Video: How the Soviet song "Katyusha" became the main melody of the Italian Resistance Movement
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This famous Soviet song is popular and familiar all over the world. It was written back in 1938 by Matvey Blanter and Mikhail Isakovsky, and its first performers were Vsevolod Tyutyunnik, Georgy Vinogradov and Vera Krasovitskaya. During the Great Patriotic War, it received a new sound due to the fact that the students of one of the Moscow schools saw off soldiers leaving for the front with this song. In 1943, the melody became a symbol of the Italian Resistance.
The song "Katyusha" is still known and loved all over the world. It is impossible to imagine Victory Day throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union without the performance of this touching composition. However, the song to the music of Matthew Blanter is also sung with no less enthusiasm in Italy, where it is considered a symbol of Italian resistance.
The words to the Italian version of "Katyusha" were written by a young doctor, a member of the resistance Felice Cachone. He was born in 1918 in Porto Maurizio into a modest Italian family, where his mother was a primary school teacher, and the foundry father passed away just a few months after the birth of his son. In 1936, Felice Cachone entered the medical institute in Genoa, as his mother wanted. Already in his student years, he was known for his anti-fascist views, which was the reason for Cachone's transfer to the University of Bologna, where he received a medical degree as a result.
He began his medical practice in 1942 and very quickly gained a reputation as a person who is not indifferent to other people's pain. When Germany began to control part of Italy in 1943, Felice Cachone immediately joined the Resistance Movement and led a partisan detachment.
The detachment operated in Liguria, and at the end of 1943 in the detachment led by Felice Cachone, there was a soldier who fought in the Soviet Union. It was Giacomo Sibyl, nicknamed "Ivan", who sang the famous "Katyusha" for the first time for his comrades. And the commander of the partisan detachment immediately wrote his own text to a well-known melody. It is worth saying that by that time the Italian partisans did not have such a song that could inspire people to feats. And in a matter of days “Fischia il vento” became it.
It was first aired on Christmas Day 1943 and quickly became popular with the Italian partisans, gaining the unofficial status of a symbol of the Resistance. After the Liberation, "Fischia il vento" began to be called the official anthem of the Italian partisan division "Garibaldi", despite the fact that sympathy for the Soviet Union was clearly heard in the text:
The wind whistles, the storm is raging, our shoes are broken, but we must go forward to conquer the Red Spring, where the sun of the future rises.
Every street is home to a rebel, every woman sighs for him, the stars guide him through the night, strengthen his heart and his hand as they strike.
If a cruel death overtakes us, a harsh revenge will come from the Partisan, the fate of the vile traitor-fascist will surely be harsh.
The wind dies down and the storm dies down, the proud partisan returns home, waving his red flag in the wind, victorious, finally we are free.
On January 27, 1944, the author of the words “Fischia il vento”, Felice Cachone, was killed. According to some sources, he was shot during the battle, according to others, the Nazis captured Cachone and immediately shot him. But the words written by a doctor, poet and member of the Resistance are known and sung to this day.
In 2003, the film by Italian director Marco Bellocchio "Hello, Night" was released, which is set in 1978. There, at the wedding, veterans of the partisan movement touchingly perform "Fischia il vento". However, this song sounds not only in the movies. She is in Italy almost the same symbol of victory as in Russia "Katyusha".
Another Soviet song became one of the most beloved in Finland, where it is still one of the best-selling songs. In the spring of 2020, the composition gained a new sound after the Oulu police posted a video titled "Love life - a new day will come!"
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