"Politruk" Estonian Anti-Soviet Song

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[@daniels0376]

Politruk means like commissar, not politician

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

"Politician" is not the best translation of politruk. Politruks in Stalinist times were guys not in political agencies, but in army, and their job was to keep motivation in soldiers and judge the ones that appear to be collaborationists or defectors. No wonder why Nazis and other forces hated politruks so much)))

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

In most cases this word is used without translation as "politruk"

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

By the way, "politruk" is a shortage of "politicheskiy rukovoditel' (политический руководитель)" - a political supervisor

[@Maxim_Kuzin]

@Suomi Perkele! In 1940 commissars positions were eliminated and restored only in 1941, during the darkest times when army needed motivation. Talking about pompolits, comissars, politruks and later zampolits, it's important to understand their role in the war. One German Nazi author wrote after war that they were "the most important people in the Red Army, supervising that soldiers would fight till the last drop of blood, in most cases they were cruel but didn't let themselves slacken." Nazi had a full-scale operation against all kinds of political supervisors in the Red Army, both politruks and zampolits (commissars). They had to be destroyed in short, without any judgements, because Nazi understood how important were they for the Red Army When one Nazi German military officer asked whether they shood destroy politruks or pompolits. (because the directive ordered to kill politruks which did no longer exist in the Red Army) The answer was simple: all. I never supported deportation of finno-ugric people or repressions, but having such ideologists in the Army was one of the most important reasons why we won the Great Patriotic War and saved the whole world from fascism. And no wonder why Nazis and other supporting forces were giving such a strong propoganda against politruks, they understood how dangerous politruks were to them))

[@Mira-K]

While Nazis obviously were among the worst war criminals in history, of all the Hitler's atrocities, the Kommissarbefehl (shoot all politruks upon capture) was arguably the only one that was a favor to humanity, including Soviet society.

[@Mira-K]

@Sash Lilac Said member of a nation with 500 years tradition of murderous secret police (with special intensity in last 100) and already over a century of completely and repeatedly rewriting history overnight to fit party line at the present. A nation which itself had a joke that "in Soviet Union you never know what will happen yesterday". A nation whose government is so honest and just that it threatens 15 years of prison for calling war a war- and yet loving it dearly and hating anyone not wanting to suffer the same fate. Not every nation has stockholm syndrome like Russians do.

[@Marlin123]

It's truely facinating how they managed to capture a picture of the biggest crowed in Estonian history for these images.

[@serbianpatriot8703]

Respect from Serbia. 🇷🇸🤝🏻🇪🇪 🤚🏻🦅

[@exx998]

I love Serbia! 🇪🇪🤝🇷🇸

[@Arthur_Proportions]

"and we sent them to stalin to piss him off" one of the best lines in this song

[@Germany-canada]

🇱🇻 Love igaunija from latvia

[@VMan29397]

Anyone else notice a trend of how a lot of these Eastern European countries write anti-Russian/anti-Soviet songs its as if they sont like them🤔

[@kuutamox]

🇪🇪💞🇫🇮

[@pacjenthdmapping9719]

This song sounds so familiar, and I don't know from where 😭

[@loot_bandit9485]

Why does the beat sound so familiar?

[@zerstorer88]

The same tune as in the old German march Die Ganze Kompanie (probably well before WW1)

[@AnalPro74]

​@@zerstorer88 I checked it out and It's anything but familiar

[@AirsoftFanforREAL]

My fav so far

[@kingcrafteroderderfahradtu7331]

Love how most Estonian revolution songs are „good luck taking the Forrest Soviet. You’ll need it“

[@joelmillerurena7874]

Many respect from Albania🇦🇱🇦🇱🇪🇪🇪🇪

[@egertroos]

Greetings from Estonia

[@AnalPro74]

Much*

[@Sp9i]

@@AnalPro74Does it really matter so much?

[@tomsharpe2251]

​@@Sp9iif you want to speak a language why would you want to speak it badly

[@Sp9i]

@@tomsharpe2251 I think I had a stroke reading your reply

[@a_wild_mrUrlatore_appeared]

Rispect from Italy 🇮🇹🤝🇪🇪

[@timothymorehouse1255]

Awesome 🇸🇪❤️🇪🇪

[@oltzu5206]

A finnish person here. Politruk is a derogatory name used of russian armymen dn general or atleast the high ranking ones

[@glitchstotle]

All my respect to this song

[@tthkkkkk]

Awesome song

[@shqiphorizon8351]

Respect From🇬🇧🇬🇧🇪🇪🇪🇪

[@captainpelayo7937]

Serve you right Russia

[@AnalPro74]

KUI VABARIIK ME MAAL IS WHEN REBUBLIC IN OUR LAND!!!

[@AnalPro74]

How They hell you can't translate

[@Geexey]

@@AnalPro74 see pole otsetõlge

[@AnalPro74]

@@Geexey Sul on õigus

[@AnalPro74]

@@Geexey See on väärtölge

[@eduardpeeterlemming]

Just go to some random party, play this song and everyone would dance

[@ThanaphatJannet]

very late that you clip

[@EstoniaEnthusiast]

yo where do you get the photos?

[@Aahotepre3]

Google, as usual.

[@EstoniaEnthusiast]

@@Aahotepre3 Ah, I do this but I guess I’m using the wrong keywords,

[@tomasneumann5807]

SLAVA UKRAJINĚ A ESTONSKU.

[@AnalPro74]

Nad Not ta