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Ukraine War Music

Bayraktar

A Ukrainian-language song from the war (with English subtitles).

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It's simple music with simple lyrics about what I expect are relatively minor victories (the destruction of some Russian invading forces by Turkish-made Bayraktar drones). But I think the very simplicity of the defiance, coupled of course with the reality of what's going on, makes it oddly affecting. [UPDATE: The video I originally posted, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15nzkGlidyg, was taken off because of a copyright complaint; here's a replacement, though it has just the sound and the subtitles.] [FURTHER UPDATE: I had a chance to look for a better video, and found one for which I liked the videos but thought the subtitles were suboptimal; I'm including it immediately below, followed by the one with just the audio and the subtitles.] [FURTHER UPDATE, 3/22/2022: Both the videos are gone, but here's a replacement, thanks to @craigsuperstar on Twitter:]

https://youtu.be/bKEmRiq-8Mg

The subtitles also help the Ukrainian-language lyrics work for people (like me) who know Russian but not Ukrainian, though they of course also make the message comprehensible for English speakers.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.