The Eastern Front Music Pack is great and all, but the lyrics of the USSR anthem are anachronistic

[mailzanadloge]

The version sung ingame uses the 1977 official lyrics, replacing:
''Skvoz' grozy siyalo nam solntse svobody,
I Lenin velikiy nam put' ozaril
Nas vyrastil Stalin — na vernost' narodu,
Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil!,''

with

''Skvoz grozy siyalo nam solntse svobody,
I Lenin velikiy nam put' ozaril,
Na pravoye delo on podnyal narody,
Na trud i na podvigi nas vdokhnovil!''

 

[KubiG37]

Can you please translate?

 

[mailzanadloge]

Can you please translate?

Full lyrics and translations for both versions available here:

State Anthem of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[podcat]

Huh, I didnt even know there was a later version of it :O

 

[cotne22]

Can you please translate?

Basically the former praises both Lenin and Stalin, while the other one removes Stalin's name (because of Khruschev's destalinization). If you told someone in Russia to sing the anthem he/she would sing the latter version because it is more engrained in people's minds.
SSRs also had their own anthems from what I remember.

 

[BFKelleher]

Huh, I didnt even know there was a later version of it :O

please send the chorus back to the studio to record the 1944 lyrics this is ruining my immersion.

 

[cotne22]

please send the chorus back to the studio to record the 1944 lyrics this is ruining my immersion.

But won't the 1944 version break your immersion if you go with Trotsky or Bukharin?

 

[Ivankovsky]

But won't the 1944 version break your immersion if you go with Trotsky or Bukharin.

I know this is a little off-topic here but is Bukharin confirmed for the 3rd communist branch?
Also fair point for having the 1977 version, unless Paradox goes ham and creates 3 versions of the anthem for each leader, one can't have enough of this anthem anyway.

 

[cotne22]

I know this is a little off-topic here but is Bukharin confirmed for the 3rd communist branch?
Also fair point for having the 1977 version, unless Paradox goes ham and creates 3 versions of the anthem for each leader, one can't have enough of this anthem anyway.

He isn't, but I'm 90% sure he will be the other major communist choice.

 

[mailzanadloge]

please send the chorus back to the studio to record the 1944 lyrics this is ruining my immersion.

Absolutely.

And make sure the acoustics are the same. Seats need to be filled. Bring in people from the street if you have to.

 

[Dlin369]

It might be better to keep the current version too though, especially for non-Stalin paths come NSB