Song of the Motherland (1935)


Music: Isaak Dunaevskii. Lyrics: Vasilii Lebedev-Kumach
Description: Written for the movie ‘Circus’, its popularity was so immense that the melody became the broadcast signal for Radio Moscow in the 1930s, and served as unofficial national anthem until 1943. Its optimistic and patriotic words were even cited by one of Stalin s purge victims at his trial the day before he was executed.

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