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1 ALGERIA We swear by the lightning that destroys, By the streams of generous blood being shed By the bright flags that wave That we are in revolt …

2 BOLIVIA Bolivians, propitious fate has crowned our hopes …

3 BURKINA FASO Against the humiliating bondage of a thousand years Rapacity came from afar to subjugate them For a hundred years. Against the cynical malice in the shape Of neocolonialism and its petty local servants, Many gave in and certain others resisted.

4 GUINEA-BISSAU Sun, sweat, verdure and sea, Centuries of pain and hope; This is the land of our ancestors.

5 LUXEMBOURG Where slow you see the Alzette flow, The Sura play wild pranks …

6 OMAN O Lord, protect for us Our Majesty the Sultan And the people in our land, With honour and peace. May he live long, strong and supported, Glorified by his leadership. For him we shall lay down our lives.

7 PARAGUAY To the peoples of unhappy America, Three centuries under a sceptre oppressed. But one day, with their passion arising, ‘Enough, ’ they said and broke the sceptre.

8 SENEGAL Everyone strum your koras, Strike the balafons, The red lion has roared, The tamer of the bush with one leap, Has scattered the gloom.

9 TAIWAN The three principles of democracy our party does revere.

10 URUGUAY Eastern landsmen, our country or the tomb!

11 USSR Unbreakable union of freeborn republics, Great Russia has welded forever to stand; Thy might was created by the will of our peoples, Now flourish in unity, great Soviet land!