Bella Ciao! Helin Bolek and Mustafa Kocak

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This post from Spartak77 somehow got deleted so I have re posted it since I totally agree with its contents.
Apologies to Spartak77 for losing the original post.

Today, April 25, is a special day in Italy, it is a national holiday to remember the expulsion of the Nazi-fascists from the country.
Usually it is celebrated in the squares where there are partisan songs concerts.
The most loved that accompanies this festivity is Bella Ciao.
But this year we are locked in the house and we cannot celebrate.
So I want to share this song in this forum, as if it was a square, a virtual square.
I propose a version sung by the Turkish group Grup Yorum in a 2010 concert
The members of this group that has produced 27 albums and sold more than 2 million copies are considered terrorists, like many other intellectuals and artists, by the Turkish dictator Erdogan
Helin Bolek and Mustafa Kocak had been arrested along with other members of the group who had not been able to escape abroad.
Mustafa Kocak died yesterday, Helin Bolek twenty days ago. They had been on hunger strike for nearly 300 days, they were only 28 years old.
Bella Ciao sung by this group who is dying in prison is even more beautiful.

The dictator Erdogan is not content with killing the Kurdish people, but is also killing his people.

Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it.

antiX with runit - leaner and meaner.

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Thanks!

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i’ve watched grup yorum live over a decade ago (iirc) in athens.. gave me chills then, giving me chills now..
another bella ciao version i enjoy :
https://invidio.us/watch?v=55yCQOioTyY

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another Grup Yorum member died today, Ibrahim Gokcek… 🙁

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Unfortunately the vast majority of the poor and working poor in Turkey, Greece, and elsewhere, are more interested in finding a way to get a new i-phone/galaxy, go to rave techno parties and swallow pills, pray to allah or orthodox gods, and dream of vacations in trendy resorts, rather than read 2 paragraphs of why those people were arrested, went to hunger strike, and died. The same will spend countless hours browsing through absolute trash on facebook because it brings them “positive energy”.

We are proud of the “negative energy” we bring to them. (1/2 m v**2) < 0

ζενόμουνα που λέει κι ένας σύντροφος

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There is a basketball player that joined the Boston Celtics at the beginning of the now halted season.

At one point he lived in Turkey and I think that he may have been born there. To this dictator guy he’s a trouble maker, but as you guys are explaining, it’s the Turkish dictator who is scary.

Enes Kantor had a long interview back in January to explain why he speaks out and also why he avoids traveling to Turkey and is also cautious any time that he leaves the USA.

However there was a terrible event that occurred in Washington DC that can be traced to extremists affiliated with Erdogan.

I’m sorry that this world has to deal with this kind of thing!

I genuinely want to meet people from many origins, but I never seek out extremists who are extreme, instead of promoting just and kind behavior.

I value other cultures. I only avoid the violent ones, but greatly appreciate different ways of living and learning about those who are very different than me.

Too bad that there are power hungry, violent, selfish people. Thankfully there are also many kind, sharing, considerate people too. These are the people who I enjoy meeting.

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