So there’s this band from Belarus called Irdorath who play what they call fantasy folk:
In 2020 they joined protests against Lukashenko and his blatantly falsified elections, performing the anthem of the protest movement, Victor Tsoi’s “Peremen” - “We wait for changes”:
Changes unfortunately did not come and a year later, amid widespread crackdown against the opposition, Lukashenko regime arrested the leaders of the band. They were sentenced to two years in prison on a charge that their music incited other protestors to attack the police. But now they’re finally out of prison, out of Belarus, and out with a defiant new song - “We’ll be the starlights”:
My BIL had it when he was like… 19… he can walk now, but it took a very long time to get back to being ambulatory, and he still doesn’t walk quite right, like on the sides of his feet.
There is also a theory that that was really what FDR had, not polio, since he had it as an adult…
