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[it-isbel]

[post-punk-author-anthony-day]

A Playlist built around #Russianpostpunk and #sovietwave

[queensboro]

trying to plan out my show for radio tonight and it’s basically just like. an hour of any music from soviet republics. they told me i could do whatever i want generally. well don’t tell me that. because what if i play an hour of songs from detski multfilmi . you won’t be laughing once you hear krokodil gena’s devastating ditties

[irithnova]

Tsoi Coin - Uncased and Cased

[tortue-blanche]

Их музыку слушали музыканты "Горшок" и "Ягода" (братья Горшенёвы).

Недавно мы слушали на виниле альбом "Как в старой сказке" панк-рок группы "Король и шут". Безусловно, это культовая группа для нашей страны. И они впитали очень многое в себя, помимо Misfits, The Exploited, Ramones, Sex Pistols и многое другое.

Свое влияние на них оказала электронная музыка и new wave. Об этом сам говорил Михаил "Горшок" Горшенев (1973 - 2013 - ∞) в некоторых интервью. Я думаю, его комментарии и суждения относительно Depeche Mode и их вклада в музыку весьма значимы!

Так, в своем интервью на радиостанции "Комсомольская правда" в 2012 году Михаил рассказывал о группах, которые оказали на него влияние. Есть отдельный фрагмент о Depeche Mode в "Вконтакте" или полную версию беседы можно найти на youtube.

Если кому-то интересно, я выписала с некоторыми стилистическими поправками высказывания Михаила Горшенева и попросила моих друзей перевести их на английский язык. Может быть есть недочеты, но суть ясна:

An excerpt from an interview with Mikhail "Gorshok" ("Pot" in English) Gorshenev, musician, one of the founders of the Soviet and Russian punk rock band "Korol i Shut". In this interview, Mikhail talked about music and his favorite musical bands of different genres. Among them, he mentioned Depeche Mode, the influence of this music on industrial rock. Pot called them real creators in music, and rightly so.

Pot: Ah, shall we talk about electronic? [music]. Essentially, it's Kraftwerk, Daft [Daft Punk]. A better known band in this regard is Depeche Mode.

Host: But for some reason, many rock and roll bands shied away from this sound. A strange sound when there are a lot of synthesizers.

Pot: Yes, they didn't understand. Depeche, when they started doing this, they may not have looked like rockers and maybe approached this business not in a rocker way.

Host: But why? They were in leather...

Pot: In the beginning they looked like a boy band, no one yet understood that they were real creators in this business. No...but I got it right away! And how they tried with the sound, they almost cut pieces of paper, made a unique beat. We can say that they are practically the creators of industrial rock, in theory. By the way, again...here's Depeche Mode. One can say that industrial rock originated from electronic music. Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, and in the future it turns into just metal. For example, Ministry is industrial rock. We know industrial rock not by Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk. We know it by, for example, Rammstein.

Host: Yes, music is developing. On "Komsomolskaya Pravda" we listen to Depeche Mode. (Following this, the host plays an excerpt the song "Just can't get enough"). ...Mikhail, we talked about Sex Pistols, Madness, Depeche Mode. I know you know a lot of heavier bands.

Оригинал на русском с некоторыми стилистическими правками:

Горшок: А, мы поговорим про электронную? [музыку]. Неотъемлемо, это Kraftwerk, Daft [Daft Punk]. Более известная группа в этом плане - это Depeche Mode.

Ведущий: Но почему-то многие рок-н-рольные группу чурались этого звука. Странного звука, когда очень много синтезаторов.

Горшок: Да, не понимали. Depeche когда начали этим заниматься, они, может не совсем выглядели как рокеры и, может, не как рокеры подошли к этому делу.

Ведущий: А чего? Они же были в коже...

Горшок: В начале они были похожи на мальчиковскую группа, никто еще не понимал, что они - реальные творцы в этом деле. Не...но я-то сразу врубился! И как они заморачивались со звуком, чуть ли не режут бумажки, почему-то бьют. Можно сказать, что они практически родоначальник индустриального рока по идее-то. Кстати, опять же...вот Depeche Mode. Практически индустриальный рок произошел от электронной музыки. Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, а в дальнейшем это превращается уже в просто металл. Например, Ministry, это индустриальный рок. Мы знаем индустриальный рок не как и Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk. Мы знаем его, как наверное, Rammstein.

