TRUTH CRUSHED TO THE EARTH SHALL RISE AGAIN
(Music & Lyrics V. Ghent)

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Twenty million people died in Stalin's great terror

Sideways up and upside down
let me tell you a story 'bout what was found
floating in a river in Siberia
you're not gonna believe this so just hang tough you see
Stalin's people purged the masses
but not like Hitler they didn't use gasses
they buried bodies in a riverbank many years ago

so many years it was a long enough time
to pretend to forget and close your mind
but when the heavy rains came, showed the shame
and reclaimed the soil that covered those souls
the ground was frozen for so long
you could still see the clothes that the people had on
the day they were collected, herded like sheep,
shot in the head and piled in a heap
there they were for the world to see as they tumbled from their misery
alive and kicking to the end
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again

Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again

about those bodies don't be surprised
when they were found with open eyes
workers caught the corpses and sank them down
at the river station one thousand people
only a fragment of twenty million more felled by evil
the Cheka, secret police (NKVD NKVD)
the executions, fake trials,
and those sent to the labor camps in exile
were alive and kicking to the end
but truth crushed to the earth shall rise again

Truth crushed to the earth (byelostomuy)
crushed to the earth shall rise again (Stalinsky)
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again rise again
how many times will we be forgiven
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again

there are no crimes in history more terrible
there are no crimes in history more terrible

Trotsky was one of millions killed as Stalin purged party
and people of opposition to his rule
"Stalin's trial against me is built upon false confession,
extorted by modern pugatorial methods"


don't have to be loud to be strong
don't have to be right to be wrong (Stalinsky)
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again

there are no crimes in history more terrible
there are no crimes in history more terrible
Thousands of bodies of people killed in the great terror have been discovered in a mass grave outside the town...twenty thousand people died in Stalin's great terror...Forty million people were repressed - about half of these were executed...I just fell down on my knees - byelostomuy

So if you're daring to be different where the safe survive
just remember most important is to stay alive
we've got plenty of martyrs, plenty of saints
the best thing you can do is educate
you know it's more than watch your back jack all the time
because there's never no rest for the urban survivalist
adapt or die is the law of the street
that's where you'll find common ground with your enemy
is it really any different from the stone age life
when we fight before we reason 'cuz there's no insight
alive and kicking to the end
truth crushed to the earth shall rise again

we don't need another Stalin
Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again
at the rate that we are goin'

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Truth crushed to the earth shall rise again