What is behind this brief and at the same time unusually capacious phrase - "Victory Songs"?
Very, very much: four years of incredible tension of physical and mental forces, lying in the ruins of the city, millions of dead, prisoners and trapped in enemy captivity.
However, it was the song that really raised the morale and helped not only to survive, but to live. Contrary to the saying "when the guns speak, the muses are silent," the muses were not at all silent.
What are we without memory?
Back in 1943, at the height of the war, when her scales swayed one way or the other, front-line correspondent Pavel Shubin wrote the lyrics of the song, called "Volkhovskaya table". There are many exact geographical indications of settlements: Tikhvin, Sinyavin, Mga. It is known how fierce the battles near Leningrad were, how the besieged city itself stood to death. Over time, from the song, for ideological reasons, in the spirit of the struggle against the "personality cult", which NS Khrushchev resolutely led, the mention of "the leader of nations" went away ("let's drink to the Motherland, drink to Stalin, drink and pour again!") and only the main thing remains: grateful memory, loyalty to memories, desire to see and meet more often.
"And Russia is the best!"
When the territory of the Soviet Union was already completely cleared of German troops and the war moved to Eastern Europe, a fervent, optimistic song appeared. "Under the stars of the Balkans". The first performer was then popular Vladimir Nechaev, then Leonid Utyosov sang this beautiful thing. In it is the foreboding of a future Victory, in the near coming of which very few people doubted; it is real, not “leavened” patriotism. The song is still popular to this day. She can be heard by Oleg Pogudin, Evgeny Dyatlov, Vika Tsyganova.
How is your geography?
In the performance of Leonid Utesov, another merry, dribbling song became famous, according to which one can even in a certain sense study the geography of the last months of the Great Patriotic War: Orel, Bryansk, Minsk, Brest, Lublin, Warsaw, Berlin. These references are arranged in the sequence, as the Soviet Army liberated all these cities:
Is not a woman's business?
With the main Victory Song, which came to light only on the thirtieth anniversary of the event itself, a very interesting and somewhat curious story came out. At first, the strict censorship committee did not accept it and was even inclined to “not let go.” In any case, performed by co-author and first wife of composer DFTukhmanov - Tatiana Sashko from April 1975. Although the performance was more than worthy, especially female.
Only when the song entered the repertoire of L. Leschenko, then "shot" and sounded to the whole country. Since then, it is habitually perceived as the hymn of Victory:
Do not forget!
Another great march song - "What, say, your name is" - sounds in the movie "Front in the rear of the enemy" (1981). One time after writing, she even competed in popularity with Tukhmanovsky Victory Day. However, as noted above, thanks to the performance of L. Leschenko, the second song nevertheless supplanted the first one. Although Leshchenko himself performed the one and the other, and Edward Gil did not spoil the performance of a single song. Pity that "What, say, your name is" today rarely sounds and was therefore forgotten.
"There is a peaceful forward ..."
As you can see, not so many songs date back to the war and even the first post-war years. There is nothing surprising in this - it took much more time to feel the scale of the losses suffered by the country, so that their pain could be reflected in the music and the word. By the songs of Victory can rightly be counted the final song from the cult Soviet film "Officers". The name of the performer - Vladimir Zlatoustovsky - says little to even the connoisseurs of song art. By the way, he is not so much a singer as a director. According to his script, several seasons of the television series "The Return of Mukhtar" were staged. And the song has long lived, as if by itself:
The memory of the war years powerfully invaded peaceful everyday life. For example, in the final shots of the film by director Peter Todorovsky (by the way, the former front-line soldier) “Along the main street with the orchestra”, when the student construction team is walking along the street, and Oleg Borisov (another former front-line soldier) sings the song to the guitar "And yet we won". And let the execution is not professional, it is extremely sincere, as they say, "to break":
The author - Pavel Malofeev
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