#(although it should be also mentioned that a version with modified lyrics - omitting any mention of warsaw - /was/
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Ha, I found it! This is Paul Robeson singing a Polish communist revolutionary anthem.
#the video description & the accompanying slideshow are... well. rather misleading (and obviously biased).#it was written in 1879 & so it had nothing to do with the actual bolshevik revolution#(apart from its obvious anti-tsarist sentiments that is);#it is - however - firmly rooted in the polish socialist tradition! which is fascinating in its own right#& doesn't merely serve as a footnote in the history of the russian revolution.#(although it should be also mentioned that a version with modified lyrics - omitting any mention of warsaw - /was/#indeed to become somewhat popular in the ussr in the 1930s.)
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