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"March of the Soviet Tankmen" | |
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Song by Peter Kirichek | |
Composer(s) | Pokrass brothers |
Lyricist(s) | Boris Laskin |
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"March of the Soviet Tankmen" on YouTube |
The "March of the Soviet Tankmen" (Russian: Марш советских танкистов) is a 1939 Soviet military march song composed by the Pokrass brothers and with lyrics by Boris Savelyevich Laskin (Борис Савельевич Ласкин),[1] whose debut was in the 1939 movie Tractor Drivers,[2] in which the role of Klim Yarko is played by Nikolai Kryuchkov.[3] Later the song was used in World War II short titled "Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland" by Ivanov-Vano (1941).[4] Valery Dunaevsky commented that the song "was full of fighting spirit" in his book A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People" (2015).[5]