Word: registan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to refurbish the old anthem with some new words. Commissioned to do the job were the two original authors, who had been paid 100,000 rubles ($19,000) when they composed the lyrics in 1943. They were two-time Stalin Prize-winning Poet Sergei Mikhalkov and Harold El-Registan, a pop songwriter best known for his operetta Only Love...
...hands at following the vagaries of the party line, Mikhalkov and El-Registan had little trouble in composing a deft change in the banned stanza about Stalin. The new last lines...
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