Soviet solders in Berlin | The Sacred War | WW2 in color | Russian war music | Soviet march

"The Sacred War" is a patriotic song of the period of the Great Patriotic War, which became the anthem of the defense of the Motherland. The music of the song combines the formidable tread of the march and the wide melodic chant Two days after the start of the war, on June 24, 1941, simultaneously in the newspapers Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda, the text of the song "Holy War" was published signed by the famous Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate V. I. Lebedev-Kumach. Immediately after the publication, the composer A. V. Alexandrov wrote music for it. There was no time to print words and notes, and Alexandrov wrote them on the blackboard with chalk, and the singers and musicians copied them into their notebooks. Another day was set aside for rehearsal. On June 26, 1941, at the Belorussky railway station, one of the groups of the Red Banner Ensemble of the Red Army Song and Dance of the USSR that had not yet left for the front performed this song for the first time. The Sacred War The huge country is rising Is rising for the deathly battle Against the dark fascist force Against their cursed hordes Let our noble wrath Seethe like waves The national war is going The Sacred War Will resist the oppressors Of right notions (ideas) Rapists, bandits People&tormentors Let our noble wrath Seethe like waves The national war is going The Sacred War Don&their black wings dare Fly over our Motherland Don&the enemy dare tread Our immense fields Let our noble wrath Seethe like waves...