From Finland to the Black Sea (also Russia Song or The Song of the Campaign in the East or Forward to the East) is a propaganda song written in 1941 on behalf of the German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels for the upcoming war against the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa). However, completion was delayed and it was not broadcast for the first time until a week after the attack began, on June 29, 1941.[The song was played, among other things, during the special reports of the Wehrmacht High Command.