Have You ever heard of “Buchenwald alarm”? Lyrics, her music is so poignant that I can not leave indifferent any thinking and feeling person. Even the most hard-hearted of people cry, listening to the piece written on the day of the opening of the Buchenwald memorial to the victims of the war. Music and lyrics accurately convey the hum of a memorial bell, showing terrible images of Nazi atrocities and the images of tortured or burned alive people. Few people know that this song became a cultural monument to the victims of fascism, in fact, is also a monument to the party of obscurantism. Lyrics to the song “Buchenwald alarm” written soldier Alexander Sobolev, but even many people still do not know.
“Buchenwald alarm”. Story
In the Summer of 1958 in Buchenwald was open tower. Bell installed on top of it, its roar was constantly reminded of the innocent dead prisoners of Buchenwald. Hearing this news, Sobolev, who worked as in a low-circulation newspaper, wrote a poem that began with the line: “the people of the world, stand up for a minute!” Chopped lines, vivid images touched the hearts of all who heard this poem. After some time, the simple poet has carried his work in the newspaper «Truth». But… there's not even began to read it. There were two reasons. First - Sobolev-partisanship. The second his nationality. Alexander was a Jew. Reading, editor crossed out the verses and threw them to the author. But the former soldier was astonishing perseverance. He went through the war, so the indignation of the party bureaucrat did not frighten him. A few days Sobolev took “Buchenwald alarm” newspaper “Work”. This edition was published and the creativity of party members, so new poems accepted. And restless Sobolev went even further: he sent a text to the famous composer Vano Muradeli. Shocked simple, but the emotional strings the poet quickly put the poems to music. Working on a song, he was crying. Thus was born the song “Buchenwald alarm”. But birth does not mean life. All the same bureaucrats of the Communist party, head of the all-Union radio, felt that poetry is not poetry at all, but sheer obscurantism. “Buchenwald alarm” was rejected. However, the author of the words went with a new song in the Komsomol Central Committee. There just needed a repertoire for the choir students going to world youth festival. In Vienna “Buchenwald alarm”, performed for the first time, forced the cry of thousands of people. After a few days the song, translated into many languages, sang the whole world. But the Russian song is not reached. It was long considered impractical for all the same reasons: non-partisanship and the nationality of the author. Only after the documentary film “Spring wind over Vienna” the song of the beginning of the triumphal procession by Russia. But … not once during her performance was not mentioned by the author of the poems. Many people still believe that the product is fully owned by Vano Muradeli. Naturally, no fee, amounting to hundreds of thousands, no copyright Alexander Sobolev has not received. He lived in the barracks, worked at the plant. About his role in the creation of the song “Buchenwald alarm” to the public it became known only a few years ago.
But neither in encyclopedias nor in Wikipedia nor in other directories the name Sobolev is not so far.
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