Vast is my Motherland
The song Широка страна моя родная [Shiroka strana moya rodnaya] or Vast Is My Motherland is a typical, and perhaps the most famous example of how all forms of art and entertainment were used for propaganda purposes in the Soviet Union.
The song was composed by Basil Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (1898-1949) and Isaac Osipovich Dunaevsky (1900-1955) for the film Цирк [Tsirk] or The Circus, made by director Grigory Vasilyevich Aleksandrov (1903-1983), and became extremely popular.
