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Deep through the taiga,
sixty below,
Cut down the timber,
fight through the snow.

Chorus:

BAM! We plan to build it so very strong.
BAM! We plan to build it with a song.
BAM! Come on, and everybody sing along.
...

BAM! The rails shall all be laid.
BAM! The towns are here to stay.
BAM! It's the future of our day.
...

BAM! Far as the eye can see.
BAM! Built for you and me.
BAM! People can be free!
...

Building a railroad
"Baikal Magistral".
Building a future
Come on, sing it loud!

Chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xveYUMXBfVI

What if the "construction project of the century"--the Baikal-Amur Mainline--had never been built? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikal%E2%80%93Amur_Mainline Well, for one thing we would lack this song by the "Red Elvis" Dean Reed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Reed but what would be the other consequences? If the money had been spent more wisely elsewhere (I know, a dubious assumption when you're talking about the Brezhnev-era Soviet Union) could it even have prolonged the life of the USSR?
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