And "Katyusha" - fire!

Russia will have a new anthem - for special cases

Special cases of Russian sports, as you know, organized the World Anti -Doping Agency, Richard McLaren, Grigory Rodchenkov and other enemies of our homeland. And in December, the sports arbitration court in December for two years deprived Russian athletes of the right to represent his country. He could deprive for four years, as Wada demanded, but there was.

This time the anger of the public was sluggish - maybe because it could be worse, or maybe because there is nothing to be done. It remains to decide how and what the level of patriotism necessary to achieve high results will be maintained. After all, they left the evil athletes without a flag, without paraphernalia and, most importantly, without a anthem, whose new words Russians have unsuccessfully trying to learn for two decades. It would seem that the author of all anthem and variations Sergey Mikhalkov did not change anything significant, and the words are not given, and that’s it.

But the court’s decision left a loophole - if you want, you can replace the existing anthem with a different composition. What - decide for yourself, only not the current and the previous hymns, because even "God, keep the king!" It can give a hint that a team of neutral, for example, players protects the honor of Russia. And the rest is spacious for fantasy and creativity. You propose - the International Olympic Committee is considering.

Here is a commission of athletes at the Russian Olympic Committee and gathered to discuss and develop a proposal, which should first enter the OKR Executive Committee, and then to the international instance. I would give it dearly to listen to everything that happened at the meeting, but only the echoes reached the public. The chairman of the commission, the famous fencer Sofya the Great, said the following: “We came to a consensus that the well -known“ Katyusha ”could become such a composition. Which, by the way, is performed by fans in the stands, supporting our teams. The song, in our opinion, is very patriotic, dynamic and recognizable. Most of the members of the commission voted for this option. ”

They lived did not pursue both the anthem, and without it, as in Pyeongchang-2018, and now we will not bother Matvey Blanger to the verses of Mikhail Isakovsky with Katyusha. The way the fans and Russian tourists sing her, I heard directly and repeatedly that they did not add patriotic feelings: they did not know words, the melody was godlessly lying. But the “Kalinka” is even worse for the people, the “road long” requires the appropriate state of the soul, and the “evenings near Moscow” were slightly forgotten. Meanwhile, these are the most famous Russian songs in the world - in any case, it was considered so long.

In vain, of course, they did not trust to pre-discuss the most important topic (the anthem, after all, not huhra-mukhra!) To the people-they would have received a lot of proposals. However, already after the decision of the commission, options flew - from “a wide country of my native” to “Vladimir Central”, from “Farewell to the Slavs” to “We will not catch up with us!”, From “Get up, Russian people!” To Murki, from "Heroes of Sports" to Valenok. But this is not the name of the airports to discuss, here the issue is serious, but there is no time.

We did not have time to solve the problem before the World Ball Championship, so our guys in Egypt had to listen to the anthem of the International Handball Federation with the national team of Belarus, and they tied. True, if apple trees and pears bloomed from the speakers, it is still unknown how it would end. Maybe they would not have played a draw.

The song is not to blame for the fact that it was not lyrical, but military-patriotic in recent years before the impossibility.

How gloomily commented on the choice of colleagues, the chief critic of the Russian biathlon, three -time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov, “What“ Katyusha ”can we talk about? This is a song of victory. And they need to sing funeral. " Or anti -doping, if you recall what a two -year -old ban was originally caused. If an offensive-patriotic composition is needed, then it is quite suitable for "not beer destroys, destroy people WAD A. " If there is a need for excuses and patriotic, then it’s better to “blame me”-not to find. Someone offered as a medicine for all the troubles a “glass of vodka on the table”, which would also find a lot of supporters, but no longer correlate with the topic of sports.

In general, you should not think about temporary replacement, but about long -term. One way or another, you will have to change the hymn in one way or another - the tradition is when the red whites replace or, conversely, the white red. And then a very convenient case for discussion turned up.

And it is not a fact that the OKR Executive Committee will approve Katyusha, and the IOC will allow the use of a popular hit as an official replacement for the “unconfigurated” union. So go for it!