"Leaving Mother Russia" - by Safam

[@danceillusions13]

I'm Russian , and it's a shame for me to think how much harm my nation has done to the Jews.

[@johnerlich697]

Thanks for saying so.

[@Justadisciple502]

It was us leaving Russia with our 2-year old Max sitting on his father shoulders ( that picture brought tears to my eyes). We left for freedom of the West at the same time in July 1978, when Natan was sentenced...my heart was going out to him. He is my personal Hero. G-d bless Natan Sharansky!

[@Justadisciple502]

Thank you so much myzeidi for sending me this video. First of all it is because of mentshes like Natan Sharansky we were able to leave our "Mother Russia", because of their fight for freedom. We, my ex and I were were "pure relatives" (people, who went trough it, know what it is mean), for 2 long years.

[@Moishe3rd]

Was inspired by this song back around 1986... Still good.

[@TeachESL]

+G. Moishe3rd I loved all their songs. They also inspired me. Today is the anniversary of Sharansky's walk across the bridge where - instead of following orders: Walk straight across the bridge - he zig-zagged!

[@Moishe3rd]

+TeachESL Indeed. And today? The world has changed so much.

[@TeachESL]

+G. Moishe3rd It certainly has; but because the 'doors' of the Soviet Union/Russia opened, my ESL classes flourish because majority of my students are Russian speakers!

[@Moishe3rd]

+TeachESL I was thinking about the opposite side of no Soviet Union today... A whole generation of the world under 35 years of age have no clue as to the evils of Socialism and are cheerfully surrendering their lives to The Government for the "freedom" Not to struggle.

[@TeachESL]

+G. Moishe3rd Same thing happening in the US with Bernie Sanders getting support from young people. They have no idea what they're asking for............ Shabbat Shalom.

[@alma6911]

There's something about this song. It tugs at the heart.

[@alma6911]

Aliyah is in the air from everywhere!!!

[@jeffbklyn]

Excellent and moving song/video

[@zevys]

Group named "SAFAM", out of Mass. did a wonderful version of this.

[@garyhighley9022]

I remember this song playing on Christian TV back in the 90s. I just thought of it again today. Beautiful song

[@garyhighley9022]

I guess it was the 80s...not the 90s.

[@CarlDuke]

I remember when Sharansky was released and told to walk in a straight line across a bridge to freedom. In one last act of defiance he weaved from side to side in his heavy coat and Russian hat. I am also reminded of the joke about the 2 Jewish prisoners in the Soviet prison. The newer arrival tells the long time inmate that he has been sentenced to 15 years for doing nothing. The other replies, you must have done something, for doing nothing a Jew only receives 10 years in the Soviet Union.

[@HakunaMatata-os1og]

*THIS* is the reason Israel must continue to exist, and as a Jewish state. Just like the Kurds, Yazidi, Zoroastrians who suffer horribly because they lack a state to call their own, Jews finally retook their tiny ancestral home after 2000 years, and must keep it at all costs. I wish the same for the Kurds, Yazidi, and Zoroastrians, that they too may someday have their ancestral lands returned to them, to call their own. Everyone deserves freedom from persecution.

[@Justadisciple502]

Thank you danceillusions13. You are one of the very few who understands it.

[@HenryLondon]

I remember when the song came out. I played it on my radio program, The Hebrew and Jewish Music show, on WFMU-FM. I'm Moshe-in-the-Morning

[@Justadisciple502]

...And than suddenly they called us to "Ovir" and gave us 10 days to leave our "Mother Russia". I am so proud of being "kicked out"...;-)))

[@TeachESL]

Today is the anniversary of Sharansky's walk to freedom - 30 years ago today!

[@surfsidefl2000]

I have always loved this song.

[@daprinceofnegro2067]

it's amazing I was seven yrs of age when I first heard this song I though I'd have trouble lfinding it the yr was 1997 I heard this song in my sleep wow it's a real song.

[@Justadisciple502]

Thank you Iryna: I just get angry, people just don't understand, that for Jews it was stepmotherland...

[@reu6922123]

Amazing song.

