【CHINESE PLA SONG】Army of Steel (钢铁的部队) w/ ENG lyrics скачать в хорошем качестве

【CHINESE PLA SONG】Army of Steel (钢铁的部队) w/ ENG lyrics

钢铁的部队, Army of Steel, aka Military Anthem of the 38th Group Army. Yeah, sometimes, instead of regurgitating that whole communist propaganda mumble jumble, just give them a damn list of all the bloody battles that you've won...all tuned to the good ol' military march, of course. "A few hundred battles," no big deal, you know, "each worthy of praise." This is what elite sounds like. The PLA 38th Group Army, the "imperial garrison" of the Capital of the People's Republic, is generally regarded as THE best of the PLA. When there's a new experimental weapon, give it to the 38th first; when there's a new reform regimen, use it on the 38th first, and that privilege is certainly earned. Tracing its honourable roots all the way back to the Northern Expedition time, the 38th has fought some of the most gruesome and important battles for the Communist Party: in the Battle of Xiushuihezi, the 38th first implemented Lin Biao's "one point two sides" and "3-3 system" tactics and proved that fluid infantry manoeuvres can indeed defeat substantially better-equipped enemies; in the Four Battles of Siping, it was common for entire companies to be obliterated by KMT artillery in the see-saw battle, and yet the 38th succeeded in securing the first major victory for the CCP; during the Second Phase Campaign of the Korean War, the 38th held their grounds against American attacks so well (even by communist standards) that Peng Dehuai uncharacteristically exclaimed "Long live the People's Volunteer Army! Long live the 38th Army!", and thus giving the 38th the nickname "Long-Lived Army"; even during the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident, Xu Qinxian, commander of the 38th, refused the order to move in Beijing and reportedly said the famous line "I would rather have my head chopped off than becoming a criminal of history." He was sentenced five years for that. Now this song specifically, even if I didn't tell you it's was written and taught to the troops by two musicians on the field in 1948 you would still be able to guess the time period correctly based on the lyrics. From the classic "Following the great Chairman Mao" we know this is from the "pre-Cultural Revolution" period; from phrases like "show their skills in revenge" and "kill enemies by the thousands" we know this was written in a time of war; and finally we know it's from the Liberation War period because the song talks about all the big battles of the Liberation War but mentions nothing of the Korean War. The lyrics tells the story. An interesting little detail is that whoever is in charge have apparently made an "new version" of this song as the official anthem. The new song added some information about the Red Army period and Korean War, but what was worth noting is that all the iconic communist jargons such as "the Working Class march onto battlefield" and violent stuff like "kill enemies by the thousands" are removed from the new song and simply replaced with one lukewarm line of "following the great Communist Party". Huh, guess time has changed. PS. Oh and about the background image, that's actually the badge of the PLA 112 Mechanized Infantry Division of the 38th Group Army. Apparently there's no symbol to represent the 38th as a whole. THIS VIDEO IS SOLELY DEDICATED TO THE ARTISTIC STUDY AND SHARING OF MUSIC INTENTIONALLY HOSTILE POLITICAL BS IS NOT WELCOMED 视频仅供对音乐艺术方面的学习分享 不欢迎任何以引战为目的的政治言论 Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/Ht07/