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.
yeah 100% it sucks. although in a lot of countries (including Italy, right now) the meaning is still well-understood and it was sung plenty last Friday at the general strike in Italy for Palestine.
what the hell are you talking about, way to shit all over the Italians communists and allied fighters who deposed and hung Mussolini. We should celebrate the Red Army alongside the partisans and not draw a distinction between their struggle against fascism. You know the Red Army Choir sung Bella Ciao too, in solidarity with their Italian comrades?