O hear me, my compatriot

Kupalo songfolkComposerArranger

Mar 20

Written By andrew waller

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O hear me, my compatriot | Чи чуєш мій друже | Chy chujesh mij druzhe

Arranger: Zoya Markovych | Зоя Маркович

This song, arranged for women's choir by Zoya Markovych, is about soldiers encouraging each other to take up arms in defence of Ukraine. It is taken from a collection of music written during the time of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army ("UPA"). The UPA was a Ukrainian nationalist partisan army that arose out of military formations from the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, as well as other militant national-patriotic formations. It operated from 1941 to 1943 and engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during WWII against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and others. Its goal was the re-establishment of a united, independent national state of Ukraine on Ukrainian ethnic territory.