{"id":105,"date":"2017-10-19T11:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/podcasti\/?post_type=episode&#038;p=105"},"modified":"2023-06-03T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T12:34:46","slug":"march-of-the-soviet-tankmen","status":"publish","type":"episode","link":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/episode\/march-of-the-soviet-tankmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 6: March of the Soviet Tankmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March of the Soviet Tankmen (Russian: \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0448 \u0441\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0442\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0432, Marsh Sovetskikh Tankistov) is a military march composed in 1939 by the Pokrass brothers with lyrics by Laskin. It was commonly used as a Soviet propaganda song in World War II. The origin of the song was the movie &#8220;Tractorists&#8221; (1939).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe armor is hard and our tanks are fast<br \/>\nAnd our men are full of courage<br \/>\nThe Soviet tankmen are ready for action\u2014<br \/>\nSons of their Great Motherland.\n<\/p>\n<p><ins>Refrain:<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\n    Thundering with fire, glinting with steel,<br \/>\n    The tanks will begin a harsh campaign<br \/>\n    When we&#8217;re called to battle by Comrade Stalin<br \/>\n    And the First Marshal will lead us in this battle!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn keeping our country, we guard<br \/>\nThe work of factories and farms<br \/>\nBy power of our gun turrets<br \/>\nBy our fastness and pressure of fire.\n<\/p>\n<p><ins>[Refrain]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\nLet&#8217;s enemy, who hidden in ambush, remember<br \/>\nWe watch for him, we are on guard.<br \/>\nWe want not a foot of foreign land,<br \/>\nBut we will not give up an inch of our own land.\n<\/p>\n<p><ins>[Refrain]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>\nBut if the enemy attacks us,<br \/>\nWe will beat him everywhere,<br \/>\nTank drivers will start engines<br \/>\nAnd drive-by forests, mountains and even on water.\n<\/p>\n<p><ins>[Refrain]<\/ins>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March of the Soviet Tankmen is a military march composed in 1939 by the Pokrass brothers with lyrics by Laskin. It was commonly used as a Soviet propaganda song in World War II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,13],"class_list":["post-105","episode","type-episode","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episodes","tag-history","tag-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/episode"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/episode\/105\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liviucerchez.com\/castpod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}