"Get up, hungry and cold slave; Get up, the whole world suffers ... "This inspiring poem is the opening words of the Internationale. Speaking of the Internationale, you will naturally think of the Paris Commune, because the Internationale was born in the smoke of the Paris Commune.
in early p>1871, France finally lost in the Franco-Prussian War. The French bourgeois government signed a surrender agreement with Germany, which completely exposed its traitorous nature. In this case, on March 18th, the working class in Paris resolutely took up arms and threw themselves into the revolutionary torrent to overthrow the traitor and incompetent reactionary government. After tenacious fighting, the Paris Commune, the first prototype of proletarian regime in the world, was established on March 28th. This regime, which represents the interests of the proletariat, has been hated by the bourgeoisie and reactionaries in various countries. The thiers government rallied the Versailles bandits and collaborated with the Prussian invading army to carry out a bloody suppression of the Paris Commune.
On May 21st, when the enemy invaded the city of Paris, the famous and cruel "May Bloody Week" began. All commune members, those who participated in the fighting and those who looked like workers, whether women or children, were killed. P A large number of injured commune members were buried alive. On May 27th-28th, 2 commune soldiers fought to the death with 5, enemies in Bell Lachez Cemetery. In the case of all the ammunition, the heroic workers and soldiers shouted "Long live the commune" and died generously. The whole city of Paris was "turned into a magic cave" by the bloodthirsty dogs of Versailles.
The author of the lyrics of The Internationale is Eugè ne Pottier, a great poet. Pottier was born in a worker's family, and began to be an apprentice at the age of 13. He joined the 183 Revolution in his youth. In 1848, he took part in the February Revolution and the June Uprising as a soldier. When the Paris Commune was founded, he was elected as a member of the Commune. In the battle to defend the commune, he took up arms and joined the workers in Paris. In the bloody battle, he witnessed the ferocity of the enemy and the heroism of the workers. On the second day after the failure of the Paris Commune, he hid in the suburbs of Paris, lying under the rubble-scattered earth wall, and wrote the battle poem "Internationale" which condensed the lives and blood of the workers in Paris. The author solemnly declared: "There has never been a savior", and it is up to us to "create human happiness." "Unite until tomorrow, and it must be realized", fully expressing his belief in winning the cause of * * * capitalism.
On June 16th, 1888, Buel Degeyter, a worker composer, saw The Internationale for the first time. He was full of emotion and blood, and with the passion of the proletariat, he composed music for The Internationale overnight. On July 23rd, he personally conducted the first performance of the Paris Workers' Choir at the Paris Workers' Club. Since then, a solemn and majestic proletarian war song with words and music has come out.
The Internationale is a proletarian song all over the world. For more than 1 years, it has flown out of Paris, broken clouds and fog, crossed mountains and seas and spread all over the world. The Internationale, like an ever-burning torch, illuminates the whole world. As Lenin pointed out, "The commune was destroyed ... but Pottier's Internationale spread its ideas all over the world."