The holy war
The holy war ( Russian Священная война , transcription Swjashchennaja woina , transliterated Svjaščennaja vojna ) is one of the most famous Soviet songs dedicated to the Second World War .
The text was written by Vasily Lebedew-Kumatsch in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union and published in Izvestia on June 24, 1941 . The music was then composed by the author of the Soviet anthem , Alexander Alexandrow . The song was completed on June 26, 1941, a few days after the start of the war. It had its world premiere in front of the Belarusian train station in Moscow, where volunteers were sent off to the front. At first it was rarely broadcast because it was about a fatal battle rather than an easy victory soon. From the fall of 1941, however, it was broadcast every morning on Soviet radio . The annual parade on Victory Day on the Red Square in Moscow will each also launched in Russia today with this song.
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- ↑ "Partisans, come, take me with you!" In Melody and Rhythm 3/2015.
- ↑ Irina Wolkowa: Russia's singing weapon in Neues Deutschland from June 22, 2011.
- ↑ Natalia Viktorova: Victory Day Parade - 900 men make music . ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Newseurope, May 11, 2013, accessed December 27, 2016.
