Whenever I stumble across a song I like on youtube I download it into my personal music folder, I started this practice more than 4 years ago and I accumulated a large amount of socialist music from very niche spaces, spanning across a wide variety of languages. Because I see that nobody else is doing this specific thing on this site, I feel compelled to share this collection track by track, maybe it will lead to someone else also feeling the same inspiration that I felt when first listening to it.
Victory day is not here just yet, but today, tomorrow and on the 9th of May I will post songs 3 songs related to Soviet Union's fight and eventual victory over the fascist menace.
To start, here is my favorite version of Sacred War, the anthem of the Great Patriotic War. It is a powerful rendition which describes itself as being the "metal version", although I sadly have no clue who created it or exactly when, I enjoy it nonetheless. I find it great for the purpose of motivating myself for a difficult task.
To go along with the song, here is the official translation of the lyrics in English:
Arise, vast country,
Arise for a fight to the death
Against the dark fascist force,
Against the cursed horde.
Chorus:
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people's war,
A Sacred War!
We shall repulse the oppressors
Of all ardent ideas,
Theremoveds and the plunderers,
The torturers of people!
Chorus
The black wings shall not dare
Fly over the Motherland,
On her spacious fields;
The enemy shall not dare tread!
Chorus
We'll drive a bullet into the forehead
Of the rotten fascist filth.
For the scum of humanity,
We shall build a solid coffin!
Chorus