When the Red Army Choir became a Metro flashmob
mainMany of those who took part in this 2013 video died in the hideous Black Sea air crash on Christmas Day.
May their souls find eternal rest.
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I believe at 1:09 we see the Soloist Vadim Ananyev, who was one of 2 choir members who at the last minute didn’t board the flight. Vadim’s wife had just given birth and he stayed home to help her.
Another member discovered his passport was out of date & wasn’t allowed to board.
http://nypost.com/2016/12/26/expired-passport-saves-russian-choir-members-life/
I guess that by now the Russians would know how we feel when they via their ‘rebels’ in the Ukraine shoot down a commercial jetliner which flies over that country and kills over 200 – many of them Australian citizens. On that plane was one South Australian family with grandfather and two children. Shattered lives through vicious military aggression.
All loss of life through military and political aggression is cruel and pointless, and to be deplored and mourned, whoever perpetrates it. But I think you might find, Sue, that a sense of devastating loss is still deeply embedded in the Russian psyche as a result both of WW2, or the Great Patriotic War as they call it, and the murderous policies of former rulers directed at their own people. To recognise this does not condone or excuse anything.
Excellent response, Mr Phillips.
I think you totally side-stepped my point that it was Russia who was responsible for shooting down that aircraft, which is a whole world away from an accident. I’m yet to hear either an acknowledgement or an apology for those 200 plus lives.
Nice try though.
Where is the conclusive evidence for Sue’s allegation, exactly?
More terrible news for the world of music as 2016 draws to a close.
I’m pretty sure this is the other Red Army Choir– the MVD ensemble, not the Alexandrov ensemble, which was the one in the crash.