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A Russian has been up to this since the mid-90s, digitizing old Soviet LPs (1930s on up) and putting them on his site (http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/) for free.

It's a very extensive collection, and is worth a look, regardless of what you think about Russia's past or current behavior.

A great site I found a couple of years ago is http://english.sovmusic.ru/ . It's got thousands of mp3s taken from Soviet LPs and such, going back to the 1930s. Really amazing stuff. And it's run by a communist with a real to-each-according-to-his-need point of view, so everything there is free to download.

If you want an idea of the mentality in Russa after the fascists attacked, listen to this:
http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/download.php?fname= saintwar

A great site I found a couple of years ago is http://english.sovmusic.ru/ . It's got thousands of mp3s taken from Soviet LPs and such, going back to the 1930s. Really amazing stuff. And it's run by a communist with a real to-each-according-to-his-need point of view, so everything there is free to download.

If you want an idea of the mentality in Russa after the fascists attacked, listen to this:
http://www.sovmusic.ru/english/download.php?fname= saintwar

REVELATION!!! http://www.sovmusic.ru/mp3/belarmia.mp3

As one poster has already mentioned, sovmusic.ru has some nice examples, including Paul Robeson (Yes, Mr. "Ol' Man River" himself) doing a rendition of the Soviet National Anthem in English translation.

Because I know some German, I enjoy the East German stuff more, but lately East German nostalgia has become a big business among German "Generation X" types and it's harder to find free songs on the net. If you know German at all, there's an album called "Die Partei Hat Immer Recht" ("The Party is always right") which collects the best of the East German propaganda songs. You can buy it from Amazon.de (the German version of Amazon.com)

Here's the music, a old-fashioned socialist worker's hymn Nationalhymne der DDR / Anthem of GDR ("Auferstanden aus Ruinen" / "Resurrected from ruins")

Heh.

I should have been more suspicious of a DDR anthem mp3 with the file name "daywork.mp3"; I just assumed it was a different version than the one I'd previously download. After I posted, I downloaded it, only to be confused by a song that's in German but is certainly not the DDR hymn.

In fact, www.sovmusic.ru incorrectly linked three songs to this "Day Work" song; the real DDR Anthem is here.

I've emailed the site about the mis-linking.

Here's the music, a old-fashioned socialist worker's hymn Nationalhymne der DDR / Anthem of GDR ("Auferstanden aus Ruinen" / "Resurrected from ruins")

Heh.

I should have been more suspicious of a DDR anthem mp3 with the file name "daywork.mp3"; I just assumed it was a different version than the one I'd previously download. After I posted, I downloaded it, only to be confused by a song that's in German but is certainly not the DDR hymn.

In fact, www.sovmusic.ru incorrectly linked three songs to this "Day Work" song; the real DDR Anthem is here.

I've emailed the site about the mis-linking.

Man, since this is Slashdot wouldn't you expect the article be about computer memory when you see 'DDR'...

Not at my age: to me, "DDR" will always be the Deutsche Demokratische Republik, that is, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, Prussian disdain and Hitler's Berlin "transformed" by the New Socialist Man and drab gray concrete apartments named after "Heroes of the Proletariat".

Here's the music, a old-fashioned socialist worker's hymm Nationalhymne der DDR / Anthem of GDR ("Auferstanden aus Ruinen" / "Resurrected from ruins") (get more of your "Socialism before it hit the dustbin of history" groove on here; in all honesty if you can ignore the frozen political prisoners of the ,a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag'>Gulag Archipelago, the music itself is pretty stirring).

And here's the workout, starting with the youth cadre, The Young Pioneers of the Five-Year Balance Beam Plan (learn more about "mass gymnastics under communism", and remember to scroll right-- the pages are literally about 800 X 4000).