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.
I think celebrating Italian antifascists is cool and good, and a lot of them were communists, too. I don’t see why it needs to be a competition even if I do wish the Red Army got more credit than it does.
Yea I would just take the W and use it as a means to encourage people to look into some of those other songs and histories. Basically that xkcd comic about being happy to teach someone something new, even if you think they should already know by now.