One of my favorite songs

[dangermousie]

Is this Russian song (the title, translated is "if there hadn't been a war"). It makes me think of one of my great-aunts, who was married to her husband for a month, until he went off to fight in WW2 and was killed. She never remarried.

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[lady_wu]

It's not fair! Why do you Russians have such great songs about war (whether about the devastations of war, or patriotic stuff)? Like, I just don't know of any Chinese songs along the same themes that have comparable emotional force.

That "our grandchildren would already be going to school" line made me all teary. :'-(

And then this reminded me of YWotYC's Seven/OTP. :'-(

[dangermousie]

Yes, but China has amazing epic shows while Russia - not really.

Oh, I managed to supress Seven/OTP :( I haven't progressed past ep 36 at all because I lack the will to deal with the misery :(

Yeah, when I think about what my grandparents' generation went through, I get goosebumps.