Red Army Choir – The Guard Song (Наша гвардия)
by admin on Jan.28, 2012, under Datacenter
Song about heroism of the guard soldiers of the Red Army. Visit english.pobediteli.ru Text added thx to SlovenskiPartizan. Thank you comrade. Our Guards Music: A. Alexandrov Lyrics: A. Argo Морозные, лютые были деньки, Был грозен годок сорок первый. В кольцо под Москвою сжимались полки – Фашистских злодеев резервы. Припев: Удалая гвардия, да боевая гвардия, Отчизны советской железный оплот. Могучая и скорая, та самая, которая Без устали рубит, без промаха бьет, Без промаха бьет! Мы грудью стояли за землю свою, И враг получил по заслугам. Уж он не забудет вовек Верею, Запомнит и Клин, и Калугу! Припев. Награда за подвигом смелым идет, И Сталин беседует с нами. Он смотрит в глаза нам, и руки нам жмет, И дарит Гвардейское знамя! Припев. Пока огневые не смолкли бои, Мы жара в душе не остудим. И подвиги мы увеличим свои, И новую славу добудем! Припев. 1944 The englilsh translation was added, its a rough tranlation, so dont get too angry, if some words arent translated correctly. I did what I could.
January 28th, 2012 on 1:20 pm
@MrBramthebird He may have been aware, but there was little that could be done about it. Eastern Europe is prone to food shortages, and there have been many, many famines there over the centuries. It was not a desirable situation, but the only way that they could have been saved is if the Soviet government were composed of wizards, capable of conjuring large amounts of relief food. Also, Stalin didn’t actually say that. I can’t remember exactly who did, but it wasn’t Stalin.
January 28th, 2012 on 1:37 pm
@MisanthropicMarxist [contd.] the famine caused the death by starvation of at least 2.4 million normal citizens. Even if some people claim that the number was 10+ million, you cannot say that 2.4 million innocent,normal people dead is agreeable. If me or you had lived then, we could have died the same.
Stalin’s famous quote well summarizes the ruthlessness of the Soviet policy towards these and other atrocities committed under Soviet rule: “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.”
January 28th, 2012 on 1:53 pm
@MisanthropicMarxist read this: en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Holodomor#The_special_nature_of_famine_in_Ukraine about a summary of passed laws that largely created the famine and: en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Holodomor
These articles point towards the Soviet government as main suspect for the Ukranian famine. Even if the government had not deliberately planned the famine, they did nothing to aid their starving citizens. Stalin must have been aware of this.
January 28th, 2012 on 1:59 pm
@MrBramthebird I don’t doubt that Wikipedia says otherwise, but there is no evidence for official planning of the Ukranian famine, and the numbers themselves have been inflated by using faulty calculations(the most popular method is to look at population growth rates and measure accordingly, but they fail to take into account the significant social upheaval’s effects on the rate of growth). This same tactic is often used on the Soviet Union in general, again without consideration
January 28th, 2012 on 2:34 pm
@MisanthropicMarxist This may sound stupid, but Wikipedia says otherwise. Pages on people like Stalin are closely moderated and checked accordingly to multiple verifiable and trustworthy sources. Check this out: en . wikipedia. org/ wiki/ Stalin # Calculating_the_number_of_victims
This credits him sometimes with even more ‘kills’ than Hitler (11 million), although I believe that under Mao even more people were killed than both Hitler and Stalin. Gotta check my source on that one, though.
January 28th, 2012 on 2:41 pm
Good music, but man, am I glad the communist days are over!
January 28th, 2012 on 3:23 pm
January 28th, 2012 on 3:46 pm
@DarkGreenMenace While I don’t deny that Stalin had some unpalatable things done during his tenure, I would argue that there really isn’t enough hard evidence to accuse him of the kinds of atrocities which have become synonymous with his name. A great book on the subject (albeit one which is somewhat hard to get your hands on) is “Khrushchev Lied,” by Prof. Grover Furr. He exposes the entire de-Stalinization program through evidenciary analysis, and it’s worth reading.
January 28th, 2012 on 4:02 pm
In which country? In any case, those were the result of Stalin, and Stalinism. It’s not as if the Russians as a whole were some menace. The echelons of both sides were horrendous, but the Nazi’s were far worse in that almost their entire country supported the wars and their causes. The Soviets fought out of defense, and then later Stalin used it to gain the Eastern bloc. No matter how you slice it, saying the Russians were worse than Hitler is not a correct. Stalin? Maybe. The people? No.
January 28th, 2012 on 4:51 pm
@DarkGreenMenace What about the tens of thousands executed or sent to die in labor camps?
January 28th, 2012 on 5:32 pm
@Jc40k1 As for the “liberated countries,” of course they made less progress than the western european countries. 1, they never really were par with western europe in the first place, and 2, by doctrine capitalism is rapid and grossly profitable in bursts, while communism is slow to start and sustainable(in theory). Many eastern bloc countries had farmers who appreciated Soviet intervention because they invested in their agriculture. The bottom line rose a little, while the top line fell greatly.
January 28th, 2012 on 5:39 pm
@Jc40k1 They did partition Poland together because they both had interests in it, however Soviet xenophobia and Nazi anti-anything that isn’t fascist-ism would have barred any attempted relations.
January 28th, 2012 on 6:29 pm
@DarkGreenMenace If Hitler didn’t attack stalin, they probably would’ve been on the same side, they both invaded Poland. None of the countries “liberated” by the soviets after the war fared very well compared to the western half of europe.
January 28th, 2012 on 6:56 pm
@Jc40k1 And one more thing to consider, if you count all of the people who died as a result of Hitler’s aggression, I’m pretty sure Hitler would have outdone Stalin by a hefty total.
January 28th, 2012 on 7:52 pm
@Jc40k1 Saying the Russians are as bad as hitler is an insane stretch. In Nazi Germany, the people participated in the idea of purging the Jews and their own ethnic superiority in agreement with Hitler. In the case of the Soviet Union, most of the deaths there were the direct result of a psychotic and paranoid leader (Stalin). The Russians as a people responded to the Nazis with a resolve and fortitude that can be described as nothing less than heroic. Stalin not so much. At all.
January 28th, 2012 on 8:06 pm
@Vladislaussy I’m guessing you’re another ignorant American imbecile since your first response to someone saying something good about Russia is to call them a communist. Before you get swept up in nationalist stupidity and McCarthyism, you may want to take into consideration the deliberate infection of the populations of other countries with ailments by the United States to observe the effects. Without that country’s permission by the way.
January 28th, 2012 on 8:13 pm
@resacadiaria the begining was the nazi invasion of ussr turn on ur annotations
January 28th, 2012 on 8:35 pm
@MrNobody1111100 The russians were just as bad if not worse than hitler, hitler killed less people than stalin did. Does the word Katyn ring any bells?
January 28th, 2012 on 8:49 pm
@Vladislaussy U mad bro?
January 28th, 2012 on 9:01 pm
@Vladislaussy U mad?
January 28th, 2012 on 9:19 pm
I love the art direction in the posters and artwork, how the majority of it, the focus is to the left, or the west, which is the front they were attacked on in WW2. Very cool
January 28th, 2012 on 10:05 pm
Good photos and pictures.
January 28th, 2012 on 10:59 pm
@MrNobody1111100 fuck u fucking communist