Ведущий: Да, музыка развивается. На "Комсомольской правде" слушаем Depeche Mode. (Далее проигрыш из песни Just can't get enough). ... Михаил, мы поговорили о Sex Pistols, Madness, Depeche Mode. Я знаю, что у Вас есть большой пласт групп потяжелее.

Кстати, одной из любимых композиций он называл песню Strangelove. Хочу сразу предупредить, что в интернете ходит кавер-версия этой песни в исполнении Михаила Горшенева, но это создано при помощи искусственного интеллекта (!), это не его настоящий голос. В целом, мелодизм, свое отличительное звучание и лирика Depeche Mode оказали определенное влияние на музыкальное творчество группы Король и шут. Вечная память тебе, Михаил! Спасибо тебе, Андрею "Князь" Князеву и всей вашей команде за нашу музыку! К ней можно по-разному относиться, но вы были очень искренне в отношении музыки.

Более того, группу Depeche Mode любит брат Михаила, Алексей "Ягода" Горшенев, что также отразилось на песнях его группы "Кукрыниксы". Ягода со своей группой подготовили кавер-версию World in my eyes. Конечно, этот трек не надо сравнивать с оригиналом. В этой версии слышен ярко русский акцент, да и сам ритм песни более быстрый. Но нас интересует то, что для Алексея Горшенева группа Depeche Mode важна и ценна, и он захотел сделать свой вариант. Песни "Кукрыниксов" также узнаваемы и любимы в нашей стране, у них также есть свой лиризм и мелодичность. Кстати, недавно Алексей Горшенев дал в июле потрясающий концерт в память о своем брате Михаиле. Есть отличные любительские записи (часть 1, часть 2).

Самое важное - это наша общность интересов и то влияние, которое оказывает Depeche Mode. Их творчество признают очень разные люди в музыкальных направлениях.

Ну и напоследок фрагмент начала песни "Гимн шута" группы Король и шут. Хой!

"Искренне прошу - смейтесь надо мной

Если это вам поможет!

Да, я с виду шут, но в душе король

И никто, как я не может!"

"Искренне прошу - смейтесь надо мной

Если это вам поможет!

Да, я с виду шут, но в душе король

И никто, как я не может!" (с).

[marysoulpainter]

Yayyy Mary, I've got some questions for Rodya (does he like to be called like that though?). Feel free to answer them one at a time or all together! Sooo…

What does he listen to with his LemonPod?

Any references for his voice?

What's his own opinion concerning his mental magic? Does he feel like it's unfair towards others? Or does he feel like it can help him make better connection with others? Or maybe he has no idea about his talent?

His favorite scent?

…aaand I just wanna know more about his passion for birds and bird whistles. Birds are fun!

P. S. Love his outfit. Is it traditional for his church, or does he prefer to go a bit... stylish?

Yippie, yummy questions! You're the best, Gray! 💕 (he prefers Rodion, but he doesn't mind at all when his friends call him Rodya :>)

The answers got reaaaaally long, so look under the cut!

He really likes indie rock, although I imagine he listens pretty much to everything (and also i guess because indie rock can be any rock, folk, punk or alternative?).

Uhh, mostly Russian ones, didn't come up with English ones yet... but if you wanna hear them (and have VK), it's "образец голоса" by Михаил Данилюк, Сергей Смирнов and Александр Воеводин! Voevodin is actually the main reference for his voice, you can also hear him in a soviet animated short called "Геракл у Адмета" (he voices Admetus). The other ones work just as well! p.s. when i pick his english voice i'll probably reblog the reference with it...

Well, the magic in ZBDN comes to a person when they hit puberty, and even then it's not guaranteed (plus, Rodion's a half-elf). He wasn't dealing with much bullying at that time, but he still probably felt alienated and had little friends. He felt pretty conflicted with it, since people began gravitating towards him more, and he felt like it wasn't really fair and it wasn't him that attracted people... but he eventually accepted and dealt with it. It works like a passive aura, so he can't really control it, and it's not very strong at all. It just makes him more approachable, I guess, like ✨magic charisma✨. Plus, it helps his sermons get across better!

Hmmm... I feel like it would be lavender. Or pine. He uses different scents depending on his mood and purpose of his meditation session :>

Hehe, I think he just likes nature in general, birds included. Also bird whistles sometimes aren't even birds (я не знаю, какой точный аналог свистулек есть в неславянских культурах...). Whistles and vessel flutes are fun! They're easy to pick up and play, and they look very nice, I think he knows some simple melodies even.

