[lbo-talk] Internationale

[Doug Henwood]

Googling on "The Interionale" (I've got a playlist with 14 versions, 
so I was curious to find out its history) brought me to a website 
that claimed that Stalin dropped it as the anthem of the USSR during 
WW2 because the troops wanted to die for Mother Russia, not the 
international working class. Is that true?

Doug