Okla-homey
5/1/2008, 07:25 AM
It's May Day!
(The Soviet Army Chorus sings The Internationale in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow at the height of the Cold War)
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/4417/lllredoq8.jpg
Play this in the background to set the mood as you ponder the below images and notice how all your big time communists are heroically depicted with their right arms raised:
http://www.hymn.ru/temporary_url_20070929kldcg/internationale-ru.ram
The Internationale (English translation)
originally written in the 19th century, in its stanzas you'll find all the "progressive" (which is modern code for "communist") chestnuts...you know, class warfare, CHANGE, share the wealth, "it takes a village," throw open the prison doors, tax the rich more than the workers, god is a myth, no justice-no peace, etc., etc.,
Stand up, wretched of the earth
Stand up, galley slaves of hunger
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end
Of the past let us wipe the slate clean
Masses, slaves, arise, arise
The world is about to change its foundation
We are nothing, let us be all
(refrain)
This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race
There are no supreme saviours
Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune.
Producers, let us save ourselves
Decree the common welfare
That the thief return his plunder,
That the spirit be pulled from its prison
Let us fan the forge ourselves
Strike the iron while it is hot
(refrain)
This is the final struggle
Let us stand together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race :|
The state represses and the law cheats
The tax bleeds the unfortunate
No duty is imposed on the rich
'Rights of the poor' is a hollow phrase
Enough languishing in custody
Equality wants other laws:
No rights without obligations, it says,
And as well, no obligations without rights
(refrain)
This is the final struggle
Let us stand together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5624/llln22273yv7.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4645/lllmay120lgei2.jpg
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/1378/0512070416120506uj2.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8383/90097473vw9.png
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3989/36496825fa6.png
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7067/f2b412vn6.jpg
(The Soviet Army Chorus sings The Internationale in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow at the height of the Cold War)
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/4417/lllredoq8.jpg
Play this in the background to set the mood as you ponder the below images and notice how all your big time communists are heroically depicted with their right arms raised:
http://www.hymn.ru/temporary_url_20070929kldcg/internationale-ru.ram
The Internationale (English translation)
originally written in the 19th century, in its stanzas you'll find all the "progressive" (which is modern code for "communist") chestnuts...you know, class warfare, CHANGE, share the wealth, "it takes a village," throw open the prison doors, tax the rich more than the workers, god is a myth, no justice-no peace, etc., etc.,
Stand up, wretched of the earth
Stand up, galley slaves of hunger
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end
Of the past let us wipe the slate clean
Masses, slaves, arise, arise
The world is about to change its foundation
We are nothing, let us be all
(refrain)
This is the final struggle
Let us gather together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race
There are no supreme saviours
Neither God, nor Caesar, nor tribune.
Producers, let us save ourselves
Decree the common welfare
That the thief return his plunder,
That the spirit be pulled from its prison
Let us fan the forge ourselves
Strike the iron while it is hot
(refrain)
This is the final struggle
Let us stand together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race :|
The state represses and the law cheats
The tax bleeds the unfortunate
No duty is imposed on the rich
'Rights of the poor' is a hollow phrase
Enough languishing in custody
Equality wants other laws:
No rights without obligations, it says,
And as well, no obligations without rights
(refrain)
This is the final struggle
Let us stand together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5624/llln22273yv7.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/4645/lllmay120lgei2.jpg
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/1378/0512070416120506uj2.jpg
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/8383/90097473vw9.png
http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/3989/36496825fa6.png
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/7067/f2b412vn6.jpg