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War tunes that had no boundaries

War tunes that had no boundaries

by Talking Humanities | Feb 5, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law

Martin Plaut, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, explains why Soviet troops sang Boer War tunes while fighting Nazi forces. ‘The night is overthrown. The sun is rising. Forward, the Red Navy, forward, Soviet youth!’ The words are pure...

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