Do you have any clue what Bella Ciao means? Here is a subtitled and illustrated version.

[@prillewitz]

Somehow I find your version less cosy.

[@bobdbaobab]

even if we wake up in the morning, we no longer see the invader. from today's perspective these people who sacrificed their lives for the idea of freedom (for others, not even for themselves) seem surreal. "If you just stand and watch, the enemy will hang you one by one like this. Don't be afraid of death. She is nothing. You will see that in a few moments when I am dying. Death is not scary if you know what you are dying for." Stjepan Filipović 1916-1942

[@Zerbey]

I've been in countless Italian restaurants and heard this song played, I never knew what the lyrics meant. Such a horribly sad song for such a jaunty tune.

[@CrocodileTear]

I am happy the video was useful to you.

[@Zerbey]

@@CrocodileTear Thank you for taking the time to translate it and put it in the proper context.

[@jonhaneskog1573]

Thanks for translating the song. I don't speak Italian but I did understand roughly what the song was about.

[@YesiPleb]

Thank-you for making this video. I found out a while back what the song was about and I've not heard this version of it but I have seen people dance to it clearly having no idea what the song is about. I was born in 1973 and thanks to my brother I have an extensive knowledge of WWII and what happened as his interest rubbed off on me and we've both got an interest in it. It's amazing to look at people in society now and see how people seem to have forgotten the horrors of war. You've only got to mention to many now of what's going on in Ukraine to be met with a look of boredom like you've stepped in something and made to feel like you've made a massive mistake by mentioning it. There's atrocities going all around the world and people don't seem to care. This is how this stuff gets repeated. We must never forget.

[@gb896]

As Italian myself and history lover, THANK YOU for teaching the world the true meaning of this song.

[@BICHETO]

Thank you for posting this. 💔🖤 never forget never again

[@dmeinhertzhagen8764]

Touching and poignant partisan song. Marco Calliari made me discover it and later the version in Casa del Papel was good too.

[@davekreitzer4358]

Nicely done , I do now know and great history with photos , thanks for sharing ! 👍

[@testboga5991]

Young people partying >> Young people dying in war

[@sparkey6746]

Thank you for making this video.

[@bernardsolo5874]

History takes no prisoners, the dance of fools continues.... one war will end, another will begin😢

[@shakalpb1164]

There is also a Yugoslav version, where the lyrics are surprisingly accurate to the original

[@ellin67]

Of course we know the lyrics of the song. If you live in Europe and you're over 40 you should the lyrics to this song. And the disco version is sacrilegious. But that's just my opinion.

[@jasperfromming6633]

They fought for freedom, what was their death for, if we stay Somber all the time, many of them would have loved to Party.

[@gregkelly8014]

why would you drink, party and dance to a song about dying for freedom and your country? I think the meaning of the song has been lost.

[@CruzSanchezRipa]

Absolutely. For many, it can't be further from any thought about the war. And if we speak about other countries that are not Italy, the only thing they tend to memorize is "Bella, Ciao". The song has lost its message for the new generations. On the other hand, and I'm sorry to say this, it's normal, no matter how against it we are. The IIWW is depicted in those old, boring films that grandpa wanted to see instead of the animated picture of the moment. A real pity, but it's the truth. BTW, I love also a good old war flick. But I am 51.

[@Dokus360]

Great piece of history there. Reminds me of my boarding high school/ college anthem. We once had German dignitaries visiting and for a week and the headmaster forbade us from singing the anthem whilst they were around. ……a young inquisitive me did a bit of research and found out why😮 …… The melody was that of Horst-Wessel-Lied / Die Fahne Hoch. 😳🫣

[@CrocodileTear]

Wouldnt want the Germans to hear their own music now, would we.

[@ahmedhamdy4587]

The difference between the " greatest generation " and " generation z "

[@CrocodileTear]

That could be a good title for the video :)

[@russellcampbell9641]

They still know this song well in northern Italy!

[@leoscheibelhut940]

I did, in fact, know what the song meant. I salute all those who fought against fascism and for freedom, especially those who gave their lives.

