The old Stalin song, and many like it, were part of popular culture in WW2.
British workers painted red stars on supplies for Russia, and surely an
encouraging Stalin ditty was preferable to one praising the other side ----.
Just joined he group - discovered Wyatt a few months ago and find his musical style very agreeable - lots to appreciate Just wondering if people have any info...
A Google search for "East Timor" + "history" turns up several sites that give brief histories of that territory. At the time of "Old Rottenhat" (1985), East...
... You're right, Dan. When I told that Ken Gillespie commanded the United Nations Sector West multinational brigade in East Timor in 1999, I didn't think that...
So Wyatt then celebrates a brutal genocidal maniac with "Song for Che"? Love his music, despise his politics. Wyatt seems never to have met a genocidal...
Mr. Berry, ... Nobody denies the genocidal and maniac side of Stalin. And yes, he was a hugely crude and inhuman dictator. But I'm wondering how much do you...
Yesterday night I played "Rabo de nube" and -- yes! -- "Song for Che" in my radio programme, in the live versions by the Liberation Music Orchestra with Carla...
Hello, Rattlers, Steven Brown here - all the way from de' deep South USA. I propose we wrap this one up. While some of us are celebrating Hugh Hopper, this...
... Maybe, but at least he had the balls to stand up for people with the same opinion, and thanks for the insult. ... Please feel free to move to Cuba or N....
I think, when he was young, Wyatt embraced an enthusiasm for the Communist party - probably due to a combination of youthful idealism and an affection for a...
The old Stalin song, and many like it, were part of popular culture in WW2. British workers painted red stars on supplies for Russia, and surely an encouraging...
David Kipling
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Jul 3, 2009 3:03 pm
... What delicious irony... One hand espousing "freedom", the other telling me to move away from here... Laa (laughing at amerikkka)...
... Seems like you have things turned around here, very 21st century attribute it seems. I don't remember him ever espousing these things. Could be me! Maybe...
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary... These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary...
Aymreic - I totally agree with you on not turning this debate into non-musical areas. But I will have to note that the right way to do it would have been not...
... We get the picture that Ben doesn't approve of Che Guevara - but to describe him as a dictator shows wilful neglect of the English language. - Nick...
Thanks for the background search stuff on 'East Timor' ... I searched a bit more - the historical politcal context is clear from Wiki as below. Gillespie...
Greetings Rattlers. It has been quite an interesting, if not occasionally shallow, discussion about Robert Wyatt's song 'East Timor'. First and foremost, let's...
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