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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

To preface the post: I don't have anything against the song itself. It's a beautiful and historically significant song about Italian antifascist partisans.

My point is that it's been marketed by fucking Netflix show Money Heist, it's been emptied and hollowed of all its meaning, and EVEN if it hadn't, it's again glorifying the role of western antifascists instead of those who won the fucking war: the Soviets.

It was NOT Italian Partisans who SAVED EUROPE from fascism. It was the Bolsheviks. I do not want a world where Bella Ciao isn't sung, I want a world in which for every time we sing Bella Ciao, we sing 10 times Katyuscha, the Soviet Anthem, Svyaschyonnaya Voyna, or Krasnaya Armiya Vsyekh Sil'nyey. The Soviets were the only country that sold fucking weapons and sent trained soldiers, tank drivers and pilots to Republican Spain (the country where Money Heist was made), and yet we're commercializing songs about the Italian partisans. FUCK ME SIDEWAYS.

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[-] Edie@hexbear.net 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There are no indications of the relevance of "Bella ciao" among the partisan brigades, nor of the very existence of the 'partisan version' prior to the first publication of the text in 1953. There are no traces in the documents of the immediate postwar period nor is it present in important songbooks. It is not found, for example, in Pasolini's 1955 Canzoniere Italiano nor in the Canti Politici of Editori Riuniti of 1962. [...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao

[-] SickSemper@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

Damn, never knew that

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