And the Battle Is Going Again, also known as And Lenin Is Young Again, is a Soviet patriotic song released in 1974 about the October Revolution and Vladimir Lenin. It was composed by Aleksandra Pakhmutova with lyrics by her husband Nikolai Dobronravov, and its most well‑known performances were by Soviet singers Leonid Smetannikov, Joseph Kobzon, and Lev Leshchenko. The song was written for the closing of the 17th congress of the Komsomol, but after its performance there it was banned by Soviet censors because of its heavy rock influence. It was unbanned a year later, after which it gained popularity, and Lev Leshchenko also performed it at the finals of Pesnya goda in 1975.
