He thought that the song was short and, because of the Great Patriotic War, that it needed a statement about the impending defeat of Germany by the Red Army. Īfter selecting the music by Alexandrov for the national anthem, Stalin needed new lyrics.

Da zdravstvuyet nasha derzhava), became a popular patriotic song and was adopted as the anthem of Transnistria. There was also an entry from Boris Alexandrov, the son of Alexander. Later, the rejected joint entry by Khachaturian and Shostakovich became Song of the Red Army, and Khachaturian went on to compose the Anthem of the Armenian SSR. Over 200 entries were submitted for the anthem contest, including some by famous Soviet composers Dmitri Shostakovich, Aram Khachaturian and Iona Tuskiya. This comedy was based on a slogan Stalin first used in 1935. Zhit Stalo Luchshe), a musical comedy that he composed. When writing the Bolshevik party anthem, Alexandrov incorporated pieces from the song 'Life Has Become Better' (Russian: Жить Ста́ло Лу́чше, tr. In response, Alexandrov blamed the problems on Viktor Knushevitsky, who was responsible for orchestrating the entries for the final contest rounds. 'The Internationale' was used as the state anthem of Soviet Russia from 1918, adopted by the newly created Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922, and was used until 1944. Lenin also wanted 'The Internationale' to be played more often because it was more socialist, and could not be confused with the French anthem other persons in the new Soviet government believed 'La Marseillaise' to be too bourgeois. The first major use of the song was at the funeral of victims of the February Revolution in Petrograd. Kots also changed the grammatical tense of the song, to make it more decisive in nature. The lyrics had been written by Eugène Pottier, and Pierre Degeyter had composed the music in 1871 to honor the creation of the Second Socialist International organization in 1902, Arkadij Jakovlevich Kots translated Pottier's lyrics into Russian. After the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government in the 1917 October Revolution, the anthem of international revolutionary socialism, 'L'Internationale' (usually known as 'The Internationale' in English), was adopted as the new anthem.

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