{"id":6194,"date":"2012-12-04T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T06:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=6194"},"modified":"2015-10-24T12:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T03:07:19","slug":"will-praise-your-leaderideologycountry-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/12\/04\/will-praise-your-leaderideologycountry-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Will praise your leader\/ideology\/country for food&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v-9TW-MximU\">the original USSR national anthem<\/a> were written by Russian author <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sergey_Mikhalkov\">Sergey Mikhalkov<\/a> in 1943.<\/p>\n<p>In the fifties, Comrad Nikita deemed the original lyrics <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/De-Stalinization\">a little too fixated on Staline&#8217;s awesomeness<\/a> and ordered them changed. &#8220;No problem, never liked the guy in the first place&#8221;, Sergey Mikhalkov presumably chirped, while writing a new Staline-free version in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>By the year 2000, Mother Russia, now a lot less communist but still short on funds to compose a new anthem from scratch, went looking for new lyrics again, preferably without mention of the great Lenin illuminating the path to freedom for the Union. A job that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Anthem_of_Russia\">Sergey Mikhalkov gladly took<\/a>, because really, he never cared for that communism stuff and was just in it for the music.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, when president-for-life Putin finally commissions a new version of the national anthem praising his skills at bear-fighting and bare-chested salmon-fishing, I have a good idea of who will be writing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lyrics to the original USSR national anthem were written by Russian author Sergey Mikhalkov in 1943. In the fifties, Comrad Nikita deemed the original lyrics a little too fixated on Staline&#8217;s awesomeness and ordered them changed. &#8220;No problem, never liked the guy in the first place&#8221;, Sergey Mikhalkov presumably chirped, while writing a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insignificant-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}