The claim
In front of the Reichstag, a girl is supposed to sing about how all Russians should be destroyed.
Our conclusion
She doesn't use the Ukrainian word for Russians, but sings about "Russnia", which is more of a derogatory term for the Russian soldiers, but can also be used as a derisive term for all Russians.
There is no question: except for a few people in this country (who are all the louder), everyone agrees that Russia is waging an illegitimate war of aggression against Ukraine.
No surprise either: the Ukrainians don't particularly like this, so they naturally express their disapproval. In this context, a short video is circulating in which a girl can be seen singing a song in front of the Reichstag. But in the last line is she singing about Russian soldiers or about all Russians?
The distributed video
In the short video, a girl, wrapped in a Ukrainian flag, is seen singing the last lines of a song with Ukrainian lyrics to the tune of the partisan song “ Bella Ciao .”

In the last lines of the song it is unanimously stated that the girl is singing about how “ soon there will be no more Russians ” and then there will be “ peace all over the world ” – for relevant circles this is clear evidence that Ukrainians are in fact fascists , who want to wipe out Russia (without considering that Russia is currently trying to wipe out Ukraine).
A look at the lines of text
The Ukrainian cover version of “Bella Ciao” sung by the girl can also be found on YouTube, including German subtitles:
In the last lines of the text she doesn't sing directly about Russians, but about "Russnia", which was also marked with a star in the subtitles because there is a note about it in the description of the video.

The complete last lines are translated as:
And our people here, the Ukrainians
The whole world has already united against Russnia*
And soon there will be no more Russnia*
But there will be peace in the world
The description of the video says:
“Russnia” is Ukrainian slang for aggressive, xenophobic Russians influenced by the Kremlin propaganda of Russian Imperial Nazism
The colleagues at Correctiv gave the song to a translator who examined the lines. She confirmed the statement in the description of the video: The word “Russnia” is a colloquial term for Russian soldiers and has been “heard often since the beginning of the war.” In rare cases, however, it refers to all Russians across the board.
Looking at different sites , we can deduce that the word “Russnia” (русня) is a derivative of “Russians” (русские) and is used as an offensive word. In 2014, the word appeared frequently, with many Ukrainians using “Russia” to describe Russian citizens who supported the annexation of Crimea and Russian politicians who spoke out against the independence of the former Soviet republics and advocated the re-establishment of the Great Russian Empire (Rusnya).
Hatred of Russia or hatred of Russian soldiers?
As you can see, that clearly cannot be said. The song is entirely about Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, so it makes sense that "Russnia" specifically refers to the attacking soldiers. In the past, too, it was used to refer to Russians who spoke out in favor of a Greater Russia within the old borders.
However, it can also be translated differently, namely directed mockingly towards all Russians. And there it is now in the eye of the beholder: As “outsiders” we can still take a relatively objective look at the situation, we can still say that not all Russians are like that, that they are “brainwashed”, that they are to blame Putin and his generals should give, but not all of Russia.
But what does it look like from the Ukrainians' point of view? They really don't have the peace to philosophize about whether only Putin and his generals and soldiers or all Russians are evil when rockets are flying around their ears at the same time. Perhaps for this reason the text is ambiguous: “Russia” can mean the soldiers, but with a different interpretation it can also mean all Russians.
But would it then be fascism? Can you really call it fascism when an attacked people is angry at the attacking country and its inhabitants and uses a curse word? Should someone who beats me be offended when I call them an asshole and then claim I'm a bully for calling them that?
The lyrics are definitely not very politically correct. But that is not a war of aggression against a small neighboring country. And words don't kill. Rockets do.
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