denny Ethnic & National book

Polesia czar (The Spell Of Polesie) (Muz. i sł. Jerzy Artur Kostecki), Tango from the year 1927, performed by an uncredited Polish Choir from the USA, in 1950s/60s (?) NOTE: In Polish memory, Polesie - the eastern region of Poland before 1939, located in Volhynia and being a meeting point of four cultures: Polish, Lithuanian, Belorussian and Ukrainian - will remain a lost-forever mysterious country of swamps, marshes, wild forrests and silent people, who led their fishermen's lives in simple wooden villages or in flat bottom swamp boats, in the area near the sources of river Prypeć (in Byelorussian: Prypyat' - a tributary of the River Dnieper, which it joins 80 km above Kiev). Prypeć was navigable for most of its length, and canals built in the XIX/XXth c. by Polish water engineers (eg Ogiński canal) linked it to the Bug, Vistula, and Niemen (Nemunas) rivers, creating a unique inland river-communication system between Baltic ports and the Black Sea. Therefore, during the Second World War that area and its capital in Pińsk, had special strategic importance. In September 1939, as soon as Soviet Army invaded Poland, a well-developed pre-war Polish River Fleet with its River Port of Pińsk and all the professional inland-sailors crew, was annihilated. All inhabitants of Polesie, who declared themselves being Polish, were executed by NKVD, deported into the Archipelago Gulag in USSR or, if by miracle someone happened to survive all this, murdered by the Ukrainian Nationalist ...