lapsedmodernist | (no subject)

Through the aid of google I finally found an mp3 of the Russian children's version of "Bella Ciao"--there was a Russian adaptation that was more or less faithful to the original, but the children's version changed the refrain to "Mama Ciao" and was all about forest camps, sunlight, flowers and love for one's country and not so much about dying partisans and flowers growing on the graves.

Here it is, if anyone is curious, of if anyone, like me, learned it in the Soviet school choir in the 1980s, and wants to hear it again:

http://ars-r.narod.ru/audio/cd2006/08/15.mp3

Also I want to just say that in the course of looking for this I stumbled onto a website of soviet songs, arranged in the following categories:

Songs about the Motherland
Songs about Labor
The International
Revolutionary Songs
Songs about Che Guevara
Songs about Cities
Songs about the Sea
Sports Songs
Komsomol Songs
Young Pioneer Songs
Songs about Leaders
Military Marches
Military Lyrical

...

other representatives from the "songs I learned to sing in Soviet Choir and are thus now lodged in my brain forever" collection:
http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/3tankist.mp3
http://download.sovmusic.ru/m/belarmia.mp3