Пламя Вьетнама. Записи с поля боя (The Flame of Vietnam: Recordings from the Battlefield)

Annotation

Released in the USSR. Track A1: Пламя Вьетнама. Записи с поля боя ("The Flame of Vietnam: Records From the Battlefield")

Annotation by Justin A. Brummer

Notes

Krugozor was a Soviet monthly magazine with bound-in flexi-discs; this is No. 6 of 1966 (catalogue number 27 = cumulative issue number). Spoken/documentary sound page, not a song. Krugozor 6/1966 sound page 1 is headed "Нагрянет враг — все за оружие!" ("When the enemy comes — everyone to arms!") by Георгий Грамматчиков, correspondent of All-Union Radio; the headline is a Vietnamese proverb quoted by Nguyen Thi Binh in an interview for Moscow radio, printed in the same spread alongside her account of the liberated zones ("10 million inhabitants, four fifths of the country's territory") delivered as a guest at the XXIII CPSU Congress in Moscow in 1966, and the story of Nguyen Thi Ut, mother of six and guerrilla commander. The page carries the photograph of Nguyen Van Troi's last minute before his execution by the "American–Saigon clique" on 15 October 1964 and a photo of NLF…

Themes

Combat · Anti-American · Anti-Imperialism · North Vietnam Patriotic

In collections

European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]