Historical Anthem: Soviet Union - Государственный гимн СССР (1977 Version)

Государственный гимн СССР - Gosudarstvenny Gimn SSSR - State Anthem of the USSR National Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Союз Советских Социалистических Республик - Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik) Written - Sergey Mikhalkov - 1943 & 1977 Music - Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov - 1938 Adopted - 1944 (1977 modified version) Relinquished - 1991 (Anthem of the Soviet Union) The Anthem of the Soviet Union was played for the first time on the Soviet radio at midnight on 1 January 1944. The 1944 lyrics had three different refrains following three different stanzas; in each refrain, the second line was consequently modified with references to friendship, then happiness and finally to glory. Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union’s war against Nazi Germany were originally invoked in the the process of de-Stalinization inaugurated after Stalin’s death, the lyrics which referred to Stalin were considered unacceptable and the anthem was pe