He inspired us for labour and for acts of heroism

The Sun of the freedom was shining through the storms It leads us to the triumph of the Communism

Party of Lenin is the power of the people The stronghold of the friendship of peoples Long live the united and mighty Soviet Union See also: National Anthems of the USSR and Union Republics 1977 Literal Translation In the vict'ry of Communism's deathless ideal, Inspired them to labour and valourous deed. To a righteous cause he raised up the peoples, Through tempests the sunrays of freedom have cheered us,Īlong the new path where great Lenin did lead. O Party of Lenin, the strength of the people, Sing to the Motherland, home of the free,īulwark of peoples in brotherhood strong. Great Russia has welded forever to stand.Ĭreated in struggle by will of the people, Transliteration from Russian according to the ISO 9 standardĮnglish lyrics Unbreakable Union of freeborn Republics, For the official versions in other languages of the USSR see other language versions. See National Anthem of Russiaīelow is the Russian and the English versions of the lyrics both can be sung to the music. In 2000, the old Soviet national anthem was readopted with Mikhalkov writing new lyrics to represent Russia's new non-communist nature. The official name of the 1977 version was 'The State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' ( Russian: Госуда́рственный гимн Сою́за Сове́тских Социалисти́ческих Респу́блик).Īfter the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia adopted a new national anthem. In 1977, the lyrics were reused with Stalin's name omitted, and other changes were made (see below). From then on until 1977, the lyrics were not sung to the anthem.

Stalin was originally mentioned in the lyrics however, after his death in 1953, the lyrics referring to Stalin were unacceptable. The song was originally written as the Anthem of the Bolshevik Party with lyrics in Alexandrine by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach in 1939. It was believed that Soviet soldiers would respond more to an anthem that was dedicated only to the Soviet Union rather than to a worldwide movement. The lyrics were written by Sergey Mikhalkov (born 1913) in collaboration with Gabriel El-Registan and the music was composed by Alexander Alexandrov ( 1883- 1946). National Anthem of the USSR ( Hymn, Гимн Советского Союза) replaced the Internationale as the national anthem on March 15, 1944.

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