I heard it sung in the Youth Hostels in Scotland in the mid to late 1950s, or possibly early 1960s. The singers were generally English - not making a point about that other than I don't think it was known in Scotland.

One of of the verses, as I remember, had a line about now being the Commissar or Omsk, or, possibly, Tomsk, and therefore no longer in the business of making bombsk.