Germany mangles Russian anthem

Germany mangles Russian anthem

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norman lebrecht

June 09, 2022

Things started going coal-shaped when Angela Merkel told her band of honour to play ‘anything you can do, we can do better’.

Comments

  • Jeroen Smits says:

    This is obviously a fake. Just look at the movements of the conductor, which are totally out of sync with the sound.

  • Matthias says:

    Weird joke, what’s the point?

    Here is the real version:
    https://youtu.be/QvK7oKVaJis?t=175

  • Karl says:

    No one could sing it better than Nikolai Volkoff. I miss the good old days.

  • Gustavo says:

    Having reached this level, what about this?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWGZdYNpaSo

  • M b says:

    Is this The Onion? Love a good bit of satire /s

  • Nicholas says:

    From a different and less jocular perspective this is emblematic of Germany mangling everything it touches such as their own economy and the EU as it continues to be America’s poodle.

  • Thomas M. says:

    We should have mangled Putin instead when we had the opportunity.

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