13 мгновений весны – Without Faith
13 мгновений весны = 13 Moments of Spring. Most likely a nod to Семнадцать мгновений весны (17 Moments of Spring), a Russian TV show from 1973 (see Wikipedia or Википедия).
Vera
Без (bez) means without, вера (vera) means faith. It becomes веры (genitive case) due to the без. This song says: without faith in yourself (без веры в себя) you lose yourself (ты себя потеряешь). Just move forward (иди только вперёд) and then you’ll find out (и тогда ты узнаешь).
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last updated 23-03-2021
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Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
