Ewan MacColl - The Ballad of Stalin - 1951 Topic Records

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  • @OldClassicGamer
    @OldClassicGamer ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Finally, it has been preserved online!

  • @mikusjay
    @mikusjay ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Beautiful!

    • @LasArmas_
      @LasArmas_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

      eh brother

  • @RichtofenRules
    @RichtofenRules ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I thank you from the bottom of my heart for uploading this, I’ve been searching for a recording for almost 5 years now.

    • @McHobotheBobo
      @McHobotheBobo หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had thought for a time it didn't exist, bourgeoisie are scared even of Stalin's ghost lol

  • @georgepittas7680
    @georgepittas7680 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Thanks for uploading this treasure. ❤

  • @rifatsyed9220
    @rifatsyed9220 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Joe Stalin was a mighty man, a mighty man was he,
    He led the Soviet people on the road to victory.
    All through the revolution he fought at Lenin's side,
    And they made a combination till the day that Lenin died.
    He said, "Come all you people, we will work with brain and hand."
    And then one day the Nazis came into the Soviet land,
    They plundered to the Volga, to Stalingrad, and then
    Joe Stalin said, Come on, me boys!" and he kicked them out again.
    Joe Stalin was a southerner, in Georgia he was born
    Where the oranges grow thick and fast and fields of waving corn;
    And Joe he was a farmer, his fingers they were green
    And he has planted the biggest crop the world has ever seen.
    One day he looked upon his map and frowned and shook his head,
    "There's too much brown and not enough green," these are the words he said;
    "We'll have to change the weather, boys," he said and then he smiled,
    "So let's begin by planting trees along three thousand miles."
    Joe Stalin rolled his sleeves up and he said, "Come on, let's start!
    The Volga river and the Don they are too far apart.
    I think we'd better join them, so come and help me, pal,
    And we'll build a mighty waterway, the Volga-Don Canal."
    One day he went into the North and there saw rivers three
    All emptying their waters into the Polar Sea;
    "Now that's not right," Joe Stalin said, "these rivers they are ours,
    We'll turn 'em 'round and make 'em work to give electric power."
    There was a range of mountains that was standing in the way
    So Stalin put his hand out and he smoothed them all away;
    For Joe he was determined to make the land all green
    And that's the biggest project that the world has ever seen.
    Joe Stalin was a mighty man and he made a mighty plan;
    He harnessed nature to the plough to work for the good of man;
    He's hammered out the future, the forgeman he has been
    And he's made the workers' state the best the world has ever seen.

  • @leopoldomonteil8669
    @leopoldomonteil8669 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Great! Long live comrade Stalin!

  • @Diamat1917
    @Diamat1917 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Red Salute Comrades 🚩

  • @blueduncan9522
    @blueduncan9522 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Stalin was a mighty man indeed 😍

    • @David-yw2lv
      @David-yw2lv หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mighty vicious,mighty cruel,mighty sadistic,mighty evil

  • @samdiggity509
    @samdiggity509 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Long live comrade Stalin, and long live the USSR!

  • @RevolutionaryBrewer
    @RevolutionaryBrewer ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So cool - politics aside its amazing the different things on vinyl

  • @oldescole
    @oldescole ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This one is from 1951, not sure why the description says 1956

    • @tonysmith4602
      @tonysmith4602  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes, you're right. Thanks for spotting the error. I'll correct it in the description.

  • @leopoldomonteil8669
    @leopoldomonteil8669 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Stalin, the eternal comrade.

  • @Tristyn_Waterman
    @Tristyn_Waterman ปีที่แล้ว +14

    СЛАВА

  • @TuurVanderheyden
    @TuurVanderheyden 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    how much for that?

  • @robertnewell5057
    @robertnewell5057 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It says Al Jeffrey plays guitar on this, but I think it sounds like banjo. Al DID play guitar but was much better know as a banjo player.

  • @guickdotto4552
    @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Musicians, artists, writers,
    Workers, soldiers; they all died
    All victims of the Man of Steel's
    Infernal bloody pride.

    • @Coldtea25
      @Coldtea25 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      So why was the ussr a time of great art and music?

    • @BaronKommunard1917
      @BaronKommunard1917 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Tell me did Stalin kill Maxim Gorky, Dimitri Soshtakovich, Alexander Vasylyevitch , Boris Iofan, Boris Sokolov? All those names come from Authors, Musicians, Architect and Scientists did they die under Stalin: No, they where greatly seen as peoples of the working class. Under Stalin there where universities too for all sorts of studies going to Agronomy to Engineering.So now I want to ask why would you say that?

    • @guickdotto4552
      @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BaronKommunard1917 Have a look at this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Great_Purge_victims

    • @DabbertjeDouwe
      @DabbertjeDouwe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BaronKommunard1917Probably only if you adhered to state ideology. Any deviants would have been purged.
      Also, is Katyń a joke to you? Like the Germans, the Russians were very keen on destroying Poland, and, like the Germans, they sought to achieve this by destroying its intelligentsia.

    • @makhnothecossack4948
      @makhnothecossack4948 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@BaronKommunard1917Though Shostakovich was persecuted by Zhdanov because apparently "his music was too western" and he was rehabilitated only during Khrushchev.