It is traditional for his church! Calm blues and a black-and-white pendant, symbolising harmony in the soul and balance of End and Beginning. One cannot exist without another, and you will gain inner peace and be content with your life only if you seek balance. No true perfect balance exists, of course, but it's good to strive for harmony in yourself! And it's doesn't mean shutting your emotions and getting rid of earthly desire, quite the contrary. Just- just seek mental and emotional stability, ok? :D

[cyberbenb]

Why Russian music is still popular in Ukraine; Explosives reported at nuke plant

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Serhii Fomenko’s journey from Ukrainian folk rock singer to a member of Ukraine’s Territorial Defense Force and documentarian is not, as one might expect, a simple story. 

But in many ways, his career illustrates what Russia did to Ukraine’s cultural legacy and the steps that Ukrainian artists, writers and musicians are taking to reclaim it, even at great cost. 

We spoke to Serhii a couple of days after one of Ukraine's most promising young writers, Victoria Amelina, succumbed to injuries she suffered on June 27 when the Russians slammed a missile into a popular restaurant in Kramatorsk, killing at least 12 more and injuring 60.  

“In the last century, the Russians decided to carry out a large-scale genocide against Ukrainians,” Fomenko said. “They killed the intellectual and artistic elite… After one hundred years, they behave in the same way.” 

Fomenko got his start busking on the streets of Kyiv shortly before the fall of the Soviet Union. Like most musicians, he sang in Russian back then, given the dominance of the USSR, but a few Ukrainian folk songs were tolerated. Soon he formed his band The Day Dies Young, a psychedelic punk band with artistic influences ranging from The Doors to The Cure. 

After Ukraine shook off its Soviet shackles and gained its independence in 1991, Fomenko still sang mostly in Russian. The Day Dies Young even visited Moscow and St. Petersburg. He saw many of colleagues sign with Russian music labels and cash in. Their Soviet overlords were gone, replaced by Russian capitalists with cash to splash around. 

“The whole media space, the channels, the TV, everything was silently occupied by the Russian side, by the Russian businessmen,” he said.

In 1998, Fomenko, too, was offered a record deal by a Russian music label, he said – but only if he would sing exclusively in Russian. He refused, and, by then a solo artist, he switched to singing exclusively in Ukrainian. 

He continued his singing career, earning a degree of fame in Ukraine. Ross, our Ukrainian colleague, was excited to do this interview because he remembered listening to Fomenko as a kid. Ross said his father was an even bigger fan. Fomenko smiled genially at this, used to the recognition, although he doesn’t encourage it.

But like many things in Ukraine, 2014 changed everything. Around that time, Fomenko was one of the protestors who opposed President Yanukovych drawing Ukraine closer to Russia and not Europe.

Fomenko performing in Maidan in November 2013, at the start of the protests. (MandryMusicUA) 

”I was on the Maidan,” he said. “I knew a few people who are now in the Heavenly Hundred,” referring to the some 100 civilians killed by government security forces. And then came the Russian annexation of Crimea and occupation of the eastern parts of the country. Fomenko knew he needed to do something else. 

“After Maidan,” he said. “My will to do music disappeared.”  

He started curating a traveling exhibition called Maidan. Ukraine. Road to Freedom, which showed in the U.S Congress and around the world.

He said he wrote a couple of songs about the war in the east and a children’s musical about Ukraine’s version of Santa Claus. I got the impression that he felt creatively fallow in these years.

And then, everything changed again. 

On Feb. 26, 2022, two days after the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he enlisted in Ukraine’s 206th Territorial Defense Force battalion, which helped evacuate people from Irpin, Bucha, and surrounding towns. His was one of the first units into Bucha, where Russians had tortured and massacred civilians. “It was brutal,” was all he said. 

He says he couldn’t understand why the Russians would do this. What do they have to gain?

“They were welcomed here,” he said. “There were artists who were making huge money in Ukraine. Businessmen were making a lot of money. … There was simply no reason for this to start, ever.”

He spent just three months in the Territorial Defense Forces  — he’s 51 with a wife and two young children — and after leaving the military, he has started new creative ventures. He is producing two documentaries about Mariupol, the strategic town in Donetsk currently occupied by Russia. It was under siege for three months before the Ukrainian fighters holed up in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works factory surrendered. Ukrainian officials estimate some 25,000 civilians were killed in the siege. 

This first documentary is called “People of Steel,” and will tell the stories of the defenders of Mariupol and their families. The second is called “The Mariupol Diary '' about 8-year-old Yegor Kravtsov and his family. Their house was bombed, trapping them until they were able to escape to Zaporizhzhia. Yegor kept a diary throughout the ordeal. Fomenko calls it a “powerful artifact and document of the occupation, genocide, and war crimes of the Russian army in the occupied Mariupol.

Despite all that — nine years of war and the horrors of the full-fledged invasion — Russian-language music is still commonly found on Ukrainian pop charts. Out of the 100 songs on that list, 38 songs are in Russian and of those, 24 are by Russian artists. The rest of the 38 are by Belarusian and Ukrainian artists.

“We are still a post-colonial society and I believe that a lot of people still have a lot of illusions regarding the Russians and the presence of Russians and their music,” he said. “A lot of people [Ukrainians] simply never discovered Ukrainian culture for themselves. … Some people simply missed it because they were, for example, watching Russian TV. It was only Russian there, you know, the Russian position, the Russian point of view. And so a lot of people, they simply missed whole layers of Ukrainian cultural development.”

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Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. 

There is a palpable sense of anxiety in the air as uncertainty surrounds the immediate fate of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). 

In a national address late last night, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, "On the roof of several power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Russian military placed objects similar to explosives." 

Ukrainian emergency workers wearing radiation protection suits train in Zaporizhzhia to prepare for a possible disaster at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. (Photo by Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

However, Mariana Budzherin, a senior research associate at the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, said these alleged explosive devices "will not lead to any actual radiological release of radionuclides into the atmosphere.” 

“The occupiers can seriously damage the structure itself,” she said. “But in order to cause the actual …radiological emission of radionuclides, our invaders need to try very, very hard. In fact, it is not that easy to do.”

Nonetheless, Ukrainian telegram channels have been posting frequently about the situation at the ZNPP. The Ukrainian government has been taking the threat seriously, with disaster response drills in Zaporizhzhia and the distribution of potassium iodide tablets. 

A Ukrainian translation of the recommended CDC guidelines for radiation contamination posted by civilian channels.

Based on casual conversations around town, there is a sense of doom about all this. Some Ukrainians we spoke with have interpreted the lack of an international response to the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on June 6 as giving Russia the confidence to disable the ZNPP and cause a new ecological calamity. 

"Thanks for another day without nuclear disaster," a Ukrainian meme reads.

Roughly 100 employees of Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom have reportedly left Enerhodar, the town closest to the power plant, as of July 2. The mayor of Enerhoda, said that there are still around 6,000 Ukrainian employees of the plant that have been forbidden from leaving by the occupying Russian authorities.  

One question that hangs over all this is ‘Why?’ Today, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar posted on her official Telegram channel that “Terrorist acts and their direct perpetration are for the Russian Federation a tool for achieving military goals.” 

She called for Ukrainians to remain calm and only trust official sources of information.

Amid this anxious waiting, the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues to make small inroads in the east. The ISW's latest report says the Ukrainian forces are taking a deliberate pace to conserve their manpower while “gradually wearing down Russian manpower and equipment." 

This is in contrast to the lightning Kharkiv counteroffensive in September when Ukraine recaptured thousands of kilometers of its territory from Russian occupying forces.

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Greetings everyone. Chris here. This will be one of my last dispatches and musings for The Counteroffensive. Tim is returning soon. I envy that he gets to come back and cover this. 

As a reporter and “a veteran war correspondent” — a sobriquet I never expected to have — Ukraine has been clarifying. Like any reporter, I want to cover big stories with big stakes. There are few stories that can approach the stakes of Ukraine’s struggle against Russia. I firmly believe that if Ukraine falls, it will embolden autocrats around the world and endanger the faith that citizens of the free world have in democracy. 

I am not young—I remember well Ronald Reagan and his call to “tear down this wall!” But I was too green to cover the giddy Velvet Revolution or the Balkan bloodbath. I knew they were important, however. Instead, my generation of journalists got the Iraq War. Who was right and who wasn’t were fuzzy judgment calls, at best. We never had a moral clarion call to (figurative) arms. Saddam was bad, yes, but was the U.S. justified in its actions? No. It was a tough line to walk. 

Chris reporting in Kirkuk on April 13, 2003.

But Ukraine? There’s something here that calls to me, to a whole cast of characters who see a clear moral choice. Are we romanticizing it? More than a little, I’m sure. I’m equally sure that as this war drags on, the world will learn of more atrocities under the Law of Armed Conflict—from both sides. Endemic corruption within the Ukrainian government will no doubt come to light. People will be disappointed. 

But the imperfections of the Ukrainians doesn’t mean they don’t deserve full-throated support against Russia. What is happening here is a bracingly crystal-clear moral struggle, a rarity in today’s social-media-soaked world and almost non-existent in the both-sides-ism of today’s American journalism industry. Like I said, I do believe failure to defeat Russian imperial designs will have global reverberations, whether here, in Europe, China or Washington.

Chris at the Syrian-Iraqi Kurdistan border in July 2002.

Perhaps it’s arrogance that one reporter or a small team can tell enough good stories (with dog pics), illuminate the horrors of modern warfare and shake enough people by their coat lapels, that they will put war correspondents out of a job. Perhaps it’s simply enough to bear witness. 

Either way, it’s been an honor to report for you. It’s been an honor to tell the stories of Monro, Tasha, Serhii, and many others that will be published in the coming days. I hope to be back, but if not, keep supporting Tim and other journalists covering this war so they can keep informing you. 

Tim and team are fortunate to be at the center of it all, and you, dear readers, are equally lucky to have Tim and team on the beat.

Today’s cat o’ conflict is Bubula, courtesy of Klara Lisinski, a resident of Kyiv.

Stay safe out there. 

Best, Chris

[it-isbel]

viktor click

[inapat16]

Underground soviet rock and punk : Serebrennikov's Leto (Part 2/4)

To start this journey around Serebrennikov work and his dedication in this new wave of the dissident movement let’s look into his movie Leto. 

Leto, which means summer in Russian, is a movie that came out in December of 2018 which stars Roman Bilyk, Irini Starshenbaum and Yoo Teo. It’s a beautiful movie in black and white that describes the situation in the Soviet Union during the late 80s. During this period, the country was going through the perestroika, which is a time when people could only listen to Occident music, and especially rock and punk music, underground. Those types of music, such as Lou Reed and David Bowie were exchanged in those underground networks. Some major groups emerged during this time. Leto describes the foundation of one of the most famous Russian rock groups, Kino with Viktor Tsoï. The movie is about this group but also the way they change the rock’n’roll industry in the Soviet Union. To do so, the whole movie is in black and white, there’s even the use of fake archive footage, and metaphoric characters as the punk or the septical, to show the story of rock. Kirill Serebrennikov wanted to do a film that has an echo of the situation in Russia in 2018: 

“Leto is a rock’n’roll story, during a hostile climate for rock music and occidental influences. Our story is based on the necessary faith to pass through this context and the recklessness of our heroes for the restrictions”. 

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[mistysblueboxstuff]

there's a great comment on one of the reaction videos and I'll just paste it here, it explains this song perfectly

"As a Croat who understands lyrics, I would also like to provide an additional interpretation of the first two verses. So the first verse goes "Mama kupila traktora", and it actually doesn't literally decode to Lukashenko buying a tractor to Putin, but to Russia "buying"/bribing Belarus and establishing control over Belarus. That's because "kupila" translates to "she bought". Also, беларуc (=Belarus) is the best selling model of tractor in Belarus, and this makes the parody more more apparent. This interpretation is important for understanding the second verse "Armageddon nona", which is harder to understand. "Nona" in Croatian means grandmother. So if "mama" = Russia, then "nona" = "Soviet Union". This makes more sense if you consider that Russia "bought" Belarus, and has now transformed itself into new Soviet Union who wants to be an empire (armageddon nona).

Finally the nonsensical spelling of alphabet letters in the middle of the song actually represents unification of (Soviet) states into new Soviet Union, which is now represented with a new Soviet Union, which is now represented with a new symbol "ŠČ". Also "ŠČ" is parody of letter "Z" which you can now see on Russian tanks deployed in Ukraine. Despite being punk rockers, Let 3 are known in Croatia and ex-Yugoslav states for their unique punk rock style and deep symbolism. Their main member Mrle also writes texts for theatre plays, which is also worth pointing out. So the whole performance must be taken into account while interpreting it, because this isn't a song you can listen to on radio, but a mini opera that makes a parody of horrors of totalitarianism"

love it.

don't follow ESC and don't normally care but am low-key proud these guys are gonna be representing Croatia

not a joke entry - it's an anti-war song and it's brilliant

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[ad_1] Austrian ska-punk-meets-straightforward-rock band Russkaja just released their new album Turbo Polka Party today, and have promptly broken up. In a statement, Russkaja said their use of Russian culture and imagery doesn't quite fly anymore now that the fucking pathetic excuse for a monster Vladimir Putin is slaughtering Ukrainians in their home country under the guise of "war." Russkaja said they are not pro-Russian and have tried to dispel these rumors over the past year, but to no avail.Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Russkaja's full statement is below. "Hey there, the band Russkaja has ultimately decided to quit with the band. This is after 18 years very sad news of course, but the ongoing war in Ukraine that was initiated by Russia on Feb 20th 2022 makes it impossible for us to continue with an image and style that is making satirical use of Soviet symbols and language. The band is called Russkaja (transl. Russian) and based a lot on those attributes with a singer that was born in Russia and brought to Austria more than 30 years ago. "What once was fun in the band's music is nothing but bitter now and the band members cannot go on stage anymore without feeling that bitterness in every note played and every word sung. All the lyrics written have a totally different meaning now and none of the bandmembers wants to represent this since in these times it is only associated with war, death, crime and blood spilled. "The time has finally come to stop this. We tried to do statements, position ourselves publicly for what we stand and that's peace and unity. But we can feel that it's not enough and also it will not change anymore. We realized that this war will not stop soon and even if it would, the Soviet imagery and style is forever damaged now.Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. "Russkaja has also become a target in the web, there's shitstorms everyday and with every new single we release. People call us Russian terrorist and pro-Russian even if we are the exact opposite. Finally we also care about the safety of our crew and all people involved and we don't want to risk anything violent happening when we're on the road and playing shows. "To most of us Russkaja was not only our band but it was also our existence. This decision is very very sad for all of us but after all that happened since Feb 24 2022 we don't see any other chance here. We hope that all fans, promoters & partners can understand the hell we're going through taking our own baby to the grave after all these years. As a farewell gift we wanna give you our new album TURBO POLKA PARTY." [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Cehh-K7DI[/embed] Want More Metal? Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter Enter your e-mail below to get a daily update with all of our headlines. [ad_2] Source link

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Viktor Tsoi

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I haven’t written a reading list for Magneto before, but I know most of the big issues to hit so I’ll whip one up. 

Old School X-Men:

Uncanny X-Men #103, 111-113 - these issues cover Chris Claremont’s first swing at Magneto, establishing him as a truly badass villain on the level of Doctor Doom rather than a second-rate Snidely Whiplash. 

Uncanny X-Men #148-150 - the Octopusheim saga, where Claremont really puts his stamp onto Magneto. Magneto builds a Cthulhoid island base complete with a volcano machine, threatens world leaders with volcanic destruction unless they eliminate all nuclear and conventional arsenals and put the peace dividend into anti-poverty programs, destroys the Soviet nuclear submarine Leningrad for firing on him, almost kills Kitty Pryde and has a crisis of faith in his militant tactics, and reveals that he is a Holocaust survivor with a tragic lost wife. 

God Loves, Man Kills - Claremont’s big Statement on bigotry and prejudice, still mostly holds up. Magneto is one of the three big ideological forces in the graphic novel alongside Xavier and the Reverend Stryker. Notable for being the first example of Magneto fighting on the same side as the X-Men, and being the inspiration for the movie X2. 

Uncanny X-Men #161 - a flashback issue, where Claremont retcons that Xavier, Magneto, and Gabrielle Haller became “old friends” in Israel but established irreconcilable positions on the correct way to advance mutant rights and fight fascism, leading to their long-standing divide. 

Uncanny X-Men #199-200 - the “Trial of Magneto.” Magneto is put on trial for crimes against humanity at the World Court, defended by Gabrielle Haller. While the X-Men fight the Fenris twins to prevent them from rigging the trial, Magneto defends his actions on the grounds of radical self-defense and having been turned into a baby. Magneto saves the prosecution, defense, judge, and Xavier from Fenris, is acquitted, and agrees to replace Charles as the Headmaster of the Xavier School. 

