[1] The song made its debut in the 1936 film Circus, starring Lyubov Orlova and Sergei Stolyarov.
The film depicts the story of an American woman who flees from racism in the United States after giving birth to an African-American child.
She comes to the USSR to sing as part of an act in the circus, and soon falls in love with a performance director Ivan Petrovich Martinov.
The melody and chorus of the song appear throughout the film, and both parts of the final stanza are sung at the end where all the characters are seen marching in a May Day parade on Red Square.
In 1939, the opening chorus notes played on vibraphone became the official call sign of Soviet radio.
Припев: Широка страна моя родная, Много в ней лесов, полей и рек!
Я другой такой страны не знаю, Где так вольно дышит человек.
За столом у нас никто не лишний, По заслугам каждый награждён, Золотыми буквами мы пишем Всенародный Сталинский закон.
Припев Pripev: Široka strana moja rodnaja, Mnogo v nej lesov, polej i rek!
Ja drugoj takoj strany ne znaju, Gde tak voljno dyšit čelovek.
Ot Moskvy do samyh do okrain, S južnyh gor do severnyh morej Čelovek prohodit, kak hozjain, Neob’jatnoj Rodinoj svojej.
Za stolom u nas nikto ne lišnij, Po zaslugam každyj nagraždjon, Zolotymi bukvami my pišem Vsenarodnyj Stalinskij zakon.
S každym dnjom vse radostneje žitj, I nikto na svete ne umejet Lučše nas smejatjsja i ljubitj.
From Moscow to the borders, From southern peaks to northern seas, As the master a man stands In his wide Motherland.