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And to expend on it for a bit, in order for them to use the iconic Tiger, a scenario with plenty of entrenched infantry is much more appropriate than any mobility-based warfare. Great tool to force a breakthrough, even greater tool to prevent a breakthrough.

For instance, the handful of combat ready Tigers deployed with the 502nd during the battles around Lake Ladoga in '43 were used almost exlusively in two roles: either to strengthen entrenched friendly infantry against attacking armor or to throw Soviet infantry out of trenches seized in previous assaults.

The entire area of operations around Leningrad, including the supply lines around Lake Ladoga, was one big trench warfare, with massive use of artillery. Armoured spearheads only enabled the following infantry to advance from one line of trenches to the next. Extensive breakthroughs and large scale encirclements were only possible in the steppes further south. The marshes and dense forests up north reduced everything to a meat grinder.

>> ^Payback:

Upvote for Fringe version at 2:20. I love Dr. Howoose.


Men in Black and the pug at the end!

Thanks for the promote!

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Yeah, what are you doing you socialist? Helping people? What a tyrant, what a communist dictator. Take your hammer and sickle back to Leningrad, In America we choose death over cooperation. Give me back my insane hospital bills. If an American is weak enough to get sick, they deserve to suffer the financial consequences! They deserve the right to go bankrupt and lose their house! FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM...

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The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

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The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil’, or, better yet, [Cyrillic redacted -- ed.]. According to his Russian Wikipedia page, Hill was born in Smolensk in 1934, and finished his studies at the Leningrad Conservatory in 1960. By 1974 he had been named a People’s Artist of the USSR, and in 1981 he was awarded the Order of the Friendship of Peoples. He is best known for his interpretations of the songs of the Soviet composer, Arkadii Ostrovskii. As for the peculiar name, I could find no information, but imagine that he is descended from the English elite that had established itself in western Russian cities by the 17th century. He is not a defector of the Lee Harvey Oswald generation. He is entirely Russian.

The song he is interpreting, “I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words. I have seen a number of comments online, ever since a flurry of interest in Hill began just a few days ago, to the effect that this routine must have been meant as a critique of Soviet censorship, but in fact vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.

Well, at least this conflict once again shows how rediculous the concept of UN resolutions has become.
The list of war crimes and crimes against humanity grows steadily, yet nothing is done about it, because a) the UN Security Council is blocked by the US veto (not that its resolutions would be worth anything anyway), b) the UN General Assembly's convictions aren't worth the paper they're printed on due to lack of enforcement and c) the International Criminal Court is out of the game, because Israel withdrew from the Rome Statute in '02.

Last I read, they were up to 500.000 without access to drinking water, right? Maybe Uri Avnery's comparison of Gaza with Leningrad wasn't so far fetched after all.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'leningrad, cowboys, cover, these, boots, nancy, sinatra, 1992, aki, kaurismaki' to 'leningrad cowboys, cover, finland, boots, nancy sinatra, 1992, 90s, aki kaurismaki, hair' - edited by Eklek

1. Doris Day - I'll be Home for Christmas
2. Hammerfall - The Champion
3. Yngwie Malmsteen - Andante
4. In Flames - Reflect the Storm
5. Scorpions - Always Somewhere
6. 50 Cent - G-Unit Soldiers - Make sure to crank up the volume for this one!
7. Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time
8. Weird Al - Like a Surgeon
9. Rush - Mr. Soul
10. Leningrad Cowboys - Sauna

In my defense on #6;
If you haven't watched the video: Imported my friends whole music folder.
If you have watched it: I couldn't resist

Agreed with Octopussy, it was Leningrad Cowboys with the Red Army choir.
This concert was held right in the heart of Helsinki, the other one was held in Berlin. The same Red Army had marched into Finland in the second world war.

The band is from Finland and they are sort of making parody of the Soviet Union! This and the choir singing with them in Sweet Home Alabama is so ironic and so nice.

should be tagged "Leningrad Cowboys"