[@robertsaget6918]

> the guy in the white shirt center frame doing a bump at 2:41 to the drop lmao

[@skoozy_hunter024]

LMFAOO good eye 😂😂

[@VictorianTimeTraveler]

I have no words

[@-----REDACTED-----]

Well…I suppose at least the song stays in memory… though people ought to take the song much more to heart since it increasingly regains its relevance with a seemingly renewed rise of Evil.

[@Joemama555]

and what if they DO know...... glory to them.

[@tedbaxter5234]

They don’t know, don’t care.

[@vonjororo]

What / who is in the picture at 0:48 ?

[@CrocodileTear]

Those are some resistance men from the mountains around Nice.

[@andreaturbolz3542]

First, from an italian point of vieuw, is not a song to sing at the restaurant, or at a dancing club. That’s is for stupids. Too important and sad is the text of the song. Second, at the moment, a song born to celebrate the resistance against the invader (partisans against german army) and to celebrate all the partisans (comunist partisans, democratic partisans, right partisans that disagree with fascism …ecc) has been stolen by the lefty parties in Italy, becoming “their song”, in a disrespectful way toward the memory of “not comunist” partisans. That the actual situation in Italy about this song

[@sammyseguin2978]

Just wondering if a patriotic song like that would entice the youth of today to fight against a foreign invader.......or not.

[@randomcbsekid]

It has definitely entriced the youth to go clubbing..thanks to Netflix

[@Michael-j4l3d]

Western countries are not as bad as say PRC for example but at the rate our governments are going we may surpass china, if brazil and the EUs policy towards twitter is anything to go off were not too far off a great firewall. BlackRock is likely to be a worse landlord than the CCP so I can legitimately see the next generation and those born in the next few years especially wanting to roll the dice and potentially let the invader win or frag their commanders if conscripted

[@maxbanuelos1181]

governments send their youth to war .

[@MoritzvonSchweinitz]

While the completely ignorant disco way of using this beautiful song is of course horrible - I do like to think that the original song has a certain happy, defiant, fatalistic tone to it. As in "bye, my darling! I'll go be a partisan and die doing it, but I am strangely up-beat about it bcause it is the right thing to do!" In that sense, I don't think it is necessarily bad to sing it in a strange happy and proud way in a bar - as long as you are aware what it is about.

[@CrocodileTear]

People can sing as they wish, I would just like them to understand what they are singing.

[@g1stylempdesign929]

Amazing, thank you! I find all dance clubs and most attendees bereft of any actual concern for substance or any relative sense of worldly conscience. This usually being the case before entering the venue, during and after. People hate having to challenge their worldly view and their place in it with fact. It’s an inconvenience they cannot muster the strength of mind to comprehend.

[@molybdomancer195]

It annoys me that fans of the football club I support have taken this tune to use for a chant about one of the players. It feels sacrilegious

[@vnsworkshop9961]

I m Italian, It correctly translated. It Is a shame to see as young people have fun without know the tragedy of war. Really a shame. But this Song It was destroyed by the european rigth party... They really don t know Wath means

[@NobleWolf810]

They fought the wrong enemy!

[@DieLuftwaffel]

Interesting song to rave to lol

[@joey243win]

Eh kinda think a lesson has been lost in time 😢

[@lorenzo-sf1fh]

0:24 here the best translation is "This morning I woke up" not "One morning I woke up"

[@ryano7832]

You learn something every day. Thx! Viva la France!

[@kskdtr]

"stamattina..." is "this morning", not "one morning" (that would be "una mattina")

[@CrocodileTear]

I used an "official translation", where they take the liberty to adapt the text so it sounds best in another language, even though each word may not be translated correctly.

[@johndemeen5575]

Nothing has changed, the world still wars. Vaya con Dios to all. St.Paul,Minnesota.

[@ericwanderweg8525]

There’s no profit in peace.

[@nxblnxbl]

@@ericwanderweg8525 Indeed, and there won't be peace ever, till people unite and stand against their leaders who start and push those wars and i mean in all countries.

