Tachanka (Tачанка) Animation - From the film 'Songs of the Fire Years'

Tachanka is a Soviet revolutionary song from the late interwar period, composed by Konstantin Listov and written by Mikhail Ruderman in 1937. It describes an unnamed battle in the Russian Civil War and the Tachankas, or machine-gun carts, that were used by the Red Army at the time. Today, it features in the repertoire of the songs of the Red Army Choir.
This version of the song, along with the accompanying animation, comes from the Soviet film 'Song of the Fire Years' (Песни огненных лет).
The film includes many variations on themes of popular songs from the Russian Civil War. The songs are played against a background of hand-drawn animations, showing events from the struggle of the Bolsheviks and the Russian people against the White Guard movement.
Lyrics (Russian):
Ты лети с дороги, птица,
Зверь, с дороги уходи!
Видишь, облако клубится,
Кони мчатся впереди!
И с налета, с поворота,
По цепи врагов густой
Застрочит из пулемета
Пулеметчик молодой.
Припев:
Эх, тачанка-ростовчанка,
Наша гордость и краса,
Конармейская тачанка,
Все четыре колеса!
Эх, за Волгой и за Доном
Мчался степью золотой
Загорелый, запыленный
Пулеметчик молодой.
И неслась неудержимо
С гривой рыжего коня
Грива ветра, грива дыма,
Грива бури и огня.
Припев:
Эх, тачанка-киевлянка,
Наша гордость и краса,
Комсомольская тачанка,
Все четыре колеса!
По земле грохочут танки,
Самолеты петли вьют,
О буденновской тачанке
В небе летчики поют.
И врагу поныне снится
Дождь свинцовый и густой
Боевая колесница,
Пулеметчик молодой.
Припев:
Эх, тачанка-полтавчанка,
Наша гордость и краса,
Пулеметная тачанка,
Все четыре колеса!
Lyrics (English):
Fly off the road, bird,
Beast, get out of the way!
You see a [dust] cloud is swirling,
Horses are rushing ahead!
And with a charge, with a turn,
Over chains of enemies thick
Stutters from the machine-gun
The machine-gunner is young.
Chorus:
Oh, Tachanka from Rostov,
Our pride and beauty,
Red Cavalry Tachanka,
All four wheels!
Oh, over the Volga and over the Don [rivers]
The golden steppes rushed [past]
Bronzed, dusty
The machine-gunner is young.
And rushing unrestrained
With the horses' ginger manes
Manes of wind, manes of smoke
Manes of storm and fire.
Chorus:
Oh, Tachanka of Kiev,
Our pride and beauty,
Tachanka of the Komsomol*
All four wheels!
On the ground the tanks rumble,
Airplanes loop and weave
About the Tachanka of Budennovsk
In the sky, the pilots sing.
And the enemy still is dreaming
The rain is leaden and heavy
Battle chariot,
The machine-gunner is young.
Chorus:
Oh, Tachanka of Poltava,
Our pride and beauty,
Machine-Gun [bearing] Tachanka
All four wheels!

[@thelordtachanka6434]

Ah Yes The Good Ol' Days When It Was Simple

[@WingMaster562]

Whelp

[@ShizukuSeiji]

And a tchanka was the height of technological warfare!

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

I dunno if I'd call a 3 way civil war with foreign involvement simple

[@saccorhytus]

i really doubt life was simple in the 1930s

[@SenkaBandit]

That was like, one of the most eventful periods in the last 100 years for Russia

[@terrordrift32]

LMG! MOUNTED, AND LOADED!!

[@materializedmagnetichampster]

Who else is listening to this while doing homework

[@cradoccrandall6202]

ofcourse comrade

[@muhamadferdikaramadhan592]

Me, you was prophecy me. Espesially, i working history

[@ShizukuSeiji]

I'm listening to this while building some model tchankas for my wargames army :)

[@kurtcommunistform2ndphase81]

That one music when you're cramming:

[@SuperKlondike64]

Finally, an epic Russian song that's as epic as the topic it's about.

[@TheGreatBig]

Russians really be dancing to a lightly-toned, upbeat song about a starving peasant boy eating his own mother.

