Strange...❓️🤷🏻‍♂️

https://youtu.be/zdc-YjwbZ2A?si=NH7Z_35UgtC5MNz-

Maybe You, can help me understand it?

For the first time, yesterday I have finally checked what the words of this song mean.

And - I cannot understand: why *would* he want to get to that city? It sounds quite an awful place...

Perhaps could it be some aspect of Russian, or Belarusian Culture, which evades me? 🤷🏻‍♂️