Video: "Do the Russians want war?": How did one of the most famous poems by Evgeny Yevtushenko appear
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Several months ago, about a hundred Russian-speaking residents of the Canadian city of Toronto took part in a flash mob at the central station, during which they sang the famous Soviet song "Do the Russians Want Wars?" To make the message of the action clear to the residents and guests of Toronto who do not speak Russian, the participants of the action held in their hands posters with the translation of the words of the song into English. The author of the words of this song is the poet of the sixties Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
These wonderful lines, which became known all over the world, were written by Evgeny Yevtushenko in the fall of 1961. The poet himself recalled: “I was young then, but I had already visited both Western Europe and the USA. And everywhere they asked me: do the Russian want wars? Here, he answered with a poem. Came to Moscow, showed it to composer Eduard Kolmanovsky. Well, the song was born …"
For the first time the song "Do the Russians Want War" sounded on the eve of the XXII Congress of the CPSU, in 1961. A year later, the discs with the song in English, French, German and Spanish were presented to the delegates of the International Congress for General Disarmament and Peace, which was held in Moscow.
It is worth saying that this song was not accepted everywhere with a bang. When in 1967 the Red Banner named after A. V. Aleksandrov toured Europe twice, the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army, before its performance at the Albert Hall in London, the British side demanded to exclude this song from the program. In Great Britain it was regarded as "an act of interference in the internal affairs of the country." But the Red Army men resolutely protested and achieved the lifting of the ban.
The song in different years was in the repertoire of such famous performers as Mark Bernes, Georg Ots, Muslim Magomayev and Joseph Kobzon.
One more thing poem by Evgeny Yevtushenko - about the complexities of relationships.
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