March of the Soviet Tankmen

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The "March of the Soviet Tankmen" (Russian: Марш советских танкистов, romanized: Marsh sovetskikh tankistov) is a 1939 Soviet military march song composed by the Pokrass brothers and with lyrics by Boris Savelyevich Laskin [ru] (Борис Савельевич Ласкин),[1] whose debut was in the 1939 movie Tractor Drivers,[2] in which the role of Klim Yarko is played by Nikolai Kryuchkov.[3] Later the song was used in World War II short titled "Fascist Jackboots Shall Not Trample Our Motherland" by Ivanov-Vano (1941).[4] Valery Dunaevsky commented that the song "was full of fighting spirit" in his book A Daughter of the "Enemy of the People" (2015).[5]

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