VA - Vaterland des Glücks - Lieder und Märsche der Sowjetunion

June 22 marks the 80th anniversary of the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Although the initial offensive caught the Soviets completely by surprise, penetrating hundreds of miles into Soviet territory and netting hundreds of thousands of prisoners, the advance eventually stalled in the face of Soviet resistance and the onset of “General Winter.”

Commemorating the upcoming 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, German President Steinmeier said the suffering of the former Soviet people should be "burned into Germany's collective memory."
"Nobody during this war mourned more victims than the people of the former Soviet Union," Steinmeier said, adding that the German war against the Soviets was carried out with "murderous barbarism."
"It weighs on us that our fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers who waged this war, were involved in these crimes," he added.

The June 22 invasion date was more than a month later than German planners had intended, as Italian misfortunes in Greece and a coup in Yugoslavia had caused a redirection of German forces to the Balkans. By the time Fedor von Bock’s army had reached the suburbs of Moscow, winter had set in. Army Group North under Wilhelm von Leeb had settled into a protracted siege of Leningrad, and German troops along the line of advance found themselves ill-equipped to battle both the elements and a group of increasingly competent Soviet commanders. Although Germany continued to press the attack until disastrous battles at Stalingrad (July 1942–February 1943) and Kursk (July–August 1943), the failure of the initial blitzkrieg to achieve its objectives before the onset of winter had effectively consigned Hitler to the same fate as Napoleon. Moscow was a marsh light that lured each would-be conqueror to his ultimate undoing.

The album "Vaterland des Glücks" features songs and marches of the Soviet Union in original recordings. 


Tracklist:

1. Vaterland des Glücks 
2. Rodina moja 
3. Meinst du, die Russen wollen Krieg 
4. Freundschaft 
5. Immer lebe die Sonne 
6. Sing, Soldat sing 
7. Partisanen vom Amur 
8. Präsentiermarsch der Sowjetarmee 
9. Brüder zur Sonne zur Freiheit 
10. Im Walde an der Front 
11. Marsch der Sowjetarmee 
12. Unser Regimentsorchester 
13. Marsch der Gardisten 
14. Kalinka 
15. Russischer Tanz 
16. Die Silberbirke 
17. Der Wasserträger 
18. Grotesker Marsch

VA - Vaterland des Glücks - Lieder und Märsche der Sowjetunion

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