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“winter will be long“, Warns Gazprom in a short video production that was broadcast on social networks and shows what, in the opinion of the Russian gas company, will happen in Europe if the supply of natural gas remains suspended: a kind of “ice age ” to freeze the major European cities.
The soundtrack is melancholy and the images disturbing. At the beginning of the video, which is less than two minutes long, a pipeline worker turns a knob counterclockwise, bringing the pressure in the pipeline to zero. There, the image jumps to a computer recreation of some European cities devastated by the cold, from Brussels to London.
The video was shared on Twitter by an adviser to the Ukrainian government, Anton Geraschenko, who rhetorically asks: “Do you really believe that you can kill thousands of Ukrainians, capture territories of another country, and Europe will pretend not to see it, just because it is afraid of blackmail using natural gas?” he asks.
The Russian Gazprom published a video “Winter will be great” where the company turns off the flow of gas and begins the ice age in Europe.
Do you really think that you can kill thousands of Ukrainians, capture another country’s territory, and Europe will look the other way, afraid of gas blackmail? pic.twitter.com/5Zwjg3x9su
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) September 5, 2022
The melancholic soundtrack is written by composer Yuri Vizbor and accompanied by vocals by Varvara Vizbor, and was purposely not written for the video. The lyrics of the song speak of a “long cold winter”: “Winter will be long / Look behind the river / Autumn dies slowly / And waves a yellow hand / Crushing the snow / The sun will come to spring / And the winter will be long / Only twilight and snow.
The video was released after Russia’s Gazprom failed to resume Russian natural gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline last Saturday, as (partially) expected. Moscow came out on Monday to blame Western countries as it viewed the interruption of Nord Stream 1 as a consequence of sanctions and hinted that supply would not be restarted unless sanctions were lifted.
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Text updated at 22:39
Source: Observadora