New Mutants #35-75 - Headmaster of the Xavier School. Features Magneto as an anxious parental figure trying to raise and teach a rowdy bunch of mutant teenagers in a world that hates and fears them, dealing with everything from cosmic death-and-rebirth trauma to enforcing curfews on school nights to the Hellfire Club to trying to keep their rooms neat while respecting their desire to go to punk rock concerts. 

Classic X-Men #12 - Claremont’s origin story of Magneto, from his escape from Auschwitz to the tragic death of his daughter Anya, the traumatic emergence of his mutant powers, and his radicalization as a mutant. 

Classic X-Men #19 - Magneto, Nazi Hunter. Max hunts down Nazis in post-war Latin America on behalf of the CIA, until the revelation of Operation Paperclip causes him to lose all remaining faith in humanity and become the mutant radical/supervillain known as Magneto. 

Uncanny X-Men #269, 274-275 - Savage Land saga. Magneto encounters Rogue in the Savage Land, the two have a passionate affair that ends when Magneto kills the priestess Zaladane for stealing his powers, Magneto gets into a fight with SHIELD that leads to him leaving earth for Asteroid M. 

X-Men (Vol 2) #1-3 - Magneto sets up Asteroid M as a refuge for mutantkind backed up by nukes taken from the wreck of the Leningrad, fights with the X-Men over Moira MacTaggart’s genetic tampering with his infant body, Magneto is betrayed by Fabien Cortez, the Russians fire a plasma cannon that destroys Asteroid M in revenge for the Leningrad, seemingly killing Magneto. 

X-Factor #92, X-Force #25, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (Vol 2) #25, Wolverine (Vol 2) #75, Excalibur #71. The "Fatal Attractions" crossover. Magneto reveals that he is alive and builds the space station Avalon, meets Exodus and refounds the Acolytes which Colossus joins, threatens the world with a global EMP attack, is attacked by the X-Men to prevent this, is wounded by Wolverine and in retaliation pulls the adamantium out of Wolverine's body, nearly killing him, Xavier is convinced Magneto is now beyond saving and wipes his mind - effectively killing him.

Modern X-Men:

Magneto Testament. After some truly horrendous retcons in the late 90s, Greg Pak firmly establishes Magneto's origin as the German Jew Max Eisenhardt and his family's struggles to survive the Nazi regime by first fleeing to Warsaw and then in Auschwitz.

HOX/POX. Natch.

X-Men (2019) #4 - Magneto goes with Professor X and Apocalypse to the Davos World Economic Forum to explain how Krakoa plans to use its economic power to take over global institutions and de-platform anti-mutant bigotry.

Planet-Size X-Men - during the first Hellfire Gala, Magneto leads Krakoa's efforts to terraform Mars into a habitable planet that can house the people of Arrako, an ancient warlike society of mutants that was sundered from Krakoa in the past and that now makes up the majority of the mutant population in the Sol System.

Trial of Magneto - after reconciling with Wanda at the Hellfire Gala, Magneto is accused of her murder. The investigation and trial parallels the Quiet Council's deliberations as to whether to resurrect Wanda and what that means about her mutancy. Toad ends up taking the fall for Magneto, but it all turns out to be a rather complex plan for Wanda's creation of the "Waiting Room," a magical annex to the Krakoan resurrection system that allows for the resurrection of all mutants throughout history, even before the creation of Cerebro.

Inferno - Magneto and Xavier's efforts to destroy the anti-mutant organization ORCHIS while keeping the truth of Moira X's life come to a crashing failure.

S.W.O.R.D and X-Men Red (and a bit of AXE Judgement Day). Magneto becomes intertwined with the new society of Arrako, eventually resigning his position on the Quiet Council and moving to the red planet. While originally intending a quiet retirement, Magneto is brought into intrigues between Abigail Brand of S.W.O.R.D and Storm's Brotherhood of Mutants - leading to him joining the Brotherhood and winning a seat on Arrako's Great Ring. This leads him to adopting Arraki cultural values, most notably accepting his own mortality and rejecting Krakoan resurrection. Magneto leads the Arraki resistance to the omnicidal Eternal Uranos. Unfortunate events ensue, but it's the best end to Magneto's story that's yet been written to date.

Does anybody have a magneto reading list? I wanna read some more magneto comics. I've read house of M and house of X if that's anything to go on, and I have marvel unlimited so anything on that goes

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