Music video description
I continue today to add patriotic songs and the next song I would like to present to you on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Poland's regaining independence is a beautiful piosenka Czerwonych Gitar. In 1969, at the 7th National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, the band won the award of the Minister of Culture and Art for this song, of course, this is the song "White Cross". The words to this song were written by Janusz Kondratowicz, while the music was written by the then leader of the band Krzysztof Klencz. By the way, it is worth mentioning that Mr. Krzysztof Klenczon with this very song wanted to honor the memory of his father, a soldier in the Home Army and a participant in the Polish anti-communist underground in the post-war period. When the artist was three years old it was his father Czeslaw Klenczon who was arrested by the UB. After this event Mr. Czeslaw had to go into hiding and he returned to his family and children in 1956. After returning home, he really wanted to make up for the lost time and the time of separation, which is why he locked himself in a room with his son Krzysztof Klenczon to tell him about himself and what he encountered during the time of separation. On the other hand, the author Janusz Kondratowicz was inspired to write the text by a birch cross without a plaque he came across in a forest in Zakopane. In those days it was a very characteristic sight in Polish forests. Most often these were the graves of killed partisans, very often they were nameless. The text itself is just about such nameless graves and the memory of those who died in battle and fighting. A very important point is that in the lyrics of the song does not say a word about the organizational affiliation of the fallen thanks to which there were no problems with censorship. His performance of this song also had for example Stan Borys or Artur Gadowski. I invite you to the song "White Cross".