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2. The whole point of the song, according to Stewart.....
Tue Jul 1, 2025, 12:07 AM
Jul 1

...is to point out how people took so little notice of the massacre/purge that happened on the Night of Long Knives. The song is on his album "Past, Present, and Future"; several of the songs on the album talk about historical stuff. "Road to Moscow" tells the story of WW2 on the Russian Front from the perspective of a Red Army foot soldier who serves loyally for the duration, but gets shipped to the gulag because he was suspected of collusion with Nazis.

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