[@mcfrdmn]

Lovely song

[@Jeabelson]

@stevenewman Steve: It was actually written in 1979, shortly after Sharansky was jailed

[@Justadisciple502]

Yes, my ancestors were in czar's army for 25 years: that how their families were allowed to settle in Moscow in the mid 1800s. They were musicians in army, later on at the end 1800 and until his death in 1927 my great grandfather played in Moscow Kamerny Jewish Theater, which Stalin closed in 1948...

[@borombon]

Sharansky is a great chess player, he defeated Kasparov (unless Garry let him win).

[@almondsist]

after viewing this video I have been reminded of the stories my parents told to the exodus from Russia and Poland..I am getting the message that maybe it is time to leave the United States of America

[@staciebabcock644]

Reminds me of songs my grandmother used to write and sing!

[@mullahomar007]

@MrRobokoper EXCELLENTE ,THATS THE TRUTH..AFTER STALIN DEATH THEY LOS THE GRIP....

[@josuecohen5445]

My Brothers Ashekenazi

[@joelhencken]

Yes. There are still Yiddish signs on the railway station, although only a fraction of the small population is Jewish. You won't be surprised to know it was one of the poorest regions of the USSR, and far from any major cities, where Jews might cause "trouble" for the regime.

[@danceillusions13]

Yes , that's what my parents told me.

[@joelhencken]

I think you misunderstood the intent of the song. "Mother Russia" is ironic, not "a pure mockery." It is a phrase used by people who loved their native land but were not loved back; it conveys the terrible ambivalence of leaving one's mother, for whom one feels love even if she is, or has been, abusive. There are many Russian patriotic writers who condemn the excesses of the Soviets, especially Stalin, and the Tsars before them.

[@rainawein]

camp modin brought me here

[@lilexotik9212]

Yooo same

[@joelhencken]

The one about not coming out the Russian army is no joke. Jewish boys were dragged out of their homes into the army for a service of 25 years.

[@ihave1]

Funny part is - by today this song is severely outdated. According to Boruh Gorin (Head of public relations dept. Federation of Jewish Commons of Russia) in 2003 approx. 10 thousands Jews left Russia to Israel. 50 thousands left Israel to Russia (source: BBC). By Oct. 2007 over 100.000 Jews already returned to Russia and Ukraine and additional approx. 70 000 live in Moscow 'temporarily'. Return immigration is growing, many left elderly parents in Israel for now and just visit them.

[@zammammeru]

You are a poor man... senza parole.

[@ihave1]

.. Meanwhile the Maariv newspaper reported that approximately a quarter of the Israeli population was considering emigration. Almost half of the country's young people were thinking of leaving the country, the report said... (Deutsche Presse-Agentur 04/20/2007) Most Russian speaking will obviously try to return to Russia an Ukraine - alternative destinations like USA and Germany are practically unavailable due to immigration restrictions.

[@stevenewman5406]

you need to re-listen to this song. it was orginally written over 20 years ago and it was about Anatole Schransky, when he left Russia. Get a clue

[@nastenkakoza1]

Moonraven09 sent me here, and knowing him, he only likes on scary stories vids, but THIS... wow :l no idea...

[@wanderingsoul4104]

Hatikvah chai eem ha yehudim v'ha oheva yerushayim!

[@eb3harmony]

powerful

[@joelhencken]

Do you have a source for this return of 100,000 Jews to the region? It's news to me.

[@zacksayegh9585]

