"Uz Maršala Tita" ("With Marshal Tito") is a Yugoslav Partisan anthem praising Josip Broz Tito, the country's liberation movement leader during World War II. The original Serbo-Croatian lyrics written by Vladimir Nazor and the music was composed by Oskar Danon.[1]
"Uz Maršala Tita" | |
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Song | |
Language | |
English title | "With Marshal Tito" |
Written | Vladimir Nazor |
Published | 1943 |
Genre | Revolutionary song |
Composer(s) | Oskar Danon |
During the Independent State of Croatia, part of the Ustasha ideology was minimizing the Slavic origin of Croats, purporting that Croats are descendants of the Goths.[2] The middle stanza of this song addresses that by outright refutation of the Gothic theory and by reaffirming the Slavic origins of all South Slavs.
Written in 1943, when relations between Josip Broz Tito and the Soviet leadership were at the time close, the first verse of the song's original version read "Uz Tita i Staljina, dva junačka sina" ("With Tito and Stalin, two heroic sons"). According to the song's composer Oskar Danon, people spontaneously rechristened this verse as "Uz maršala Tita, junačkoga sina" ("With Marshal Tito, the heroic son") at its first hearing in 1943 at the second session of AVNOJ in Jajce,[1][3] at which Tito was awarded the title of Marshal of Yugoslavia.[4] This version was firmly adopted as official after the Tito–Stalin split in 1948. It has been translated into all official languages of SFR Yugoslavia, as well as Slovak (So Súdruhom Titom).[5]
Lyrics
editOriginal text
editSerbo-Croatian (Latin script) | Serbian Cyrillic alphabet | Literal translation |
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Uz maršala Tita, junačkoga sina |
Уз маршала Тита, јуначкога сина |
With Marshal Tito, the heroic son |
In other languages
editSlovenian[6] | Macedonian[7] | Slovak[8] | Russian[9] |
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Z maršalom Titom, junaškim sinom |
Со маршалот Тито, херојскиот син |
So súdruhom Titom, Hrdinským synom |
Нам с маршалом Тито, земли нашей сыном, |
Unofficial English version
edit- With great Marshal Tito, our land's bravest hero,
- We'll be even stronger than Hell!
- 𝄆 We raise our heads bravely, and not hung down gravely,
- And clench our fists hard as well. 𝄇
- We're from an ancient tribe, but Goths we don't ascribe,
- As we're children of ancient Slavs.
- 𝄆 He who says otherwise merely slanders and lies,
- And surely will face our wrath. 𝄇
Other performances
editIn the late 1970s, not long before Josip Broz Tito's death, he visited North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union.[11] Upon his arrival in North Korea, the DPRK Ceremonial Choir performed "Uz Maršala Tita" in Serbo-Croatian to honour the Yugoslav president.[12][13]
References
edit- ^ a b "Novosti: Kako su nastajale partizanske pesme". Mondo.rs. 14 December 2008. Archived from the original on 3 September 2012. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ Jareb, Mario (2008). "Da li su Hrvati postali Goti? Odnos ustaša i vlasti Nezavisne Države Hrvatske prema neslavenskim teorijama o podrijetlu Hrvata". Časopis za suvremenu povijest. 40 (3): 869–882.
- ^ Danon, Oskar (16 February 2009). "Jugoslavija je moja jedina domovina". e-Novine (Interview) (in Serbo-Croatian). Interviewed by Nikčević, Tamara. Archived from the original on 22 February 2009. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ Danon, Oskar (28 February 2008). "Živeti s muzikom". Vreme (Interview). No. 895. Interviewed by Ćirić, Sonja. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
- ^ Banac, Ivo (1988). With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism. Cornell University Press. p. 8. ISBN 0-8014-2186-1. JSTOR 10.7591/j.ctv75d52q.
- ^ Uz Maršala Tita (Slovenian translation): Z maršalom Titom (2019-07-12). Maj Zore, LyricsTranslate.
- ^ Со маршалот Тито. Hosted on Macedonian Wikisource.
"Не е поетски превод. Преводот е базиран на принципите на буквалниот превод." - ^ So Súdruhom Titom lyrics. Hosted on LyricsTranslate.
"The Slovak version of the Yugoslav Partisan song 'Uz Maršala Tita'.
Year: 1977
Music: Oskar Danon
Lyrics: Antal Fekete" - ^ ЮГОСЛАВСКИЕ ПАРТИЗАНЫ - УЗ МАРШАЛА ТИТА (2016-11-02). byplaynew.ru.
- ^ With Marshal Tito (Uz Maršala Tita) [English] (2014-08-28). Hosted on YouTube. Published by "GETChan".
- ^ JOSIP TITO. Alpha History.
- ^ Yugoslav Patriotic Song: Uz Maršala Tita - With Marshal Tito (DPRK Choir) (2021-03-19). Hosted on YouTube. Published by "Danjori".
- ^ Ansambl DNR Koreja (DPR North Korea) - UZ MARŠALA TITA / With Marshal Tito (2021-07-16). Hosted on YouTube. Published by "YU 0 Laki / Jugoslovenski partizani".