Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 7 hours ago

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This is a video introduction used for London After Midnight concerts starting in 2005 and leading up to the release of the London After Midnight CD "Violent Acts of Beauty". Text and video by Sean Brennan.
Song used with permission. Song written by A. Aleksandrov and V. Lebedev-Kumach about the Soviet Union defending itself against the Nazis in WWII.

Lyrics:
Get up, the giant country
Get up, for mortal fight
With the dark fascist force
With the damned horde

Chorus:
Let noble fury
Boil up in a wave
There is a people’s war
There is a holy war

Like two opposed poles
We are enemies about everything
We fight for light and peace
Whereas they fight for darkness

Chorus

We shall stand fast against the oppressors
With all our ardent ideas
Against the rapers, the robbers
The torturers of the people

Chorus

We will not let the darkened wings
Fly over Motherland
The enemy dare not trample
Her spacious fields

Chorus

The rotten putrid fascist vermin
We will put a bullet in their forehead
To the dregs of the planet Earth
We will hammer out a mighty coffin

Chorus

Let us fight with all our might
With all our heart, all our mind
For our sweet land
For our great Union

Chorus