Surrender

Declaration Russian Democratic Forces started this petition

In this tragic hour, we declare our strategic goals to be the cessation of aggression against Ukraine and the creation of a free, law-governed, federated Russia. To accomplish this, we deem it necessary to coordinate our actions more vigorously. We declare our commitment to the following principled positions:

1. The war against Ukraine is criminal. Russian troops must be withdrawn from all occupied territories. Russia’s internationally recognized borders must be reinstated. War criminals must be brought to justice, and compensation must be paid to the victims of the aggression.

2. The Putin regime is illegitimate and criminal. Therefore, it must be eliminated. We envision Russia as a country in which the rights and freedoms of individuals are guaranteed, and in which the possibility of usurping state power is excluded.

3. The pursuit of imperialist policies inside and outside the country is unacceptable.

4. Political prisoners and prisoners of war should be released, forcibly displaced persons should be able to return home, and abducted Ukrainian children should be returned to Ukraine.

5. We express our solidarity with those Russians who, despite the monstrous crackdown, have had the courage to publicly voice anti-Putin and anti-war stances, and with those tens of millions who refuse to be accomplices in the regime’s crimes.

The signatories of the Declaration espouse the values of a democratic society and respectful discussion. They acknowledge human rights and freedoms and the principles of diversity and equality, and they reject discrimination.

The signatories refrain from public conflicts within the democratic and the anti-war movements.

We commit ourselves to supporting this Declaration until our common strategic goals have been achieved.

Berlin, 30 April 2023

Signed publicly by:

1. La Asociación de Rusos Libres (Spain)
2. Stuttgart Activist Group
3. The Flame of Freedom Movement
4. Мedia Partisans
5. Russie-Libertés (France)
6. Mikhail Khodorkovsky, politician
7. Yevgeny Chichvarkin, member of the Russian Action Committee
8. Garry Kasparov, co-founder of the Free Russia Forum, Russian Action Committee
9. Boris Zimin
10. Yevgenia Chirikova
11. Anastasia Burakova, founder of the Ark
12. Sergey Aleksashenko
13. Yulia Latynina, writer, journalist
14. Alfred Koch
15. Mark Feygin
16. Sergei Guriev
17. Dmitry Gudkov, politician
18. Yevgeny Kiselyov
19. Kirill Rogov
20. Ivan Tyutrin
21. Maxim Reznik
22. Elena Lukyanova
23. Andrei Illarionov
24. Leonid Gozman
25. Demyan Kudryavtsev
26. Yuri Pivovarov, historian
27. Marat Guelman, SLOVONOVO Forum of Russian Culture in Europe

[and 64 other signatories]

Source: Change.org. Thanks to Boris Romanov for the heads-up. Translated by the Russian Reader

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[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Mother told me, yes, she told me
I'd meet girls like you
She also told me, "Stay away
You'll never know what you'll catch"
Just the other day I heard
Of a soldier's falling off
Some Indonesian junk
That's going 'round

[Chorus]
Mommy's alright
Daddy's alright
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Hey, hey

[Verse 2]
Father says, "Your mother's right
She's really up on things
Before we married, Mommy served
In the WACS in the Philippines”
Now, I had heard the WACs recruited
Old maids for the war
But Mommy isn't one of those
I've known her all these years

[Chorus]
Mommy's alright
Daddy's alright
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Hey, hey

[Verse 3]
Whatever happened to all this season's
Losers of the year?
Every time I got to thinking
Where'd they disappear?
But then I woke up, Mom and Dad
Are rolling on the couch
Rolling numbers, rock and rollin'
Got my KISS records out

[Chorus]
Mommy's alright
Daddy's alright
They just seem a little weird
Surrender
Surrender
But don't give yourself away
Hey, hey
Away
Away

[Outro]
Surrender (Mommy's all right)
Surrender (Daddy's all right)
But don't give yourself away
Surrender (Mommy's all right)
Surrender (Daddy's all right)
But don't give yourself away
Surrender (Mommy's all right)
Surrender (Daddy's all right)
But don't give yourself away
Surrender (Bun E.’s alright)
Surrender (Tommy’s alright)
But don't give yourself away (Robin’s alright, Rick’s alright)
Surrender (We’re all alright)
Surrender (We’re all alright)
But don't give yourself away (We’re all alright, We’re all alright)
Surrender (Mommy's all right)
Surrender (Daddy's all right)
But don't give yourself away
Surrender (Mommy's all right)
Surrender (Daddy's all right)
But don't give yourself away

Source: Genius