A New Year song

We never celebrated 'the new year' as anything special at home (that would be the Scots and their Hogmanay...) but the Soviet Union did, complete with decorated trees, coloured lights, snow, and all the otherwise-Christmas trappings... presumably a nice non-religious state-sponsored alternative :-p

And so here is a charming "New Year's Song" performed in the TV studio by Veniamin Smekhov and Evgenia Simonova, from a 1980s broadcast...

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(I gather it was her husband and father-in-law who were responsible for the lyrics and melody respectively :-) ( Translation )