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European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [612]
Close enough, the song was written in 1917, and those were difficult times. this song has been sung during school assemblies for the last hundred years. And not highschools either.
All armies of the world have had such songs in their repertoire and used them effectively for propaganda reasons in times of wars to attract recruits.
So this Polish song about a nice war isn`t unique.
It might look strange that it is still sung, even by kids. The reason is simple - Poles and Polesses need to still take advantage of such songs to keep prepared for the Russian threat.
Austrians could have given them up decades ago, coz nobody is going to attack them and they know about it. While we mustn`t give them up due to obvious reasons.