Soviet anthem pwns them all.
Well the Russian anthem is the Soviet anthem with new words.
A great factoid about the Soviet/Russian anthem is that the same guy has written the words for it three times! First he did it w/ a co-author for Stalin (in fact, Stalin edited it himself, apparently). It had in it the glorious gems of the sort: "Stalin brought us up to be true to the people ...", and the like, so under Khruschev they abolished the lyrics and for a few years it could not be sung. Then, under Brezhnev the words were "ammended" by the original author (the above-mentioned ofending line became "for the righteous deal he arose the peoples" - "he" in this context became "Lenin").
Then, of course, post break-up the entire thing had to be scrapped (even the first line of the original became an ironic self-parody: "The unbreakable union of free republics was built forever by the great Russia..."). Under Yeltsin they adopted new music (something from Russian classics) and announced a competition to write the words - but never did. When Putin came he restored the music and called up on the original author to write the lyrics for the third time. Unfortunately, the old guy is quite senile now, so the monstrosity he wrote had to be heavily edited by a committee. The resultant hodgepodge of randomly put together (with little regard to Russian grammar) patriotic exclamations still bears the name of its ancient author. I find it quite impossible to memorize, though: it simply makes no sense whatsoever.
