Soviet solders in Berlin | The Sacred War | WW2 in color | Russian war music | Soviet march

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"The Sacred War" is a patriotic song of the period of the Great Patriotic War, which became the anthem of the defense of the Motherland. The music of the song combines the formidable tread of the march and the wide melodic chant

Two days after the start of the war, on June 24, 1941, simultaneously in the newspapers Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda, the text of the song "Holy War" was published signed by the famous Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate V. I. Lebedev-Kumach. Immediately after the publication, the composer A. V. Alexandrov wrote music for it. There was no time to print words and notes, and Alexandrov wrote them on the blackboard with chalk, and the singers and musicians copied them into their notebooks. Another day was set aside for rehearsal.

On June 26, 1941, at the Belorussky railway station, one of the groups of the Red Banner Ensemble of the Red Army Song and Dance of the USSR that had not yet left for the front performed this song for the first time.

The Sacred War

The huge country is rising
Is rising for the deathly battle
Against the dark fascist force
Against their cursed hordes

Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War

Will resist the oppressors
Of right notions (ideas)
Rapists, bandits
People's tormentors

Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War

Don't their black wings dare
Fly over our Motherland
Don't the enemy dare tread
Our immense fields

Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War

Let us put a bullet into the brow
Of the rotten fascist vermin
Let us make a strong coffin
For such breed

Let our noble wrath
Seethe like waves
The national war is going
The Sacred War

1941