In 10 years some kid with depression is gonna put this in his doomer playlist

No bullshit, but the guy in the middle of a war, without filters, without auto tune, psychologically shaken, chest tight, still manages to sing/play better than many famous people out there.

Evolution of this song from afghanistan to chechnya to ukraine really proves that history repeats and rhymes

Son: Don't tell mom im in Bakhmut Father: Don't tell mom im in Chechnya Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Afghanistan Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Berlin Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Petrograd Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Manchuria Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Sofia Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Crimea Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Turkestan Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom im in Paris Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don't tell mom Warsaw Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Odessa Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Prussia Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Finland Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Iran Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Sweden Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Serbia Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Riga Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Smolensk Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Livonia Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Lithuania Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Kazan Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Muscovy 2 Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Muscovy Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Kulikovo Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Tver 3 Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Tver 2 Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Tver Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Wesenberg Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Kiev Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great--Great--Great--Great-Great-Great-Great-Great--Great-Great-Great--Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Novgorod Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Cumania Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great--Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Lemnos Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Constantinople 2 Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Khazaria Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Pechennegia Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great--Great--Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in Constantinople Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great--Great--Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great--Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandfather: Don’t tell mom I’m in other cavemans cave

"Soldiers aren't numbers. They are husbands, fathers, sons and brothers"

Certified historical document.

Surrounded by ruins caused by terrifying war actions, he finds a way to express his feelings by art. It gives a vibe that I cannot explain...

Grandfather:Afghanistan Father: Chechnya Son:Ukraine

Coming from a veteran, keep in mind, you may not agree with the politics of a conflict, but the people that are fighting it on the ground are largely just normal folk, brothers, fathers, cousins, boyfriends, husbands...

“We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.” -John Hart. Hope all these men get to go home soon

this has to be unironically the 40th time I watch this video

Ukrainian old copral : "Hey sniper, what are the Russians doing?" Sniper: “Some Russian dude is singing an Afghan song, remade as Bakhmut.” Old copral: “don’t touch him, this is my song, I was there too!!!

This just seems like a talented man in the wrong place at the wrong time.

We live in strange times. Every lad that has access to internet can watch people dying, crying and singing on the battlefields while sitting in chair with a beer.

It’s nice to see videos like this. It’s a good reminder that soldiers are humans, no matter what side they fight for. Most of these guys are in their late teens, early twenties. They have families, friends, and lives. No matter who you believe is right or wrong, just remember; we have the privilege of sitting back and watching this war unfold. Others are not as lucky, and so be thankful it’s not your son, or brother, father, husband or boyfriend out there. Hope he makes it home safe, and we all should hope this war will end soon.

We saw how enthusiastic he was, but at the end, he almost cried... I hope he can meet his mother at the end of the war

Please god let me see this man being interviewed in a documentary in 10 years

The empty landscape, the gray atmosphere, the war-thorn buildings, the cold, the very distant gunfire, the loneliness... hauntingly beautiful and sad

Right now, in an alternate universe not too far from ours, this man is singing at a concert in this very city while his mother proudly watches.

No filter, coloured video, the ominous scenery, artillery, raw footage, i do wish i could speak with the man behind the guitar one day if he is still here, this is recorded history

What really hits hard is the fact that you dont know if this dude is still alive or not. Its crazy to think about that he might be dead and we still watch him playing this wonderful song on youtube…

It’s sad that a lot of young men, Russians and Ukrainians, are dying for a stupid war

they say a war can be summed up in a picture. This man summed up a war in a song. I hope he gets home safe and sound and keeps singing and playing.

I feel like it’s (unintentionally) poetic of how bland everything is besides the guitar he’s holding. Everything is lost of color and destroyed, his guitar is the only bright, vibrant object in this world

The fact this video is not color edited and the guitar is the only colorful thing in this scenario gives vibes from the Girl in the red jacket in Shindlers List - but this time its real wtf

It’s weird to think decades later people could look back on this as a relic of a bygone era

I don't cry easily... but this one really made me burst.

Russians have such a beautiful language

My God, if I was his mother and I heard him singing this. It'd be heartbreaking hearing your son sing it, even if you can't see him you'd still know it's your baby boy. No one tell her.

This video will go down in history as a war documentary.

