Sacred War (Song)

Sacred War also known as Let Noble Rage is the most popular song of World War II written in Russia. Two days after the outbreak of the war, on June 24, 1941, the lyrics of the song appeared simultaneously in the newspapers Izvestia and Red Star, signed by the Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. Former GRU officer and defector Viktor Suvorov claims that the order to write the song for the liberation of the German-occupied Europe came from Stalin: "Stalin needed a song about the great war against Germany in 1941. And Stalin ordered such a song."

The song is still routinely performed today at patriotic events in Russia, and Russian audiences, old and young, stand for its performance. With lyrics such as "rotten fascist vermin scum of humanity," Youtube has deemed it "inappropriate or offensive for some audiences."^[1]

Lyrics[edit]

The huge country is rising

Is rising for the deathly battle

Against the dark fascist force

Against their cursed hordes

Refrain:

Let our noble wrath

Seethe like waves

The national war is going

The Sacred War

We'll resist the oppressors

Of right ideas

Rapists, bandits

People's tormentors

Refrain:

Let our noble wrath

Seethe like waves

The national war is going

The Sacred War

Don't their black wings dare

Fly over our Motherland

Don't the enemy dare tread

Our immense fields

Refrain:

Let our noble wrath

Seethe like waves

The national war is going

The Sacred War

Let us put a bullet into the brow

Of the rotten fascist vermin

Let us make a strong coffin

For such breed

Refrain:

Let our noble wrath

Seethe like waves

The national war is going

The Sacred War^[2]

References[edit]

External link[edit]

• The Sacred War, Elena Vaenga (Елена Ваенга) English sub
• The Sacred War (Dedicated to the War in Ukraine)