Anastasia Dmitruk
Anastasia Dmitruk (Ukrainian: Анастасія Дмитрук, Russian: Анастасия Дмитрук; born 31 January 1991, in Nizhyn) is a Ukrainian poet who writes in the Russian and Ukrainian languages.[1] She writes poetry and has worked as an information security specialist after graduating from Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.[2] Never ever can we be brothers, written in Russian, has become her most widely cited poem.
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 Никогда мы не будем братьями! | |
| Це моя і твоя війна | |
| Небесній сотні присвячується | |
| Письмо соседу | |
| Я нам мира у Бога вымолю | |
| I will pray for peace (song) | |
| Небо падає! |
The poem was written in response to the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. The poem celebrates the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and rejects "Great Russia":
Freedom’s foreign to you, unattained;
From your childhood, you’ve been chained.
In your home, “silence is golden” prevails,
But we’re raising up Molotov cocktails.
In our hearts, blood is boiling, sizzling.
And you’re kin? – you blind ones, miserly?
There’s no fear in our eyes; it’s effortless,
We are dangerous even weaponless.[3]
According to literary critics, the poem might have been influenced by Russian translation of the "Britons never will be slaves!" or by Marina Tsvetayeva.[4]
The YouTube video of Dmitruk reading her poem went viral, quickly accumulating more than a million hits. A song based on the poem was created by musicians from Klaipeda.[5][6] It also quickly accumulated more than million hits. The poem was hotly debated in the press and received many thousand responses from Russian and Ukrainian audience[7] It became a target of many parodies, especially by Russian readers who considered the poem "Russophobic"[8] According to Yuri Loza, the "elder Russian brothers" in the poem appear as the reincarnation of Big Brother from Nineteen Eighty-Four[9] It is one of the two most popular poems which were written in Ukraine immediately following the Euromaidan.[4]
References
- ^ Another side of glory by segodnya.ua (Russian)
- ^ Записала Наталья Вагнер (2014-03-18). ""Вы огромные, мы - великие": Vgorode поговорил с киевлянкой-автором стиха об агрессии России - Киев". Kiev.vgorode.ua. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ A fragment of the poem, English translation by Andrey Kneller
- ^ a b Bulkina, Inna (1 April 2016). ""Стихия Майдана": русская и украинская "майданная поэзия"" (in Russian). Gefter.ru. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
- ^ "Литовцы записали песню на стихи украинки "Никогда мы не станем братьями!" (видео) - Политические новости Украины - "Духа нет у вас быть свободными – нам не стать с вами даже сводными", - поется в обращении к россиянам | СЕГОДНЯ". Segodnya.ua. 2014-04-05. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ Фото: Кадр відео. "Литовцы записали песню о России на стихи украинки". Korrespondent.net. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ ? Как к Вам обращаться?. ""Никогда мы не будем братьями" киевлянка написала стихотворение для россиян | Новини на". Gazeta.ua. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ "Русофобия "в исполнении" украинской поэтессы-националистки АНАСТАСИИ ДМИТРУК | Новости Ру - информационное бюро". Novosti-ru.ru. 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
- ^ Review of the poem by Yuri Loza
External links
- Her Youtube channel
- Her Facebook account
- Youtube video, with Dmitruk reading her poem
- YouTube Video of song on poem by Dmitruk
- Her poems on VK