The carousel's ending, the fiddler saw all and Sarah Too's itzy bitsy spider and their sacrifice, mazal by Zack Yitzchak Sayegh. The Daze is a hypnotic trance and condition of reality that dream design drugs of the occult place individuals for enjoyment of its sorcerers, those that bless. A term used to express tele-mender's theater that is ongoing and unquestionable plays of people for the play and not the people. The scripts are prepared for consciences as knowledge on how we are to perform or interact that is realized and is totally encompassing becoming an emotion as a messianic religious belief from enchantment blessings of its need and enjoyment and purpose. The conscience memory measured as an inverse that is permanent including instructions to dream becoming an inherent bond at different proportions. When by chants with the occult vapor it is over 1000 times more effective than any other phrase as all are instructions. The bewitchment to memory of such a magnitude is only by the culture and society that fosters addiction unconcern of any amount of witchcraft that is used until it becomes an understood tradition their regulation a custom that in reality passes from age to age, with concern for nothing more the culture was realized. A decision that every possibility was to be taken to publicize and annunciate each and every syllable of their thoughts and speech for an answer of what are they doing? It led to the realization of the need to develop a language that each letter had a meaning for composure for its stories when challenged can be discredited. The Russian culture's language was not accessible as infiltrators were lost to their blessings. The new language was Hebrew mutually accepted as the language chosen for the disagreement of witchcraft and its annunciation with the people who sing, claim and cry as a tradition in their homes and theaters of lands that are far away where they come to welcome. The play scripts for a savior were over eight and averaged a hundred years each composed for every culture's living period for his ongoing search. Eight hundred years of inconsideration of the world who are valueless to those that decide with tradition a nuisance within a world that dreams. Constantly being convinced that victory was won by independence movements days of festivities were declared with the appropriate emotion. Believed and loved saviors with shouts of the environs, leader, general or priest always unfolding as a sorcerers attempt to bring an individual to stand above tyranny's magic and free mankind from his magic only for applause for his imagination. Histories documented with tales from those reality plays that became a carousel on a calendar's time keeper the inherent memory of holidays and stories of its reason developed by notes written of belief that someone is watching over us for an opera of thoughts. This century's play is liberty's blessing to be achieved as the calendar carousel educating and influencing belief was planned to bring it to a stop. The final solution not imagined that all mankind are entitled to equal bewitchment sworn to their posterity. When stories are told for enjoyment by sorcerers for bewitchment of a dated fantasy to challenge the town's memory of what really occurred only for guessing what portion was real bringing laughing joy to the organizes and realized insanity when explained as the aggravating hope setting traditions. The one who arises from hypnosis's inherent bond to the conscience has no peers to his anger. A life enslaved to count memory by minutes finally with a faucet for his dreams he mastered with one remaining addiction, humanity has not been conceived. None of Russia's unauthorized enchanting ticketholders are free from accusations and none are noble and none are ignored. When all spells of script savior are enchanted along with that of the ability to author its story as a non-fiction, political platform or theorem of society the ride will stop. The obsession to addict for life's plays to enjoy is part of the reason for unending employ of unending apprenticing of chemists hypnotized for inherent obedience to frolic. The enchanters also train roaches not by blessings only touching teaching where to crawl and as a simple biology it is permanent. They are placed in cylinders prepared under refrigerators, within closets and cabinets of pots; humidity change sends them on their way waiting for up to 5 years. They grow in place prepared by trainers that were blessed by a neighbor and god, never needing a messiah. The telephone menders are telephone-hypnotists that abundantly call to sorcerer-chemists and to their consciences when in need of assistance for what they limit to his agreed professional specialty that god decided. The chemist never realizes his hypnosis is not nature and will always come and when his behavior is told by Mendel will always be astounded. A hypnotic instruction given over the phone line results in being spoken too and begins with the bewitchment of one day at school or work by the chemist to prepare acceptance of instruction that none of the participants can avoid. The hypnotic transmissions could be daily for up to a year when a refresh enchantment is needed and easily acquired. About 8,000,000 spells a day are made in the U.S. by acquaintances that are Russian or their prey. It begins with a term that awakens acceptance by targeted people that are harmed during indoctrination that is called mending a period that they are not focused. A Mendel may be blessing within sight by a conversation not always realizing his actions or influence keeping to the custom's tradition an ageless regulation never caring for anything else. A blessing by supposed citizens that convert teenage women to a marriage of prostitution in a conversion never being able to leave and unimportant that she has not achieved happiness only benefiting the culture's philosophy of sorcery for the sake of sorcery. A call such as " Nadia this is Shalom how many rolls of toilet paper should the American president have " is real becoming a journal's expose as they had the idea never remembering the call that indoctrinated it. The play fiddler on the roof introduced Russians with a new identity to uncover their society. The Jewish were sorcerers and the czar Russia's ruler needed to get them out caring for nothing else as sorcery never stopped being rampant in his regime. Judaism was designed to flamboyantly publicize his failures that never end in a production he initiated that was grandiose. The Jewish star shown was the symbol of chemistries tetrahedral for a methane vapor that is the occult drug and the religion's flag. The Torah as planned was to be scrolled on parchment unseen when referred as a holy book that prayers to prophets read as practice to chant.The scripture to be bait understood only by a small group of Americans to witness, emulate as participants and apart as bothersome never knowing they were infiltrators, spiders among wolves that would make the occult realized. The fiddler balanced confidently by the roof's chimney sees all and asks about these people, Sarah too? The town never understood their professed religion waiting to be taught while chanting prayers. When a marriage was arranged it was to the man and his profession with the entire town participating with the marriage and the ceremony. When their chants resound to the others at the annoyance of the czar he also asks Sarah too? He announced that Anatevka's bonds of marriage will not bring happiness the town's theater term for its meaning from the holy book understood "the answer is to end it permanently". The show, the performance and its final curtain the fiddler with an organ and a bow resulting in a web of hypnosis beginning to be placed on the czar's global population of 400,000,000. With his unrealized assistance at his insistence by a believed greeting always to share and our home is your home their papa's tradition and not always the others. As all traditions a reminder from Abraham the circumcision when performed is only once never a mistake and is for life. Reply Forward

