Säkkijärven Polkka Med Ortens Patrask Morjärv

Roger Shackelton · From: MINNESOTA (deceased)

SÃ¤kkijÃ¤rven Polkka Med Ortens Patrask MorjÃ¤rv

Uploaded on Aug. 5, 2010

Inspelningen Ã¤r Gjord Vid En Gammal Kolarkoja UtanfÃ¶r MorjÃ¤rv i NÃ¥dens Ã¥r Augusti 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS-dqK1Tl-E

I Think These 2 Guys May Be Norwegians. ??

Roger

Jussi Huhtakangas · From: Helsinki, Finland

SÃ¤kkijÃ¤rven Polkka is an old Finnish polka which actually is a combination of three different folk tunes from the area of SÃ¤kkijÃ¤rvi ( Sacklake ). There's an interesting story to it from the WWII era; Russians had invated the city of Vyborg in the old east part of Finland and placed so called radio mines around town. These mines exploded when a certain tri chord on a certain radio frequence was broadcasted by the Russians. When Finnish troops eventually discovered what was going on, two broadcasting cars were sent out to drive around town playing SÃ¤kkijÃ¤rven Polka over and over again to disturb the Russian radio frequences and prevent the mines from exploding. It was known that the batteries of the mines lasted for a couple of months, so the song was played appr 1500 times around the city. Most of the mines never exploded and the city was saved for the time. This is the version tha was played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZx1zl_sVTI

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