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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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I love how many different versions of it are out there with wildly different lyrics... but yeah, on the point that Soviet songs are way better, sorry Western antifascists, I gotta agree with you. Though that's probably my personal biases at play, I love Soviet war songs (and the pre/during revolution era Bolshevik stuff's good in a very "shows its age" way).
I think it frames very well what was at stake during the Russian Revolution: a fucking return to monarchic absolutism!
Oh yeah, the messaging of pretty much all of them is great, I just mean some of the traditional melodies don't really sound quite like we expect from "commie war songs" today, or like later Soviet revolutionary songs.