23.02.2020, Moscow.
The Sacred War song encourages Russians to stand up as if an official hymn plays, First Deputy Chief of the Synodal department for Church’s relations with society and mass media of the Moscow Patriarchate Alexander Chipkov said on February 23 during an interview to RIA Novosti.
According to Chipkov, this military song brings a man into a state that can be compared to catharsis. The Russian people can not listen it while seated, they stand up if as an official hymn plays.
Chipkov explained that it happens because the Victory (in the Great Patriotic War – Rossa Primavera News Agency) and the independence of Russia lay the foundations of the Russian civil religion.
The Sacred War song was published in newspapers in the first days of the Great Patriotic War. The author of words — Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach, the composer – Alexander Vasilievich Alexandrov.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
