Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Evolution of an anthem.

The Soviet National Anthem in Russian.
The American Communist Party version sung by Paul Robeson in 1949. Note the praise for Stalin.
Updated for Obama sixty years later.

7 comments:

Kenny said...

Obama National anthem!! Just very sick. There is only ONE GOD and certainly not him.

TdB said...

An unbreakable union of free republics,
The Great Russia has welded forever to stand.
Long live the creation of the will of the people,
The united, mighty Soviet Union!

CHORUS:
Be glorious, our free motherland,
A reliable stronghold of the peoples' friendship!
Banner of the Soviets, Banner of the people,
May it lead from victory to victory!
Through tempests the sun of freedom shone to us,
And the great Lenin illuminated our path,
We were raised by Stalin to be true to the people,
To labour and heroic deeds he inspired us!

CHORUS:
Be glorious, our free motherland,
A reliable stronghold of the peoples' happiness!
Banner of the Soviets, Banner of the people,
May it lead from victory to victory!
We grew our army in battles,
We will sweep the vile invaders out of the way!
We shall in battle decide the fate of generations,
We shall lead to glory our Motherland!

CHORUS:
Be glorious, our free motherland,
A reliable stronghold of the peoples' glory!
Banner of the Soviets, Banner of the people,
May it lead from victory to victory!

Anonymous said...

25 second was all i could take.

glad I'm going to the range tomorrow,practice makes perfect.

Anonymous said...

You just find out about this?

One of Glenn Beck's guys wrote this in 2008.

Unfortuntely, Beck's gone downhill a lot in the last couple of years.

Anonymous said...

O say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
A tyrant in the White House and freedom taken flight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, tears are now streaming!

III

Anonymous said...

Beautiful and stirring music. One almost forgets the horror it represents.

Almost.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I'm not sure why anyone's upset by this stupid song

I don't care if writer as humor on not. Don't care if prose or not.
Sick people in the world with NO ethics or material value.