’s a broad range of other things that we ought to do, as well. We ought to deploy a missile defense shield to the Czech Republic and Poland which Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama pulled back on out of not wanting to offend the Russians back in 2009.

QUIJANO: Governor, your two minutes are up.

PENCE: We’ve just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they’re dealing with a strong American president.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html

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Again from the Oct 5, 2016 VP debate...

PENCE: What we’re dealing with is the — you know, there’s an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.

And the truth of the matter is, the weak and feckless foreign policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared a few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East.

And all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we’re not having talks anymore.

To answer your question, we just need American strength. We need to — we need to marshal the resources of our allies in the region, and in the immediate, we need to act and act now to get people out of harm’s way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/us/politics/vice-president-transcript.html

[hoosiermama]

Male chorus are held in great esteem through out the region. Remembering listening to the National Estonian chorus sing their national anthem and their request for prayers of freedom before the wall came down.
Will never forget the tears we all shed —chorus and audience

It was the keeper of the culture and the hearts of the native people even if it was a “State” chorus Keeper of the folk music like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NA-QVFJVut8

[Fai Mao]

Here they are performing with the Leningrad Cowboys

Sweet Home Alabama

[Popman]

——Their mission is/was to comfort the friggin Russian army.——

Forgive me for showing a modicum of human kindness in thinking their death was anything but a joyful event...

It won’t happen again...

[Scram1]

They have performed before the Pope too. RIP

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[luvbach1]

What pompadours!

[luvbach1]

Were all members of the chorus on that plane? Anyone know?

[hoosiermama]

Try counting members of the orchestra and chorus in the videos. It may have been a “traveling” group. Regardless it was the majority of the group.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

2 minutes after takeoff. That would be a SAM.

Or icing.