In the clip above, the ceremony takes place to the sound of "Horn of Plenty," a piece composed by James Newton Howard and used in the "Hunger Games" films. You have to wonder if it even occurred to the Russian authorities that playing music from the film "The Hunger Games" where teenagers try to kill one another for rich people's entertainment was perhaps not the most appropriate they could have used. The Panem anthem is played whenever the fallen die in the dystopian novels and films.

Source: Newsweek

Russian authorities have unveiled a monument to a soldier killed in Ukraine to the soundtrack of the dystopian "Hunger Games" films, footage posted to social media shows.

The statue, which appears in a clip posted to Telegram by Russian independent outlet Novaya Gazeta, was created in memory of a 21-year-old soldier from the Buryatia republic in eastern Siberia, the outlet wrote in a post alongside the video.

The soldier was named by the outlet as Dmitry Farshinyov, who was killed in Ukraine on April 5, 2022, according to a local Telegram channel for Buryatia. In May 2022, Alexey Tsydenov, the head of the Buryatia republic, said Farshinyov had been posthumously awarded the title of "Hero of Russia" after serving in the 11th Guards Airborne Assault Brigade, citing the same date of death for the soldier.

Despite being "wounded several times, he did not give up—covering his colleagues, saving the unit, he went to the end, repelling enemy attacks," Tsydenov wrote on Telegram on May 21, 2022.