WHAT KIND OF NATIONAL ANTHEM SHOULD RUSSIA HAVE?
Margarita Kamenskaya, 69, pensioner I don’t see any other choices than the “Hymn of the Soviet Union.” I know the words should be changed because there are no socialist republics in Russia and I don’t see any union in our country. It needs to have new lyrics in tune with the time, but the music should live forever. The greater part of my life passed under the aegis of this hymn. It was broadcast twice a day and the entire country woke up and went to sleep listening to it. We liked to sing it. It symbolized our history, our lives and our fate. Anton Vlasov, 18, student It’s better to write new music and new words for a Russian anthem, and it should be modern and democratic. I know there are a lot of choices, but they’re all relics of the past. For example, The “Hymn of the Soviet Union” can’t be adopted because there isn’t any union now. I like the music of “God Save the Tsar,” but there aren’t tsars in Russia. … The only way is to write something new. The music of Glinka’s
Margarita Kamenskaya, 69, pensioner I don’t see any other choices than the “Hymn of the Soviet Union.” I know the words should be changed because there are no socialist republics in Russia and I don’t see any union in our country. It needs to have new lyrics in tune with the time, but the music should live forever. The greater part of my life passed under the aegis of this hymn. It was broadcast twice a day and the entire country woke up and went to sleep listening to it. We liked to sing it. It symbolized our history, our lives and our fate. Anton Vlasov, 18, student It’s better to write new music and new words for a Russian anthem, and it should be modern and democratic. I know there are a lot of choices, but they’re all relics of the past. For example, The “Hymn of the Soviet Union” can’t be adopted because there isn’t any union now. I like the music of “God Save the Tsar,” but there aren’t tsars in Russia. … The only way is to write something new. The music of Glinka’s “Patriotic
