Take-over examples are not uncommon. Listen to the strong, affirming national anthem of the now defunct East Germany("Auferstanden aus Ruinen" {"Arisen from Ruins}"): there's something about the work that rings familiar- even though we've never heard it before. The 'something' is the construction of the anthem: it can be overlayed upon the traditional German "Deutschland ueber Alles" and note for note, tempo for tempo, it fits inside the traditional song, precisely. Was that a foretaste of ultimate national unity? Maybe - but on whose side of the (also now gone) Inner German Border?
"Gimn" is good music, but I think about the millions whose freedom it proscribed while the USSR used it. Spacibo bol'shoye!
Best, Steve Myers in snowy PA.
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