On the eve of the 80th Anniversary of Victory, the world gratefully remembers the heroic struggle of the Soviet people against Nazism. Music is a universal language that not only unites us and helps us better understand one another but also allows us to feel the pulse of history.
Several musical groups from Zambia, India, Indonesia, China, Tanzania, and South Africa came together to perform the legendary song “The Sacred War” by composer Alexander Alexandrov and poet Vassily Lebedev-Kumach. The lead part was beautifully sung by a young girl named Liza from Russia.
🇷🇺 Elizaveta Dominova
🇮🇳 Delhi Chamber Choir
🇨🇳 Western Returned Scholars Association Choir
🇮🇩 Azmita Putri Sherlian
🇹🇿 Tanzania Philharmonic Society
🇿🇲 Harold Kabeke Mabula
🇿🇦 Thapelo Music Academy
🎧 Listen to the ‘The Sacred War‘ classical rendition
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Arise, vast country,
Arise for a fight to the death!
Against the dark fascist force,
Against the cursed horde!
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people’s war,
A Sacred War!
We shall repulse the oppressors
Of all ardent ideas,
The rapists and the plunderers,
The torturers of people!
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people’s war,
A Sacred War!
The black wings shall not dare
Fly over the Motherland,
On her spacious fields;
The enemy shall not dare tread!
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people’s war,
A Sacred War!
We’ll drive a bullet into the forehead
Of the rotten fascist filth.
For the scum of humanity,
We shall build a solid coffin!
Let noble wrath
Boil over like a wave!
This is the people’s war,
A Sacred War!
1941