Smooglianka, Moldovanka

Along with three fellow students in the American University of Central Asia Russian Language Program I sang the classic Soviet war film song, "Smooglianka Moldovanka" during Russian Langague Week in the main hall at AUCA in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The song is about falling in love with an olive-skinned Moldavian girl (Smooglianka Moldovanka) who ends up fighting with the Moldavian partisan resistance against the Nazis. Everybody in the former Soviet Union knows this tune; It's like "Old McDonald" in the States.
I'm standing on the far left of the stage, right under the portraits of Lenin and Marx on the wall of the auditorium. They would have been proud of us singing this song in the former headquarters of the Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic. Though we only had two practices as a whole group, we brought the house down with this well known show tune. Well, enjoy my brief career in a Russian men's choir.