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 just watched a video today about how the majority of the Holocaust didn’t happen in Germany, but in central and eastern Europe. Was glad to hear some actual informed takes from social media… then he says “…and in the Soviet Union.” I did like a triple take because the guy seemed knowledgeable in the first half. Turns out he was referring to people killed by the Germans in territory lost by the Soviet forces. Extremely sloppy language and I just know it was intentional to imply that the Soviets were involved in carrying out the Holocaust rather than the opposite, saving people from it. Really disappointing the state of social media.