[@thedano-spaniard2204]

Girls: omg I love horse riding horses are so cute
Boys:

[@muhamadferdikaramadhan592]

Its true

[@FernandoSilva-bf7dv]

True

[@Ari-ne2yb]

true. I wanna do a proletarian revolution on my chariot as well

[@disturbedtommysoldier3648]

Lovely video as always, HR!

[@marcleslac2413]

Tachanka for r6 players can mean only one thing. LORD TACHANKA. LMG MOUNTED AND LOADED!

[@farhanyazied3470]

I never thought that the lord has his own animation video

[@thomasvendetti3742]

Very fine posting! It would seem that it embodies the Soviet art of militaristic propaganda.

[@weschalo1641]

i would love to see this animation remade with modern animation

[@tomcharnley4217]

I hope the animators were given an extra half slice of stale bread for this animation.

[@walterbell7193]

Tim Chaney ☃️🐻💀

[@jamaicanball6285]

@@walterbell7193 Walter Bell

[@walterbell7193]

@@jamaicanball6285 yes me boi¿

[@ShizukuSeiji]

Looks like they were well oiled on Vodka. The entire thing is pretty trippy.

[@user-cw7mh5cw6z]

68**88*88888888**8

[@user-ib9sd3mq9f]

наша история))))

[@emiliovelasquez7076]

Pensar que llegue aqui buscando los temas musicales de tetris

[@chspg_alvis]

Praise the Lord Tachanka

[@mikazukia04]

In Only 2 Times Listening to this in a game , it became one of my most loved songs ... meaningful lyrics + the spirit + the melody .
Love to Russia my ally . from iran😄😎💯

[@Vena.n]

0:33 it starts

[@taran7728]

it starts at 0:00

[@philippierre0678]

Why does this look like the Mulan movie?

[@ShizukuSeiji]

Because Mulan's styie was based on old animations of this kind, though more Asiatic than this.

[@liloakadog2481]

I like this

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

I don't agree with communism, but there's something universally badass about creating a devastating weapon with only what you have, a tank before tanks.

[@SenkaBandit]

I think the anarchists invented the tactic, not the communists

[@axtondragunov1784]

​@SenkaBandit Tachankas were created by Nestor Makhno the leader of the Ukranian Anarchist Black Army

[@SenkaBandit]

@@axtondragunov1784 ya

[@travisfriedland9346]

I can remember first hearing this song When I was a boy in 1966 I think it might have been originally written during the War of 1812 does anybody know for sure many thanks in advance to anyone who can help

[@sneedsfeedandseed2]

likely not as the first machine gun showed up around the 1880's

[@rockz9783]

It was written in the 1930s

[@Gdanbo72]

So the tachanka, made by a Ukrainian Anarchist Nestro Makhno in the 1900's, was first used in 1917 during ww1 and the russian civil war, and the song was probably made in the 1920's and so there is no way for the song to be written in the british-american war of 1812

[@walrusassociation9317]

How TF does thus rhyme in English?

[@papasha1323]

Simple it’s not in English. And wasn’t meant for English.

[@elvarestep3323]

@@papasha1323 That's what she's asking, why does it rhyme in English anyway? I mean sure, there are holes, but for the most part there's a consistent rhyme scheme even in English throughout the whole thing. Not only that, but the rhyme scheme in Russian is different from the one in English, the Russian one seems to usually be AABB, whereas the one in English seems to be ABAB or even ABBA.

[@ShizukuSeiji]

@@elvarestep3323 Its a translation, the translator was skilled. Translators and bi-lingual people are clever like that.

[@adankmeme651]

Soviet Disney is weird

[@taran7728]

*better

[@adankmeme651]

@@taran7728 ok

[@Brother_O4TS]

​@@adankmeme651
Compared to new Disney, this is a masterpiece

[@Stevie-J]

Tachanka, grandfather of the toyota technical

[@user-ob3nn4mk6m]

Не смотрел до конца. А, где банка варенья? Для предателя?. Надо ему сразу давать.

[@KhedivateOfEgyptYT]

Chariot but its communist:

[@Armemers]

aaaaaa

[@authorofcreation1721]

ENS REALE -IAMGOD