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To: waterhill
The Hymn to the Soviet Union--original version, before de-Stalinization.

Note The English translation of the chorus is, "be glorious, our free motherland." The word is actually "fatherland."

19 posted on 05/01/2015 9:30:08 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Russians refer it to the “Motherland”, Germans call it the “Fatherland”.


20 posted on 05/01/2015 9:31:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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