[@eb3harmony]

wow

[@robertkerr1264]

I agree it is time to the United States and go to Israel!

[@pookerville]

Don't blame the Jews for Communism! The Jews have suffered wherever they've gone around the world. Let us stand with them and help them.

[@danceillusions13]

Whoever the hell would thumbs down my previous comment , I don't know. :(

[@stevenewman5406]

@MrRobokoper you cant really be serious! get a history book dude!

[@zacksayegh9585]

Trouble or trivia by Zack Sayegh. State of Israel are you in trouble? We are here to help. Jew is a spirit or ghost within a host a syllable taken from Jehovah a god apprentice who fostered consciences with instructions heard or fantasies if needing additional explanations. A state linguistically proud of its meaningful purpose in composure not of words or letters only syllable. J was the one god of Israel chosen for perpetual divinity from the academy of yeshiva. An eternal divinity intern honor for cult and country on understanding how to achieve a better life for others as a concept. With the academy desiring belief of the reality of life that is absolutely only once yet teaches of a world to come as a friendship group that is a blessing of comradeship. Israel and its citizens the Israelis the soul's authentic board of trustees foster the apprentice as they will always have their prepared attention needs available, me, me, me, ah, ah, ah. Gentile is a person not of the Jewish race developed from the meaning genie a disappearing fairy found in Eastern Europe's stories and is why the fabulists are adamant about gentiles expelling Jews that resulted in the establishment of the new European entertainment program with a theme park as a country that is termed a state and never sure of what. Fairy's possessed are fairy's known, talk and would sing at all appearances of talismans, Jewish is ghost-wish who are they? A question every Israeli asked to one another and never hearing an answer that has purpose within their entire country and citizenship. That preceded and proceeded our study on how to show concern while listening to a conversation about 6,000 000 Jews disappearing thinking it was an educational documentary and not historical and then lambasted for paying attention. Ghost wish? Ritual slaughter approved for mustard and a knish? It was so ridiculous that we also demanded to know who we were as none remembered. Zionism the religious encroachment of Russian philosophy for cult recruitment, the horror to any nation influencing the end to all what is sanctified for its citizens and they too were welcomed. That continued about holding Israel's flagpole in high esteem in a mental opera that was impossible without the emotion of belief that we should not have developed as a non-commonsensical pride in carrying the flag in New York parades. The star of David to glorify their eternal future as if Robert Preston was the trumpeter by Americans of posterity who heard to be adamant in demonstrating for a non-existent Soviet Jewry and Skippy's peanut butter to have kosher peanuts at the same demonstration. Israel you took too much, State of Israel you are in trouble.

[@CarlDuke]

There is a black humor joke about 2 Jews in a Russian prison. One asks the other, a recent entrant, what his crime was. The second answers nothing, I was sentenced to 15 years for doing nothing. The first replies--you must have done something, for doing nothing one only gets 10 years. And there was the saying in the Russian Jewish community about miliary service, that a Jew goes into the Russian army, but he never comes out, at least not alive.

[@mullahomar007]

@pookerville LIES.

[@LexMakarov]

Ты не русский.