[qychtkd]

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.

[lb1lf]

-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]

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]

> 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).

[matt4077]

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

[TomMarius]

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

[coldtea]

It wasn't destroyed.

[TomMarius]

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]

>* 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]

Oh please. Tell that to the people occupied by them from 1968 to 1989. I'm happy to put you in contact.

[coldtea]

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.