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Song about the Motherland, or My Spacious Homeland
(Shiroka strana moia rodnaia)
Music by I. Dunaevskii, Words by Vasili Lebedev-Kumach
Chorus:
Spacious is my homeland
It has many forests, fields and rivers
I do not know another country
Where a person can breathe so freely!
From Moscow to very ocean
From the southern mountains to the northern seas
A person goes like he is the master
Of this unembraceable homeland of his
In every way his life is free and broad
Indeed the teeming Volga flows.
Everywhere our youth are considered dear
And everywhere our elderly are respected
Chorus (repeat)
At the table no one of us is denied
Everyone deserves service
With golden letters we write
The Stalinist law of all nationalities!
These words are great and glorious
No amount of years can erase them:
A person always has the right
To study, to rest and to work!
Chorus (repeat)
Over the country the spring wind blows
With each day with live more happily
And no one on the earth has the right
To deny us the ability to laugh and love!
But firmly we enter battle
If the enemy wants to destroy us.
We love our motherland like a bride
And we defend her like a gentle mother
Chorus (repeat)
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Translation: P. Michaels