  • @JohnSmith-wolandworld
    @JohnSmith-wolandworld 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I will never apologize for authoritarianism or mass killings but do jokingly like the idea of fictional version of Stalin as a Paul bunion like character except he is a real man and Paul isn't so thats' the rub; still Paul represents colonialism, so sure why not. edit: I also like his mustache and the ritheim of the song is good.

  • @guickdotto4552
    @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He rubbed out his opponents
    Or sent them far away
    To freeze or die in gulags
    In cold Siberiay

    • @guickdotto4552
      @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chasewilliams5128 mate... it's not a good song. Manchester Rambler is a good song. The Crooked Cross is a good song.

    • @BaronKommunard1917
      @BaronKommunard1917 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      ​@@guickdotto4552It's not a good song because you can't enjoy songs that uncomfort you. Also good Stalin to get rid of the oppenants of the working class like Trotsky ( Let's not forget Trotsky collaborated directly with nazi Germany in the 30's and Imperial Japanese when Manchuria was at war.)

    • @georgeavery5965
      @georgeavery5965 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Siberiay"
      Bro stop trying to write lyrics. Just give up

    • @guickdotto4552
      @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@georgeavery5965 What I have written, I have written.

    • @lovrevia7638
      @lovrevia7638 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Forgot the Molotov von Ribbentrop pact?​@@BaronKommunard1917

  • @guickdotto4552
    @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He annexed half of Poland
    Slew their leaders in Katyn
    Sent his lads to die in a Winter War
    Took Karelia from the Finns

    • @jakejerrison5181
      @jakejerrison5181 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Found the Neo-Nazi.

    • @terrancewood9322
      @terrancewood9322 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That "half of Poland" was Western Belorussia and Ukraine
      The nazis committed the Katyn massacre
      The winter war was self-defense the Fins refused to sign a peace treaty and collaborated with the nazis

    • @muha0644
      @muha0644 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      -He saved half of Poland from Nazis, when the allies refused to follow through on the mutual agreement they signed earlier to invade Hitler in case he annexed Czechoslovakia.
      -Katyn is literally Nazi propaganda.
      -The Nazis invaded the USSR, was he supposed to just do nothing? People fought the Nazis even while occupied by the Nazis, research the Belarusian partisans.
      -Finns were way too friendly with Hitler, and they literally bordered Leningrad. Any competent leader can see that, and would do the same. Every leader, regardless of ideology, would secure some borderlands on a potentially hostile state.

    • @guickdotto4552
      @guickdotto4552 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@muha0644 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? No? Was this a cunning ruse by the mighty man of the people designed to liberate Poland?

    • @muha0644
      @muha0644 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@guickdotto4552 not that I blame you, for not knowing, but even a small historical analysis can show you how wrong that is. The Molotov Ribbentrop pact was not an opportunistic deal to gain more territory, the USSR had more than enough already. It was a culmination of the struggle for national security, for a defense from Hitler.
      They had already made dozens of attempts at containing Hitler, and at every time the "allies" chickened out, citing the "economic consequences" and other bullshit. Most notably was the pact where they agreed to invade mutually Nazi Germany if they annexed Czechoslovakia. France decided not to follow through on the agreement they signed.
      The "allies" had literally left Stalin with no choice. Either he signed it or he risked invasion. In reality, it only bought them a little bit of time to prepare for the war, and they still had massive logistical issues (despite the Red Army being superior in equipment and amount at the time to the Wehrmacht, they could not get equipment to the front, so they retreated because they could not fight)

  • @everTriumph
    @everTriumph ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And so good that Putin continues the great work! What did happen to the Aral Sea? And wasn't Stalin a pal of Hitler at one time?

    • @samdiggity509
      @samdiggity509 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      1. Putin is a capitalist, he will tell you that. He effs over the workers just to put money in the rich monopoly capitalists pockets
      2. As if capitalist countries haven't created environmental disaster after disaster. And also, the destruction of the Aral Sea happened primarily after Stalin's time. The earliest concerns about its condition were dated in the 70s at the earliest. Hard to blame Stalin for an environmental disaster that happened after he was dead.
      3. Stalin was no pal of Hitler. Stalin's policy was to get peace for his people, and liberate the Ukrainian and Belarusian workers in territory that Poland had recently invaded and taken from the USSR. He signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler. This was the same policy held by France and Britain, who continued appeasement until Germany invaded Poland, even doing nothing when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, a country they had promised to protect. Poland had invaded the USSR before, and taken lands from Ukraine and Belarus. The Molotov Ribbentrov Pact was signed saying that if Hitler invaded Poland, he would not be allowed to take the parts of it that Poland had taken from the Ukrainians and Belorussians. Then, as soon as the USSR got the chance after Hitler invaded, they invaded the parts of Poland that Poland had stolen from the USSR less than 20 years before.

    • @rust9542
      @rust9542 ปีที่แล้ว

      You are actually brainwashed

    • @SwedishDrunkard5963
      @SwedishDrunkard5963 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      No, Stalin wasnt a friend of hitler, Stalins first move was actualy to try to build a anti nazi pact with the other western power but they said no, so instead he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact to avoid war.
      also putin is not cobtinuing his work, hes doing the opposite in fact.

    • @socire72
      @socire72 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Under Stalin the USSR was the only country to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics.