The size is continental 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover, published by The Soviet Artist Publishing House, Moscow, circulation unknown. The artist's name, A. Kurkin, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of Kurkin's lithograph illustrating the lyrics of a famous Russian revolutionary song. The lyrics of the song, by Leonid Radin, are printed on the verso.

In excellent condition, showing only negligibly small corner bumps.

The history of this song is a great illustration of the fascinating phenomenon: use of the same melodies

The size is continental 6" x 4", unmailable without a cover, published by The Soviet Artist Publishing House, Moscow, circulation unknown. The artist's name, A. Kurkin, is printed in the lower left-hand corner on the verso. The artwork is an offset print of Kurkin's lithograph illustrating the lyrics of a famous Russian revolutionary song. The lyrics of the song, by Leonid Radin, are printed on the verso.

In excellent condition, showing only negligibly small corner bumps.

The history of this song is a great illustration of the fascinating phenomenon: use of the same melodies in the Soviet and Nazi German propaganda. The officially recognized author of the song is Leonid Radin (1860 - 1900), a Russian poet, inventor and revolutionary. In 1898, he adapted the melody of the old, early-Napoleonic era, Prussian student song "Slowly Moving Time," a slow waltz, making it an enthusiastic march and writing the lyrics that made it the marching hymn of the Bolshevik revolution. In 1917, Herman Scherhen, the famous German conductor, created the German communist version of the song, "Bruder, zur Sonne, zur Freiheit" ("Brothers, for the Sun, for Freedom"). In 1920s, Hitler's brownshirts re-made it into "Bruder in Zechen und Gruben" ("Brothers in Mines and Pits"). The song completed the circle in DDR where its Communist version of the lyrics was used again.
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