Brother No. 1

It seems like a pretty cool site, I'll look through it.

Woah I didn't even know. I shall bake a huge cake in the shape of Mao's head. lol

I find it fitting. Some people just don't bother listening. Even if it's the 2nd or 3rd time.

The 1993 anthem is actually called the "Song of Glinka" and came from the 19th century. Yeltsin tried hard introducing lyrics to this song but it never came through, and I agree that it does suck as a song and is understandable why Putin borrowed Alexandrov's song because it was much more inspirational. Ironically, they played "Song of Glinka" at Yeltsin's funeral as an interesting sidenote.

I never liked the "Party of Lenin" references in the '77 version. They remove Stalin but go on overkill with Lenin, and with the new version it's either about Russia, god, or sacred land and the lyrics just don't have the zing like the older versions did because of the revolutionary content.

It's actually my rendition of the anthem, combining the 1944 and 1977 versions as they were officially translated on Wikipedia, adding the third verse of the '77 version as a fourth verse and echoing the chorus style of the '44 version. I liked both third verses from both versions, so rather than picking one over the other, I figured they get equal coverage.

The phrase "welded together forever to stand" is a tribute to Paul Robeson's version, as I don't like the phrase "Great Russia has welded together to stand." Gives the song a much more international character.

For the second verse, I changed the words a bit in homage to the final verse of "Anthem of the Bolshevik Party."

And of course, I think the current Anthem of Russia (2000) absolutely sucks. Every time I hear the anthem be it Soviet or Russian, I always sing along to the Soviet lyrics- especially my rendition of it and replay the third verse on recordings to get all four verses in.

Well, thank you for the request.

The site is under re-construction for the past week or two.
Should be up and running again in a few weeks.