Я вспомнила, когда в Москве прошли серии террактов со взрывами домом, то когда я входила в метро, в автобус и смотрела на людей, то думала, как вы все мне дороги! И тут при просмотре этого видео, такое же чувство охватывает. Все эти солдаты свои, родные и любимые. Да благословит вас Господь!

I’m an American citizen. This breaks my heart

In about 15-20 years i can see this in a history classroom

I never considered a guitar a colorful object, until I saw this😔

The voice crack at 1:40 really shows how much emotion these words held for him

i am a Moroccan 21 year old man who studies in china ! goes to show that I have absolutely no ties to this war... but this video gave me goosebumps and put tears in my eyes. A piece of art!

Said how fathers sang this song in Chechnya 20 years ago and now their sons, sing it again in Ukraine.

when my father returned in 1947, with only one leg, injured in 1945 in Adolfs big fight, I was a little child and knew nothing about war. During my life I learned: war never ends ! In my brain and in the stories of my father was something that overcomes: that he was saved once on the battlefield by Russian soldiers, once by one Russian farmer, once by the Medical Service . Why? Those 4 years during all fights he learned the Russian language, was interested in Russian Historie , visites all churches and buildings and tought his 5 children, to accept every nation .... it is the best I learned in my life. Peace to all people.Peace to this Russian soldier.

I wish both Maxim and the singing soldier is doing fine.

I don't care what side youre on, this shit is both beautiful and utterly depressing as fuck

In a war, country gives cannons, rich people give Horses, while fathers give their sons, after war, country is taking cannons, rich people take horses, while fathers are trying to find their sons graves.

There's something so surreal about this video. The soldier sitting alone in a bombed-out hellscape, the way everything is gray except his ukelele, the gunshots and shelling in the background, and yet he sits up there and sings...

That ws very touching!! Respect to this soldier i hope he is still alive!!

the fact that the guitar is the brightest thing in the entire video speaks for itself

if he isn't alive anymore, this here could be the last reminder that he existed, maybe after 100 years

I cant believe how beautiful his voice is and that he actually sings in the middle of warfare

Not even in movies you find something like that 😔

please god let him live a full and happy life he seems like a very good person and he deserves better than the terrors of war

0:53 in case you didnt know “tourist” here refers to a Wagner fighter because Wagners are called like that since theyve travelled to many exotic locations such as Syria, Libya, Mali, CAR etc

The true cost of the war revealed. A tragedy for all involved, Russians, Ukrainians and those in between.

An oddly enjoyable song for something so unenjoyable, i hope this man is still out there and sees his family again

those dam russians and their amazing fuckin songs

you can actually hear sound of artillery in the background

The last chorus with the explosion and the round of artillery shells sounding like applauses are really haunting.

2050: Dont tell Mom I'm in New York

this is probably one of the realest videos i have seen from the war, a man singing and playing music on a balcony while you hear the fait sounds of gun fire and mortar shelling (idk if it's a mortar). we all probably think of war as this cool concept, especially after tiktok edits started being made of war, but this, shows how brutal it is, and how dark everything is in reality, with only the guitar having any sort of color what so ever, was is hell.

"one death is a tragedy, one million deaths is a statistic."

This is going to be an iconic historical video in a few decades

What’s disturbing about this video is that this soldier might not be among us anymore.

This was so sad, yet beatiful at the same time. It shows the humanity in a dehumanized enemy, even though theyre just victims of their inhumane regime. God, save our children from this fate.

This is a sniper, you can see his weapon here: 00:58 that is an SV-98. Imagine the courage he had to just sing on a balcony like that in plain sight.

Grandfather: just don't tell mom that I am in Afghan Father: just don't tell mom that I am in Checnya Son:

when yo udont know what you are fighting for or too scared to fight back against corruption. what else is a doomed man to do?

grim that the guitar is the only colorful object in the entire shot

Afghanistan, Chechenya and now the Russo Ukrainian war. I'm 100% sure when Russia and America are fighting over Mars, Russian soldiers will make another rendition of this song again.

Great song. Thank you. Bakhmut, like Verdun or Stalingrad will remain a symbol of horror. May all that perished there rest in peace.

