Who Has The Best National Anthem?
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We enjoy, who is more?
"The Russians" need to be united. There are many nations in Russia, different religions. Some nations of Russia are warriors - stubborn people from old times with strict traditions. (Do you remember the wars in Chechnya?..)
If all the nations of Russia would be able to respect each other... it would be not so hard for them to respect all other nations of the world. Russia is the biggest country in the world, with many neighbours.
Many our songs unite us better than our anthem.
this song isn't our official anthem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNY4wNGXur8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUK6EZFfj4&t=1m30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SabJxjhPiM&t=3m12s
I want to show the songs, which unite people
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...ongs-which-unite-people&p=1465160#post1465160
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Fiji should change its National Anthem to that hymn that the rugby players sang at the end of their gold medal match.
That may the single most endearing and emotional Olympic moment I've ever seen.
Beautiful. And I am now a huge fan of rugby sevens.
That may the single most endearing and emotional Olympic moment I've ever seen.
Beautiful. And I am now a huge fan of rugby sevens.
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1. Russian by far. And its rendition by the children choir in Sochi was breathtaking.
2. God Save The Queen
3. Oh Canada
4. La Marseillaise
Adelina and Elena signing their lungs out - priceless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB_yiZ_Fylc
2. God Save The Queen
3. Oh Canada
4. La Marseillaise
Adelina and Elena signing their lungs out - priceless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB_yiZ_Fylc
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Oh, I adore this song! And I knew it in Russian. "Pusty vsegda budiet solntse,,pusty vsegda budiet nyeba, pusty vsegda budiet mama, pusty vsegda budu ya!"
I adore the Russian songs!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D_UepJMizs Moscow nights and my two favorites opera singers!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZjNCXB5r0 Katyusha and the Red Army choir!!!! I love their all songs!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZIFhJ6fyzk - Ochi Chernye - Ivan Rebroff !!
The Russians can sing!!!!!!! No doubt!!!
and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8acq8492xkc ''We are Children of the Sun''
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A little aside. The Marseillaise is one of my favorite national anthems, as I have already mentioned. My mom would sing it to me to get me to drink my bottle of milk when I was a baby, she told me a number of years later. Maybe that explains why I was so eager to learn French? 
I also love the Olympic Hymn. Wish I knew & understood the Greek (?) words to it. Are there English words to it as well?
I also love the Olympic Hymn. Wish I knew & understood the Greek (?) words to it. Are there English words to it as well?
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Sorry but - IMO it's really rude to tell someone who is a native of that country what their anthem really means! If a native Hungarian thinks that their anthem is sad, I will accept their interpretation of it, because it must surely be the most accurate!
I have always enjoyed our anthem, of course. And I like Italy's, too, it's very bouncy and upbeat.
I find that a lot of the European anthems end up sounding the same. Particularly the long military marches, which all sound very funereal.
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We enjoy, who is more?
"The Russians" need to be united. There are many nations in Russia, different religions. Some nations of Russia are warriors - stubborn people from old times with strict traditions. (Do you remember the wars in Chechnya?..)
If all the nations of Russia would be able to respect each other... it would be not so hard for them to respect all other nations of the world. Russia is the biggest country in the world, with many neighbours.
Many our songs unite us better than our anthem.
this song isn't our official anthem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNY4wNGXur8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vUK6EZFfj4&t=1m30s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SabJxjhPiM&t=3m12s
I want to show the songs, which unite people
http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/sh...ongs-which-unite-people&p=1465160#post1465160
Ok, I didn't say that all Russians have the feeling they are the best in the world. I didn't even say Russians are like that. I just said I get this feeling from their national anthem and for the others mentioned. It might do something with the fact that I'm Czech, but I don't want to get deep into this. I have no problem if you like the anthems, I just have a different opinion on them.
It seems to me, that Plushyfan doesn't think, that I was rude.
I believe it is good, if we like ours anthems, if we are able not to be sad.
We should live while we are alive. After all the catastrophes.
Yes, I could read only the English translation (I said, that I speak about the translation).
I don't know, what these words mean for Hungary: "suffering for all sins"...
But I know, that in my country at time of The Second World War many people died in Leningrad without food, and some people started to eat people. Leningrad = St. Petersburg (our "second capital city"!) In the 20th century! We know too much about wars and revolutions... And the German soldiers didn't behave like civilized people, they were not only killing.
I am assured we should be teaching our children to love Germany.
And I believe it is possible to know the history and to love the anthem.
When we sing such words ("suffering for all sins"), we can think: "We survived! We are able to love."
Yes, we still will be sad, yet not only sad. There are feelings, which can be stronger.
I think it is possible, even if the music sounds sad.
Your words don't offend me. I just say, that people of Russia need to be united.
I know pictures by Alfons Muсha.
My father loves a book by Gashek. There is Gashek's street in Moscow.
I know names of Kafka, Neruda and Chapek, though I didn't read them.
To say the truth I didn't remember they were Czech...
