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(24,979 posts)Ha, thanks. I just went and found this on youtube. Quite good. Goes better than the SSB.
Now Mr. European History above, with the comparison of the Russian anthem to the Horst Wessel Lied (!!!), seems to have missed that the latter was a Nazi party song, and was never a national anthem -- unlike the Soviet national anthem which was repurposed into the new Russian anthem.
What's funny is that the Germans today sing the SAME Deutschlandlied that the Nazis also did, as this anthem dates back to the 1848 revolution. They now omit the "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber alles" stanza (which was originally meant as nation above religion or royalty, and acquired its warlike significance under the Nazis).
But it's the same goddamn song! Germans sing the same national anthem as under the Nazis (same lyrics, just without the third stanza), just as Russians sing the same one as under the Soviet Union (different lyrics!).