re: Those Were the Days- Mary Hopkin

This is a cover of the original Russian version, "Dorogoi Dlinnoyu", from the 1920s:
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From Wikipedia:

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On Christmas 1975, the President of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macías Nguema, had 150 alleged coup plotters executed in the national stadium while a band played "Those Were the Days"

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