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'''Sacred War''' also known as '''Let Noble Rage''' is the most popular song of [[World War II]] written in [[Russia]]. Two days after the outbreak of the war, on June 24, 1941, the lyrics of the song appeared simultaneously in the newspapers ''Izvestia'' and ''Red Star'', signed by the Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. Former [[GRU]] officer and defector [[Viktor Suvorov]] claims that the order to write the song for the liberation of the German-occupied Europe came from Stalin: "Stalin needed a song about the great war against Germany in 1941. And Stalin ordered such a song." | '''Sacred War''' also known as '''Let Noble Rage''' is the most popular song of [[World War II]] written in [[Russia]]. Two days after the outbreak of the war, on June 24, 1941, the lyrics of the song appeared simultaneously in the newspapers ''Izvestia'' and ''Red Star'', signed by the Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. Former [[GRU]] officer and defector [[Viktor Suvorov]] claims that the order to write the song for the liberation of the German-occupied Europe came from Stalin: "Stalin needed a song about the great war against Germany in 1941. And Stalin ordered such a song." | ||
| − | The song is still routinely performed today at patriotic events in Russia, and Russian audiences, old and young, stand for its performance. With lyrics such as "rotten [[fascist]] [[vermin]] scum of humanity," [[Youtube]] has | + | The song is still routinely performed today at patriotic events in Russia, and Russian audiences, old and young, stand for its performance. With lyrics such as "rotten [[fascist]] [[vermin]] scum of humanity," [[Youtube]] has deemed "inappropriate or offensive for some audiences."<ref>*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2N366xn6V4&t=132s The Sacred War! (English Lyrics)]. youtube (Viewer discretion is advised}.</ref> |
==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
Revision as of 01:48, May 31, 2021
Sacred War also known as Let Noble Rage is the most popular song of World War II written in Russia. Two days after the outbreak of the war, on June 24, 1941, the lyrics of the song appeared simultaneously in the newspapers Izvestia and Red Star, signed by the Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. Former GRU officer and defector Viktor Suvorov claims that the order to write the song for the liberation of the German-occupied Europe came from Stalin: "Stalin needed a song about the great war against Germany in 1941. And Stalin ordered such a song."
The song is still routinely performed today at patriotic events in Russia, and Russian audiences, old and young, stand for its performance. With lyrics such as "rotten fascist vermin scum of humanity," Youtube has deemed "inappropriate or offensive for some audiences."[1]
Lyrics
The huge country is rising
Is rising for the deathly battle
Against the dark fascist force
Against their cursed hordes
Refrain:
Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War
We'll resist the oppressors
Of right ideas
Rapists, bandits
People's tormentors
Refrain:
Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War
Don't their black wings dare
Fly over our Motherland
Don't the ennemy dare tread
Our immense fields
Refrain:
Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War
Let us put a bullet into the brow
Of the rotten fascist vermin
Let us make a strong coffin
For such breed
Refrain:
Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War[2]
References
- ↑ *The Sacred War! (English Lyrics). youtube (Viewer discretion is advised}.
- ↑ https://marxists.architexturez.net/history/ussr/sounds/lyrics/sviashchennaia-vojna.htm
