Unpopular opinion: I fucking hate Bella Ciao becoming popular in the west (hexbear.net)

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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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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What we need to do is make a big budget Hollywood movie about Italian antifascists that starts at the end of the war and shows how they were systematically crushed by America to prevent them from sweeping into power with the restoration of Italian elections.

Someone call James Cameron. We can make the Italian antifascists blue if that's what he wants.

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

I disagree that we need to make a big budget hollywood movie about that. I think we need to make ten, in order to make up for the years and years of propaganda. Thanks for the idea, that's pretty cool.