Tragic and heartbreakingly beautiful at the same time! Thank you for sharing this showcase of our dystopian time.

give russian dude a guitar and he can make the best songs out of the most depressing situations

Хотелось бы увидеть хотя-бы через 2-3 года как тот-же солдат сидит на этом-же балконе и поет эту-же песню, но вокруг все отстроено, мирное небо, ездят машины, жизнь цветет. Только так мы увидим, что все войны рано или поздно заканчиваются и наступает мирная жизнь.

Foolish people tend to forget that most soldiers dont want to die in war

I had to paused the song halfway through to collect myself because it was just such a sad scene

Grandfather > Just don't tell mom that i'm going to Afghanistan. Father > Just don't tell mom that i'm going to Chechnya. Son > Just don't tell mom that i'm going to Bakhmut. No one deserves to die like this.

It is sad to see young men play the songs of their fathers who fought in the same hellish conditions. Stay safe, boys, and pray for peace. 🇷🇺🇺🇲 Love from a Chuvash American.

As an aspiring American soldier, I hope I never have to go up againts my Russian friends, our rivalry has been going on for far too long, its time to recognize each other as humans and settle things like real men.

this song legit inspires me to leanr russian

this is basically a historical document now. incredible.

I really don't care what side you're on, this goes hard.

I was a South Korean Air Force soldier until a few months ago. Now, fortunately, I am back in society intact, but I still have nightmares about the military. The conscription has more than just the deprivation of freedom. Under the guise of ”for motherland(조국을 위하여),“ many people have to perform unwanted missions and are sometimes even pushed to death. Not only I, but in reality, a large number of soldiers have been on the verge of dying or have already lost their lives. Other people who have nothing to do with the military do not even know who died for what. Although I have not been pushed to the same battlefield as that Russian soldier, I completely understand at least some of the pain he is going through. I hope this hellish war ends soon. May there be peace for all the souls whose freedom and lives have been taken away🙏🏻

Its not everyday that you see a video on youtube that will almost certainly be historical.

It's one of the most beautiful live solo musical performances I've ever seen. It's incredible that he did it in such a stressful and dire area. There are always flowers under the debris. Everyone should have the right to return to their own home.

Slavs killing slavs, it shouldnt be like that. Stay strong, stay alive. Do not let politicians ruin your life. I wish you can go back home safe. 🇵🇱 Greetings, remember whatever our politicians say it is not every people opinion.

Вернись домой живым дорогой!!!

Родной наш Воин, отец, сын, брат.Храни тебя Господь. Мы ждём тебя живым. ❤🙏🇷🇺

0:54 That send some real...Swallowing dust vibes. (For people who don't know: Black Tulip: Nickname given to the Antonov An-12 planes during Soviet-Afghan war , they received these nicknames because they were often used to transport bodies, so if a comrade returned home in a "black tulip" he is probably dead.)

heartbreaking that this song has to keep coming back.. doesn't matter who's right and who's wrong, I wish I could see a world from which war was eradicated

He is endowed with a beautiful voice.

Much love and respect from 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽 🇲🇽

I wish this man survives the war and then becomes famous as a musician so that a book can be written about his story 🙏🙏🙏

War is an absolutely terrible thing. May this man still be alive, reunited with his brother and mom. Rest in peace to the man's fallen brothers and friends themselves.

Eurovision level singing. i hope he wasnt lost in the war

We're witnessing history live here gentlemen

I feel like a lot of people care more about the actions of governments and movement of land rather than the suffering of young men, I really don’t want to feel a bullet piercing into my body or exploding into a bunch of pieces because my government cared more about what’s outside their control rather than inside

10 years later Just don't tell mom that I'm going to Vashington DC

His voice is relaxing

This hits hard. You often don't really think about how war is actually like, espacially when playing war videogames, but then, you might stumble upon a video like this, that makes you realise it.

Beautiful voice in a morbid setting. God bless the Slavic peoples, may the war end soon.

Győnyörü dal super előadásban! Vigyázz magadra ❤❤! Köszönjük!❤❤

No matter how much time flies, history will always repeat itself

Politicians and world leaders, pound, their chest with pride, while young man die and mothers cry.

The fact that the original song traces back to the times of the Soviet-Afghan War is something that’s strange to say, how each generation portrays and sings their own experience on war.