Apple trees and pear trees were blooming

[lapsedmodernist]

С Днём Победы!

I tried to find my favorite WWII song that I had to sing in Soviet Choir as a girl (Майский Вальс / May Waltz), but couldn't. So here is another favorite for May 9th.

Comments

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

To victory!

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

We have that song in French ! I can't remember the words but I remember singing it when I was little with my grandma.
Thanks for this !

[dcart.livejournal.com]

Soviet Choir?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I use an online transliterator, rather than translator:
http://www.translit.ru/
it's pretty much phonetic, so you type the letters in English, and for the most part they correspond to Russian letters (so, a is a, n is n, etc.) For the letters that don't exist in English, there is a legend at the top, saying which key corresponds to each letter. You can enter letters by clicking the little squares in the legend, too, but mostly you just type like you would if you wanted to write russian words in English letters.

I do have a Russian keyboard option, but I don't really know the Russian keyboard layout, so that takes me forever. The translit site is much easier.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

all the little pioneers had to sing in the choir.

[dcart.livejournal.com]

I think I just realized that I know not much at all about your background. :)

The coincidence of that and my post from earlier today is kind of funny, then.

[mashuta.livejournal.com]

vyhodiiila na bereg katyushaaa.... aaaagh! thanks for getting THAT stuck in my head. with all the inappropriate 7yr-old level of pun-ness inserted [a la jingle bells, batman smells, robin laid an egg]

[teragram22.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know you sang in a Soviet choir! I was a Pioneer, but I never sang in a choir :(