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You think our anthem is not sad... that is sad, you believe me. We all think that. Probably you don't know the Hungarian history. We have our tragedies. Hungary is in Central-Europe, we fought for Europe many times..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mY4UI1EDrs - History of Hungary - in 16 Minutes - Way to Europe . If you have time watch it! But the latest, the biggest tragedy happened in Treaty of Trianon 1920.----> look at the video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mY4UI1EDrs&t=10m15s
I believe you. I understand, that you have reasons, that you have your tragedies. I don't say, that our history is worse. I just tried to tell, how it is possible to find feelings, which will be stronger than our memory of all the tragedies. Russia has seen rivers of blood. In the 20th century. And we have reasons to feel shame for our soviet anthem. Many soviet soldiers were cruel not only to the Germans, but to the friendly nations too. It was impossible to control such soldiers. Well, many soldiers were not normal soviet people, many of them were criminals, whom Stalin took from the prisons and sent to the war. And "normal" soldiers also could be nearly mad after everything, what they had seen. I read about a German soldier, who became mad indeed, because he was shooting and shooting, but the Russians were coming and coming, though they didn't have a chance to stay alive...
I just think our anthem is not better than yours.
Yes, we should remember the history, but I believe it is possible to love our anthems, our countries and other countries too.
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I believe you. I understand, that you have reasons, that you have your tragedies. I don't say, that our history is worse. I just tried to tell, how it is possible to find feelings, which will be stronger than our memory of all the tragedies. Russia has seen rivers of blood. In the 20th century. And we have reasons to feel shame for our soviet anthem. Many soviet soldiers were cruel not only to the Germans, but to the friendly nations too. It was impossible to control such soldiers. Well, many soldiers were not normal soviet people, many of them were criminals, whom Stalin took from the prisons and sent to the war. And "normal" soldiers also could be nearly mad after everything, what they had seen. I read about a German soldier, who became mad indeed, because he was shooting and shooting, but the Russians were coming and coming, though they didn't have a chance to stay alive...
I just think our anthem is not better than yours.
Yes, we should remember the history, but I believe it is possible to love our anthems, our countries and other countries too.
You don't forget Hungary was in soviet block
and because I'm not teenager I know your history, I know the soviet history we needed to learn it :yes: I know that era. I admire your heroic war.My favorite anthem is probably Ukraine, the music and the lyrics are very beautiful and hopeful (Ukrainian is also my favorite language).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVvpeKcw1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzHlSLhtmM
But I also really like the anthem of Greece, Island, France (even though I'm not too found of the lyrics...), Italy, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LVvpeKcw1M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzHlSLhtmM
But I also really like the anthem of Greece, Island, France (even though I'm not too found of the lyrics...), Italy, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan.
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You don't forget Hungary was in soviet block
I just wish you not to be sad.
As for the history... well, even the best Russian teachers are not able to tell everything about Russian history. I am sure I never will know everything. I am sorry, I didn't mean, that you didn't know those things. I only mean, that we have many reasons to be sad and even to feel shame.
Many soldiers just had no choice to die or not to die... But yes, sometimes nobody was making people fight, nobody could shoot them in the back, and they were still fighting... Maybe I can't admire. Nothing beautiful. A song by Ancharov is important for me. He wrote the second variant of the song, because he needed to make people understand, that he spoke not about wounds, but about madness. He came back from the war and he felt, that the doctors never would help him and other mad people, who were soldiers. Ancharov remained a normal good man, and he was strong. We respect those people, we are grateful... but I think I can't admire.
(I understand, what you wanted to say. Thank you.)
I wish you not to be sad.
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(I understand, what you wanted to say. Thank you.)
I wish you not to be sad.
Thanks. We are not too sad in general. But we love to be sad if we are talking about our history thus our anthem is sad, too....
This would be a better anthem for many Hungarian people. This is a rock opera about my first king: Stephen, the king
"In 1983, in the latest years of the communist regime, a recent play was put on in Budapest's greatest park. The music (Levente Szörényi) and the writing (János Bródy) has been over the years a little part of the hungarian nation's sense. There is a song for freedom, song about, what the freedom is, what can be a route of fate of a thousand-years old land and his nation with God and with ourselves alone.
The rock opera was based on true historical events. In 997, the hungarian grand prince, Stephen defeated Koppány, the leader of the transdanubian pagan rebels. Stephen was the founder of the hungarian state, one of the apostles of christianity and the builder of christian european culture in Hungary." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OOubj4UAX4 with english subtitle
Probably you won't like it because this is so Hungarian.
Koppány's song. He was a pagan "prince" he was Stephen's biggest enemy, he didn't want to be christian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OOubj4UAX4&t=56m
His shaman, Torda's song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OOubj4UAX4&t=58m1s :cool2:
Stephen's (István) song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OOubj4UAX4&t=1h24m25s
Tomorrow, 20. August: Feast of St. Stephen the state founder king! Our state is more than 1000 years old. We will celebrate!!!
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I would like to add some more about the late great Roger Doucet-
Roger learned and sung ALL the national anthems for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. He released an record album of all the anthems, Songs of Glory.
https://www.amazon.ca/Songs-Glory-Roger-Doucet/dp/5558065362
He also wrote the new words to the Soviet anthem
http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com/2010/04/how-roger-doucet-wrote-soviet-national.html
Roger learned and sung ALL the national anthems for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. He released an record album of all the anthems, Songs of Glory.
https://www.amazon.ca/Songs-Glory-Roger-Doucet/dp/5558065362
He also wrote the new words to the Soviet anthem
http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com/2010/04/how-roger-doucet-wrote-soviet-national.html
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