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.
>* 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.
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."
Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities. Of course it was better when it was heavily subsidised - at the cost of my (Czech) grandfathers' lives.
Source: Last year I spent 6 weeks travelling around Romania and Moldova
Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims.
>Have you been in Romania? That place is comparable to a third world country outside of major cities.
That's neither here nor there. Many countries who weren't communist at all are like that. And most of them are far worse.
>Your attempt to relativise what Soviets did is a spit in face of each one of the 65 million victims.
Well, the extravagant "65 million" number and summation of anybody that died during that era as a victim is a spit in the face of the billions who say it as their cause, overthrew colonialism in their countries, and died by the tens of millions fighting Nazis.
Stop spreading your lies and propaganda. People living under communism hated it. Even today Romania is the largest emigration source in Europe, in large due to its communist past and corrupt socialist present.
Rather than desperately trying to rewrite history, why don't you take a stroll through Cuba or Venezuela, the current and latest communism victims? Ask those people how much they like it.