Прекрасное Далёко | Wondrous Future | Soviet Futurist Song | Советская Песня

History The song Прекрасное Далёко (rom."Pryekrasnoye Dalyoko") was written by Soviet composer Yevgeny Krylatov and poet Yuriy Entin in 1984. It released during the early years of Mikhail Gorbachev's rule, during his policy of "Glasnost", where he significantly increased freedoms of press and expression in the USSR. It speaks about a rapidly approaching bright future, one of the main ideological foundational beliefs of the country. After the collapse of the Union in 1991, it was viewed with a more melancholic tone - a wondrous future that could have been, but was destroyed and replaced with a cruel one, a view resonated with by the composer Krylatov. SOURCES Music and lyrics by Yevgeny Krylatov and Yuriy Entin. Footage from Roskosmos. Translation by myself :D! #history #sovietunion #sovietmusic #sowjetunion #песни #ссср #udssr #russia #cosmonaut #yurigagarin #roscosmos #space #astronaut #future #ukraine #belarus #latvia #lithuania #estonia #moldova #kazakhstan #tajikistan #kyrgyzstan #turkmenistan #uzbekistan