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Gramophone record "Meet us Suomi the Beauty"
© Andrew Heninen
Gramophone record "Meet us Suomi the Beauty"

Meet us, Suomi-Beauty (MP3, 2Mb)

Song by Daniel and Dmitry Pokrass, lyrics by Anatoly D'Actil (Frenkel), August 1939
Leningrad military district's "Red Army Song and Dance" ensemble conducted by A.Anisimov
Gramophone disks factory, Leningrad

See text.

The song main idea is that The Red Army is entering Finland to liberate it from capitalists that supressed Finnish revolution and now are fooling Finnish people.

Thanks Vitaly Brousnikin. Visit his "Collection of gramophone records".

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