rare audio footage of the USSR anthem from 1944

This is the 1944 version of the USSR anthem before the de-Stalinization era. This version is pretty special because it’s long and contains Stalin words, etc. While the 1953-1991 version or de-Stalinization ussr anthem, Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev decided to remove any sentences that contain Stalin’s word in it and make the anthem a bit shorter
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