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1. tsimio+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-07 15:09:00
We do have one [0], from 1990, a series of protests right after the 1989 revolution (the protests were violently squashed by miners with pickaxes summoned by the president of that time).

It goes something like this (in a somewhat word for word translation, and keeping in mind that the big bad at the time were leaders of the former communist party):

    Better a vagrant,
    Than a traitor,
    Better a hooligan,
    Than a dictator,
    Better a hoodlum,
    Than a party activist,
    Better dead,
    Then a communist
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSlUW5Imylc
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2. 082349+HB1[view] [source] 2020-06-08 06:21:44
>>tsimio+(OP)
mersi — this is about the protestors, was it ever sung by them?

(coincidentally, YT just suggested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJTOD5jjac4 )

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3. tsimio+sh3[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-08 20:39:26
>>082349+HB1
I was too young back then, but my impression is that this was sort of sung in concert among the protesters.

I may be wrong and it may have been after the fact though, I'm not entirely sure.

The lyrical voice is meant to represent the voice of the protesters, for what that's worth - it's not singing about 'them', but about 'us'.

That related video is pretty sad to see - one of the greatest freedom fighter and labor rights[0] protest songs, perverted as a commercial for some Netflix TV series...

[0] in case you haven't heard it before, there's an even older version then the anti fascist one, which was a protest song from the women working the rice paddies in 19th century Italy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6CW6l-A1rnk

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4. 082349+cK4[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-09 12:47:07
>>tsimio+sh3
grazie! I hadn't heard that one.

The wobblies anticipated Portal's "The Cake is a Lie" with "Pie in the Sky":

    Work and pray, live on hay
    You'll get pie in the sky when you die, that's a lie
but later got googlebombed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6n71-zctE

(it's also bleakly amusing to have learned from Youtube that Paul Robeson —up until they cancelled his passport— sang different words to "Old Man River" in the US and in the USSR)

On a lighter note, it seems US kids do still sing "This Land" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRnHx3yVuf4

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