Красное знамя (Red Flag) with lyrics

Красное знамя is a song with a long history; the first version of the song, entitled Le Drapeau Rouge, was written in 1871 in the Paris Commune by Paul-Marie Brousseau. A second version with altered lyrics was translated from French into Polish, and then from Polish into Russian in 1897. The version played here was written in 1900 by an unknown translator using the same melody as the earlier versions. While the song was very popular in the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, it gradually faded from memory