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Oh, I guess it isn't really an answer to your question, but when you've got a dictatorship like that, you want lots of patriotic stuff going on all the time. The name of one of the most common songs was 'meadowland'
Forward to arms comrades, across the grassy plains and meadows rising to meet the brutal home invader treading out to save our homeland. strong and united, red banner flying high etc.
and another one, probably earlier
arise ye prisoners of starvation arise ye wretched of the earth
oh, I forget the rest. The actual soldiers probably preferred something less political like Kalyenka (sp?) When I lived in Germany, drunks late at night would sing this one, since the actual _people_ got along okay and shared a lot of words, unlike the evil dictatorships.
Nils K. Hammer
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