2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25
From many films describing the great feat of the Soviet people, the modern viewer is familiar with the song "Holy War". The melody captures her immediately, from the first notes with its patriotic impulse. It is performed by a mighty choir, it cannot be sung in one voice.
For many years it was believed that the author of the song was the famous Soviet composer Lebedev-Kumach, who composed it literally in one sitting immediately after the start of the war, perhaps even on June 22, 1941. He had a lot of songs, including very good ones. “I don’t know another such country”, “If there is war tomorrow” and other similar works glorified the Soviet-collective-farm system in the first place, but such a majestic anthem to Russian patriotism as “Holy War” was not among them.
The very mention of holiness was sedition in those days. When Nazi Germany attacked, the word began to be used again, especially after Stalin's "brothers and sisters", borrowed from the church seminary vocabulary, but that was later, on July 3.
The mention of the "cursed horde" also evokes associations with something from the "legends of ancient times." The listener involuntarily hasthe impression that these poems were written not by a Stalin Prize winner and a prominent member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, but by a White Guard officer who was not killed by the Bolsheviks, there is too much native Russian in this song. There is not even room left for the Soviet.
Propaganda in the pre-war years emphasized internationalism more than patriotism. It was considered normal to want to leave their native land in order to give land to some unknown peasants from Grenada, without even asking first if they wanted such a gift.
The clue to the unexpected and almost instantaneous transformation of the communist Lebedev-Kumach into a Russian patriot is simple. The fact is that the text does not belong to his pen. "Holy War" was written during the First World War. The true author is Alexander Adolfovich Bode, a gymnasium teacher from Rybinsk. The melody, in fact, was also composed by him.
We must pay tribute to V. V. Lebedev-Kumach: the words of the song "Holy War" have undergone a certain politically sustained correction. "The dark Teutonic force" became fascist. This, of course, is not entirely correct, because fascism is an Italian phenomenon, there was Nazism in Germany. We were attacked not by Mussolini's Blackshirts, but by the Germans. But it just so happened that the members of the NSDAP, that is, the German National Socialist Workers' Party, are called fascists in our country. Doesn't matter.
The text has been hastily changed, apparently done in one night. The song "Holy War" turned out to be most appropriate and was taken from somewhere in the closet ordesk drawer, where it had been gathering dust for four years. The teacher of the old, still royal school sent his work to the venerable songwriter in the hope that he would like it. He, probably, could not even imagine that the work would be appropriated, as an intellectual, assuming a priori decency, characteristic of Russian artists. Alexander Adolfovich Bode made a mistake twice.
Lebedev-Kumach didn't like "Holy War", this conclusion suggests itself based on the fact that the song lay from 1937 to 1941 in the archive of the Soviet poet. True, and the opportunity to bring her into the light of day presented itself only after June 22.
The second error is visible to the naked eye. Assigning someone else's work is a shameful thing, but quite acceptable according to the concepts of many figures of Soviet art. But Alexander Adolfovich considered Vasily Ivanovich a great poet …
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