Dmitri Hvorostovsky “The Cranes” The Russian war song “Cranes” (“Журавли”) is a very famous and emotional song about soldiers who died in World War II. The song imagines that soldiers who died in the war did not simply vanish — instead, their souls turned into white cranes flying across the sky. The singer feels that one day he too will become one of those cranes. It’s a metaphor for memory, loss, and the eternal presence of the fallen. Exactly 80 years ago, on May 9, 1945, the final Act of unco

How incredible is this drone footage of the cranes at Limerick's Opera Site captured by Dean O’Donoghue 😍 | Live 95