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The change of the Soviet Union's national anthem from "The Internationale" to the "State Anthem of the USSR" was a factor in the production of the 1944 movie Hymn of the Nations, which made use of an orchestration of "The Internationale" that Arturo Toscanini had already done the year before for a 1943 NBC radio broadcast commemorating the ...
The federal legislature established and approved the music of the National Anthem of the Soviet Union, with newly written lyrics, in December 2000. [citation needed] Boris Yeltsin criticized Putin for supporting the semi-reintroduction of the Soviet-era national anthem, although some opinion polls showed that many Russians favored this decision ...
The lyrics of the "March of the Volunteers", also formally known as the National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, were composed by Tian Han in 1934 [8] as two stanzas in his poem "The Great Wall" (萬里長城), (义勇军进行曲) intended either for a play he was working on at the time [9] or as part of the script for Diantong's ...
Lyrics by folk group Quilapayún. It was adapted from chants used during Salvador Allende's presidential campaign, and after he was deposed, it became a common protest song worldwide. [26] [27] Venceremos: Sergio Ortega: 1970 Chile: The anthem of Salvador Allende's presidential campaign. [28] Solidaritätslied: Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler ...
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the last republic to adopt a state anthem, doing so in 1990. It had had none before this date, and used in its place the Soviet national anthem, which was "The Internationale" from 1917 to 1944 and the "National Anthem of the Soviet Union" from 1944 to 1990.
"The East Is Red" is a Chinese Communist Party revolutionary song that was the de facto national anthem of the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The lyrics of the song were attributed to Li Youyuan (李有源), a farmer from Shaanbei (northern Shaanxi), and the melody was derived from a local peasant love song from the Loess Plateau entitled "Bai Ma Diao ...
The Anthem of the Bolshevik Party (Russian: Гимн партии большевиков) is a Russian communist song composed by Alexander Alexandrov. Its lyrics are written by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. The opening bars of the song is sampled from Life Has Become Better (Жить стало лучше), one of Alexandrov's previous pieces.
The national anthem was adopted in Taiwan on October 25, 1945 after the surrender of Imperial Japan. Mainland China, being governed by the People's Republic of China today, discontinued this national anthem for "March of the Volunteers". The national anthem's words are adapted from a 1924 speech by Sun Yat-sen in 1937. The lyrics relate to how ...