In Kharkiv, Russian bastards bombed the historic Pushkinskaya Street. There’s definitely an irony to them destroying the street named after the pedophile creep Pushkin of whom they are so proud.
When I saw footage of the ruins, I thought, “At least, my father didn’t have to see it.” He loved that street and immortalized it in works of literature.
Shame on you, facile monkeys, who refer to the efforts to stop this wanton destruction as “warmongering.”
The street will finally be renamed after the Ukrainian philosopher Hryhory Skovoroda.
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“ussian bastards bombed”
It’s clear they no longer have any kind of goals they’re trying to achieve… just nihilistic destruction for the sake of destruction. It’s like something from dystopian SF… a weird alien race that pursues destruction of imaginary enemies and in the process destroys themselves (fans of putin have no idea of the social and demographic destruction russia is inflicting on itself and russians themselves simply shrug and think of pushkin and how great they are and make plans for a vacation apartment in Mariupol…).
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Not a day goes by when I don’t feel stunned by the abysmal intelligence of Russians. It’s pretty incredible to observe.
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Completely OT, but… any chance you could help me figure out how to pronounce the slavonic “memory eternal”?? I can find the cyrillic “Вічная Пам’ять” and feed it through google translate and get a reasonable (I think) pronunciation, but can’t find the cyrillic spelling to go with the thing I have transcribed as “blazenny pokoj” in order to do the same. And I don’t want to mangle it at a memorial service :(
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Blazhenny pokoy. Vichnaya pam’yat’.
Zh is pronounced like j in the French “j’adore.”
I’m so sorry you’ve had a death in the parish.
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Oh, wonderful! It is OK– it was not anybody I know. But I am the only chanter available, and I’ve only ever done the memorial in Greek, so I’m having to re-learn all the music. And I don’t want to botch it.
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–and boy, that sounded callous! Sigh. It’s the 40-day for a fellow who did not go to our church. It matters to his family, and I want to do a good job.
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Oh, scratch that. Found (finally) a clear recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Olk-TczReI
Now I just have to figure out what all the *other* words are, or fit the ones I have to the music I’ve been given. The text I have is just “Vichnaya pamyat, vichnaya panyat, blazenny pokoj, vichnaya pamyat” but every single recording has more words in it than that
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