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I’d say the Soviet anthem is one of the best there is. They missed it so much it was brought back as the Russian national anthem after Yeltsin. Red Army Chorus

I’d say the Soviet anthem is one of the best there is. They missed it so much it was brought back as the Russian national anthem after Yeltsin. Red Army Chorus has some good tracks like it. Very catchy and “patriotic” if you are in line to fight western imperialism.

TomMarius 7y ago
I'm always sad how such a beautiful song had to be destroyed by such evil.
- coldtea 7y ago
  It wasn't destroyed.
  - TomMarius 7y ago
    Huh? Connection with the Soviet Union and especially the Red Army surely destroys it for most, if not all, people I know. This song is most often described as "beautiful, but turn it fucking off because it reminds me of my dead family" around me. What is it, if not destroyed? Merely playing it in my headphones because of its beauty made me despisable in the eyes of my former classmates. Even I can't stop thinking about all the evil the Soviets did to my family while listening to it.
    - coldtea 7y ago
      >* Huh? Connection with the Soviet Union and especially the Red Army surely destroys it for most, if not all, people I know. * Those people are shallow. It's one of the most beloved anthems globally. Go check the comments in renditions of the anthem in YouTube. Nobody cares if it was connected to USSR or not, the same way people can admire Gagarin and not care about the USSR connection. Not to mention that there are worse things to be connected to than USSR -- USSR had several stages, including a more open stage (with many social firsts) in the NEP era, and a more or less conventional and more open post-60s part, it wasn't just stalinism and suppression all the way.
      - TomMarius 7y ago
        Oh please. Tell that to the people occupied by them from 1968 to 1989. I'm happy to put you in contact.
        coldtea 7y ago
        Well, I just happened to have feedback from some of them, e.g. in Romania: "The INSCOP Research poll revealed that 44.4 percent of the respondents believed that living conditions were better under communism, 15.6 said that they had stayed the same, while only 33.6 claimed that life was worse back then." And that's from 2014.
        TomMarius 7y ago
        Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities. Of course it was better when it was heavily subsidised - at the cost of my (Czech) grandfathers' lives. Source: Last year I spent 6 weeks travelling around Romania and Moldova Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims.
        vladbb 7y ago
        In God we trust, all others bring data. The Romanians
        coldtea 7y ago
        >Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities. That's neither here nor there. Many countries who weren't communist at all are like that. And most of them are far worse. >Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims. Well, the extravagant "65 million" number and summation of anybody that died during that era as a victim is a spit in the face of the billions who say it as their cause, overthrew colonialism in their countries, and died by the tens of millions fighting Nazis.
matt4077 7y ago
Their rendition of Bella Ciao is my favorite. (Read the lyric’s translation if you haven’t already).
lb1lf 7y ago
-They've kept the melody (which, I agree, as far as national anthems go, is the one to beat) - but the lyrics have changed, three times I believe in Soviet times and then again as it became Russia's anthem. Now they're stuck with it, though - all versions had lyrics written by the same guy, Sergei Mikhalkov, who died in 2009.
sandworm101 7y ago
It's is a communist anthem. So it is meant to be sung by a group, ussually with instruments too. It is therefore always more impressive than others like the american which are mostly performed as solos. There was a canadian opera singer who did anthems for hockey games. He would sing three notes then turn the mic to the crowd. That is how national anthems should be done. There is also a great vid of a game where the american soloist had a mic fail. The canadian crowd finished the american anthem for her.
- chupasaurus 7y ago
  > It's is a communist anthem. So it is meant to be sung by a group, ussually with instruments too. The song was made originally as Bolsheviks' Party anthem with completely different lyrics (and author of them).

TomMarius 7y ago

I'm always sad how such a beautiful song had to be destroyed by such evil.

coldtea 7y ago
It wasn't destroyed.
- TomMarius 7y ago
  Huh? Connection with the Soviet Union and especially the Red Army surely destroys it for most, if not all, people I know. This song is most often described as "beautiful, but turn it fucking off because it reminds me of my dead family" around me. What is it, if not destroyed? Merely playing it in my headphones because of its beauty made me despisable in the eyes of my former classmates. Even I can't stop thinking about all the evil the Soviets did to my family while listening to it.
  - coldtea 7y ago
    >* Huh? Connection with the Soviet Union and especially the Red Army surely destroys it for most, if not all, people I know. * Those people are shallow. It's one of the most beloved anthems globally. Go check the comments in renditions of the anthem in YouTube. Nobody cares if it was connected to USSR or not, the same way people can admire Gagarin and not care about the USSR connection. Not to mention that there are worse things to be connected to than USSR -- USSR had several stages, including a more open stage (with many social firsts) in the NEP era, and a more or less conventional and more open post-60s part, it wasn't just stalinism and suppression all the way.
    - TomMarius 7y ago
      Oh please. Tell that to the people occupied by them from 1968 to 1989. I'm happy to put you in contact.
      - coldtea 7y ago
        Well, I just happened to have feedback from some of them, e.g. in Romania: "The INSCOP Research poll revealed that 44.4 percent of the respondents believed that living conditions were better under communism, 15.6 said that they had stayed the same, while only 33.6 claimed that life was worse back then." And that's from 2014.
        TomMarius 7y ago
        Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities. Of course it was better when it was heavily subsidised - at the cost of my (Czech) grandfathers' lives. Source: Last year I spent 6 weeks travelling around Romania and Moldova Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims.
        vladbb 7y ago
        In God we trust, all others bring data. The Romanians
        coldtea 7y ago
        >Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities. That's neither here nor there. Many countries who weren't communist at all are like that. And most of them are far worse. >Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims. Well, the extravagant "65 million" number and summation of anybody that died during that era as a victim is a spit in the face of the billions who say it as their cause, overthrew colonialism in their countries, and died by the tens of millions fighting Nazis.

matt4077 7y ago

Their rendition of Bella Ciao is my favorite. (Read the lyric’s translation if you haven’t already).

lb1lf 7y ago

-They've kept the melody (which, I agree, as far as national anthems go, is the one to beat) - but the lyrics have changed, three times I believe in Soviet times and then again as it became Russia's anthem. Now they're stuck with it, though - all versions had lyrics written by the same guy, Sergei Mikhalkov, who died in 2009.

sandworm101 7y ago

It's is a communist anthem. So it is meant to be sung by a group, ussually with instruments too. It is therefore always more impressive than others like the american which are mostly performed as solos. There was a canadian opera singer who did anthems for hockey games. He would sing three notes then turn the mic to the crowd. That is how national anthems should be done. There is also a great vid of a game where the american soloist had a mic fail. The canadian crowd finished the american anthem for her.

chupasaurus 7y ago
> It's is a communist anthem. So it is meant to be sung by a group, ussually with instruments too. The song was made originally as Bolsheviks' Party anthem with completely different lyrics (and author of them).