Moscow-Peking
1949 Soviet mass song / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moskva-Peking (Russian: Москва–Пекин), also known as Moscow Beijing, or Russian man and Chinese man are brothers forever (Russian: Русский с китайцем — братья навек…) is a Soviet mass song composed in 1949 by Vano Muradeli to lyrics by Mikhail Vershinin. The song was written to commemorate the foundation of the People's Republic of China as well as to emphasise fraternal and amicable relations by the Soviet Union and the newly Communist Chinese state.[1] Due to the Sino-Soviet Split during the 1960s, the song generally fell out of official favour by the end of the 1960s, and the lyric "Russians and Chinese, brothers forever" became a common ironic joke.[2]