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“Never Ever Can We Be Brothers” (Russian : «Никогда мы не будем братьями») is a pro-Euromaidan poem written in Russian by Anastasia Dmitruk in response to the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. [1] [2] The poem celebrates the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and rejects "Great Russia":
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Freedom’s foreign to you, unattained;
From your childhood, you’ve been chained.
In your home, “silence is golden” prevails,
But we’re raising up Molotov cocktails.
In our hearts, blood is boiling, sizzling.
And you’re kin? – you blind ones, miserly?
There’s no fear in our eyes; it’s effortless,
We are dangerous even weaponless... [3]
A YouTube video of Dmitruk reading her poem went viral, quickly accumulating more than a million views. A song based on the poem was created by Lituanian musicians from Klaipėda. [4] [5] It also quickly accumulated more than a million views. The poem was hotly debated in the press and received many thousands of responses from Russians and Ukrainians. [6] According to Yuri Loza, the "elder Russian brothers" in the poem appear as the reincarnation of Big Brother from Nineteen Eighty-Four . [7] It is one of the two most popular poems which were written in Ukraine immediately following the Euromaidan. [8] According to literary critics, the poem might have been influenced by Russian translation of the "Britons never will be slaves!". [8]