
Max Burtsev
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Max Burtsev
@McSimba
🇺🇦 Creative director @ Arriba! / Founder @ Volonterska UA charity fund / Co-founder @ Hotspot School of English / blablabla






Our UkrainianFreedomNews.com created this video tribute to Ukraine’s endurance, set to the soundtrack of Sir Michael Caine reading the words of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If.” I was inspired to make this while delivering supplies to the frontline with American supporter Jim Gamache and Ukrainian civil society volunteer leader Max Burtsev, @McSimba , who also considers this his favorite poem, words which we recited on our Donbas roadtrip. Notably: In the ancient and still flourishing Ukrainian language, the word for “if” literally means “how-what”: a workman like idea of how to achieve the impossible. And Ukrainian has two words for will: a basic sense of it, буде / bude, and something higher, holier: воля / volya, the deep will to be free. “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!” —R. Kipling












