И Ленин такой молодой (Lenin is Young Again) -- Orchestral/Instrumental Cover

And the Battle Is Going Again (И вновь продолжается бой) also known as And Lenin Is Young Again (И Ленин такой молодой) is a Soviet patriotic song released in 1974 about the October Revolution and Vladimir Lenin. Subscribe: Twitter: It was composed by Aleksandra Pakhmutova to lyrics written by her husband Nikolai Dobronravov, with the most known performance of the song being done by Soviet singers Leonid Smetannikov, Joseph Kobzon, and Lev Leshchenko. The song was composed for the closing of the 17th congress of the Komsomol, but shortly after it was performed there it lost state sponsorship due to a ruling of the Soviet censors that it was too heavily influenced by rock music. The song regained sponsorship a year later, after which it became popular. The song was also performed by Lev Leshchenko at the finals of Pesnya goda (Песня года) in 1975.