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Life has become better

Music: A. V. Alexandrov

Words: V. Lebedev-Kumach 1936

Performed by: Ensemble directed by A. Alexandrov.

Execution 1936

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Calls like birds, one after another,

Songs fly over the Soviet country.

The melody of cities and fields is merry -

Life has become better, life has become more fun!

Together the country grows and sings,

With the song new happiness is forged.

If you look at the sun, the sun becomes brighter.

Life has become better, life has become more fun!

Everywhere there is space for the mind and for the hands,

You find friends everywhere.

Old age is warmer and youth is bolder.

Life has become better, life has become more fun!

Know, Voroshilov, we are all on alert,

We will not yield an inch of land to the enemy.

Fathers and children have strength.

Life has become better, life has become more fun!

I want the whole vast country

To shout to Stalin “Thank you, dear!”

Live for many years without pain.

Life has become better, life has become more fun!

Calls like birds, one after another,

Songs fly over the Soviet country.

The melody of cities and fields is merry -

Life has become better, life has become more fun!

1936

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Stalin I.V.

Speech at the First All-Union Meeting of Stakhanovites

November 17, 1935

2. The roots of the Stakhanov movement

The basis of the Stakhanov movement was, first of all, a radical improvement in the financial situation of the workers. Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. And when life is fun, work goes smoothly. Hence the high production standards. Hence the heroes and heroines of labor. This is, first of all, the root of the Stakhanov movement. If we had a crisis, if we had unemployment - the scourge of the working class, if our life was bad, unsightly, sad, then we would not have any Stakhanov movement. Our proletarian revolution is the only revolution in the world that had the opportunity to show the people not only its political results, but also its material results. Of all the workers' revolutions, we know of only one that somehow achieved power. This is the Paris Commune. But it didn't last long. It is true that she tried to break the shackles of capitalism, but she did not have time to break them, and even more so did not have time to show the people the good material results of the revolution. Our revolution is the only one that not only broke the shackles of capitalism and gave the people freedom, but also managed to give the people the material conditions for a prosperous life. This is the strength and invincibility of our revolution. Of course, it’s good to drive out the capitalists, drive out the landowners, drive out the Tsar’s guardsmen, take power and gain freedom. This is very good. But, unfortunately, freedom alone is far from enough. If there is not enough bread, not enough butter and fats, not enough textiles, poor housing, then freedom alone will not get you far. It is very difficult, comrades, to live by freedom alone. In order to live well and cheerfully, it is necessary that the benefits of political freedom be complemented by material benefits. A characteristic feature of our revolution is that it gave the people not only freedom, but also material benefits, but also the opportunity for a prosperous and cultural life. This is why life has become fun for us, and this is the soil on which the Stakhanov movement grew.