Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach. (№ 439012)

Quote Explanation: Two days after the start of the war, on June 24, 1941, simultaneously in the newspapers Izvestia and Krasnaya Zvezda, the text of the song "Holy War" was published signed by the famous Soviet poet and Stalinist laureate V. I. Lebedev-Kumach. On June 26, 1941, at the Belorussky railway station, one of the groups of the Red Banner Ensemble of the Red Army Song and Dance of the USSR that had not yet left for the front performed this song for the first time.