In early October, Grup Yorum had a big program in Russia and Belarus, spreading the ideas of antifascism and anti-imperialism through their art and calling for the unification of the peoples of the former USSR with other peoples of the world in a united struggle against US imperialism.
On October 4, Grup Yorum, together with the Russian folk ensemble “Grenada,” gave a concert in Moscow, attended by approximately 200 people, including members of the Turkish diaspora. The concert featured anti-fascist and revolutionary songs, folk songs, and international ones. Grup Yorum and Grenada performed several songs together. The Turkish diaspora, along with Muscovites, danced the Halai folk dance in front of the stage.
The concert was attended by representatives of various Communist parties and leftist organizations, including the Inter-Brigade of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Following the events in Moscow, the musicians traveled to Belarus, where they screened their documentary “8 Days in Donbass” and gave a concert.
The documentary screening was organized in the Belarusian regional city of Gomel with the help of local anti-fascist comrades. In a small room, attendees enthusiastically watched footage of the pain and joys of the people of Donbass, who have been fighting fascism for 11 years.
The documentary was made by Grup Yorum to expose the crimes of the fascism and bring the truth about the war in Ukraine to the people. The main thing that this film gives is the hope that the Resistance, the struggle against fascism and imperialism, will win.
On October 11, Grup Yorum gave a concert in Minsk, which was attended by about 50 people, including Turks living in Belarus. The audience greeted the songs with applause and sang along with the musicians. The concert was heartfelt and enthusiastically received by the audience, as the values that Grup Yorum spoke and sang about are close to the Belarusian people.
The concert hall also featured an exhibition dedicated to the resistance of Turkish political prisoners against the isolation pit-type prisons and the March to Palestine, in which Grup Yorum’s bass guitarist participated. Among the prisoners resisting isolation with hunger strikes are also members of Grup Yorum.
The concert was attended by members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, which awarded the musicians commemorative medals in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and World War II for their firm anti-fascist and anti-imperialist position.
The concerts in Moscow and Minsk were organized with the help of local communists, including a representative of the Anti-Imperialist Front – Belarus. They were held under the slogan: “Long live the brotherhood of peoples against imperialist aggression.”
The Turkish revolutionary band Grup Yorum is eagerly awaited once again in Russia and Belarus.
