Serce w plecaku (A Heart In A Back-Pack) piosenka partyzancka (Polish Resistance song) -- Jan Ciżyński & Ork. Braci Pindrass (Pindrass Brothers' Orchestra), Melodje 1946 (Polish)
NOTE: The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 (1 Aug -- 3 Oct 1944) was the most tragic struggle for freedom in the whole of Polish history. The 63 --day fights in the ruined streets of Warsaw, to liberate the city from the German occupation -- but also, to prevent the taking over of Poland by the approaching Stalin's Red Army -- was undertaken by the Home Army (Armia Krajowa, AK), the Polish resistance movement, the largest Resistance organisation in Europe during the Second World War. Unfortunately, the promises of Radio Moscow from the months preceeding the outbreak of the struggle - that "Friendly to Poland, Red Army will help Poles, as soon as they start their fight for freedom"- appeared to be merely, one more Stalin's insidious provocation. The help was never given to fighting Poles, and while the Allied troops were breaking through the Normandy defenses on the West, the Red Army was standing at the line of the Vistula River, waiting at the Vistula's other bank and watching at the slow death of the Polish capital city - in flames, despair and horrors of the German cruelty against so the Warsaw uprisers as the tens of thousands of civilians. Warsaw could have been one of the first European capitals liberated; however, the double-faced game played with Poland during the 2nd WW by Winston Churchill as well as tragic blindness and political indolence of American president Franklin Roosevelt -- turning both of them into two grotesque puppets in hands of Joseph Stalin -- turned the dice against Warsaw.
This clip -- which I'm uploading on the eve of the 1st of August -- the Anniversary Day of the outburst of the Uprising - is dedicated to all those who fought for their freedom in the Warsaw Uprising as well as all those who, as civilians, perished in the effort. Every year, the 1st of August evokes in every Polish heart the proud memory of the heroic struggle of the Polish young people for the highest human values -- but also, it inevitably calls back the betrayal of Poland by her Western Allies, who in the end of War broke all agreements that had been earlier signed by their governments with Poland, and left Polish nation to its either physical death in prisons and camps or to a slow degradation of a 1000-years Latin civilisation in the hands of Stalin and his followers. The results of it are still felt and visible in today's life of our post-communist nation -- impoverished, deprived of larger part of its historic substance and territory, as well as of almost 100 per cent of its old elites.
This side is the first post-war recording of one of the most popular Home Army's (Armia Krajowa) partisan songs of the 2nd World War. In a light, slightly rakish kind of a language it tells a story about a girl's loving heart, that flew out from her chest after the marching partisans. And one of them caught it, put it into his ba\ck-pack and marched on. Suddenly, in the end -- the careless marching song changes into a solemn and tragically echoing coda: a few lines of the beautiful old Polish hymn: "Hey, who has Polish heart, get a bayonet in his hand!".
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