On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 13:28:06 -0700 (PDT) andie nachgeborenen
<andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes:
> Yes, or amyway, he thought so; the Soviets called the
> war The Great Patriotic War. Then there was the point
> about not offending possible allies like the US and
> Britain. My guess is that the Red Army would have
> fought as well or poorly as it did under any anthem.
> But patriotism was a big motivator. jks
In WW II, Stalin made lots of concessions to old fashion Russian nationalism. That's when he relaxed his restrictions on the churches, particularly the Russian Orthodox, permitting them to reopen many churches.
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> --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> > 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
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