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Fischia il vento
Summary
"Fischia il vento" ("The Wind Blows") is an Italian popular song whose text was written in late 1943, at the inception of the Resistenza. The tune is based on the Russian song Katyusha (song). Along with Bella ciao it is one of the most famous songs celebrating the Italian resistance, the anti-fascist movement that fought the forces that occupied Italy during World War II.
The song was broadcast after 8 September 1943 between the high valley of Andorra - Stellanello in Passu du Beu behind the Pizzo d'Evigno and afterwards above Curenna, in the "Casone dei Crovi", in the high Valley of Albenga, where the partisan squad led by Felice Cascione took refuge. During that period there were still no partisan songs; therefore, people sang old communist and socialist songs: L'Internazionale, La guardia rossa, Bandiera rossa or the song of anarchic origin Addio Lugano Bella, transformed into Addio Imperia Bella, Vieni o maggio (o Canzone del maggio), on the melody of "Nabucco".
Giacomo Sibilla, battle name Ivan, survivor of the campaign of Russia, joined the partisan squad led by Felice Cascione, where he was added into the 2nd Regiment Genio Pontieri. In the region of Don, Ivan had known Russian prisoners and women, and from them he learned the song Katjuša. Ivan brought it with him to Italy, and in the Passu du Beu he sketched a few verses together with Vittorio Rubicone, Vittorio il Biondo. Then the commander Cascione intervened. Together with Silvano Alterisio, battle name Vassili, and other comrades the verses written by Felice some time prior were adapted to the Russian melody. Recently the "casone" where u Megu and his comrades began writing the famous song was rediscovered. The composition was terminated in the Casone dei Crovi, a location not too distant from the Monte Peso Grande, occupied by partisans in the beginning of the winter of 1943.
The song was sung for the first time in Curenna, fraction of Vendone, in Christmas 1943, but it was broadcast officially in Alto, in the square in front of the church, the day of Epiphany 1944.
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