A goof for the goof file

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2001)

In the scene where Zaitsev meets Khrushchev, the Soviet National Anthem plays. Unfortunatly this is the wrong anthem! At the time of the Stalingrad siege (1942-43), the national anthem of the USSR was "The Internationale", a left wing song written during the 70-day Paris Commune of 1848. The Bolshevik party adopted this song during the Russian Civil War (1918-21), mainly because Karl Marx had felt that the Paris Commune was the first attempt at communist society, and thus validated this theories, and V. I. Lenin felt that his Bolshevik government was the second coming of the Paris Commune. The song which plays in the scene is the 1944 anthem, which is far more nationalistic, and has recently been re-written and re-adopted as the anthem of the Russian Federation.