[@pierpaolosabbadini7945]

questa canzone è stata scritta dopo la fine della guerra e non era un canto partigiano. Una traduzione della canzone patriottica russa Kathiuscha era cantata ma modificata dai partigiani comunisti .... Partigiani che senza l'aiuto degli alleati sarebbero stati annientati ... guardate le porcate fatte sui civili e le rappresaglie che scatenarono . Il fratello di mio nonno era comunista ed era al confino già dal 1938, tornato a casa fu assassinato dai comunisti perchè fratello di un fascista ...

[@CruzSanchezRipa]

Wow, 😮😔

[@AComan-ch5wt]

Cant see it

[@CrocodileTear]

Cant see it, or cant watch it?

[@g1stylempdesign929]

Praise the glorious Dead!

[@kookythekooker]

İ knew it so what? This is nothing compared to many songs/marchs out.there.

[@CrocodileTear]

Do they also dance to your marches in night clubs?

[@gorofujita5767]

The pictures at 01:24 and 01:26 are known Soviet wartime propaganda props which continue being disseminated as factual

[@CrocodileTear]

Do you have any evidence to back this claim? Not sure why they would need to make propaganda props when it is well documented the Germans executed millions of civilians.

[@gorofujita5767]

@@CrocodileTear it is “well documented” because the allies (winners) decided upon that narrative and thus manufactured and cartographed those “facts”, starting with the Nuremberg trial consensus, where a lot of “confessions” were obtained with either torture or promises of freedom or less-bad sanctions/penalties It is also instructive to point out how the “war of extermination” myth was forced by Stalin's Propaganda Minister the very second there was an official communication by the soviet authorities in regards to Barbarossa. Without having any idea of the operation in itself and without Germans having done anything at all, the Kremlin was already screaming bloody murder, foreshadowing how every Russian would have to move to the frontline or be executed on the spot, or executed by blocking battalions if they attempted to escape or retreat (which amounts to slavery and intentional genocide, for the sake of protecting a government and regime) It was the way of a regime that just insisted on not ever going down no matter what (to the last Russian life) to press gang and force an entire population to fight to the death and to shove civilians right under artillery fire. Stalin famously impeded Stalingrad from having its civilians evacuated after Germans started moving to occupy the city, in an attempt to maximize Russian civilians casualties and get as many people as possible involved in the sacrificial war effort (Again: Stalin *forcing* people to needlessly die to protect his own governmental cabinet) .

[@CrocodileTear]

@@gorofujita5767 You did not answer the question asked to you, so I assume you have no evidence those photos are fake. There are litteraly thousands of mass graves of executed civilians that have been located in eastern Europe in recent years, regardless of who lost the war or what the communist propaganda said.

[@gorofujita5767]

@@CrocodileTear This is KZbin, and I cannot send you neither ebooks (PDFs or epubs) nor paste images. And neither do I want to get myself into deeper politics, and link you to forums or discussion groups which either you or onlookers will promptly dismiss as biased. If you're concerned with ultimate truths regardless of social conditioning though, you will keep research things further and further, and, as it is the case with any other conflict _(including ongoing ones, like Israel X Palestine, or Russia X Ukraine -- both with their mutual attempts at hiding the actuality of real events, whether we're talking about the Bucha Massacre or what actually went down in Oct 7)_ you'll come to learn what happened during WW2 was much more complex than it seems, and there's there a while lot of "victor's justice" and "victor's facts" camouflaging the actual truth (including, like I said, Stalin's victims being blamed on the Axis) Whatever the case though, for starters here's an innocuous list with a handful of doctored images which were used as propaganda during WW2. www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-popular-faked-images-of-World-War-II

[@gorofujita5767]

@@CrocodileTear This is KZbin, and I cannot send you neither ebooks (PDFs or epubs) nor paste images. And neither do I want to get myself into deeper politics, and link you to forums or discussion groups which either you or onlookers will promptly dismiss as biased. If you're concerned with ultimate truths regardless of social conditioning though, you will keep researching things further and further, and, as it is the case with any other conflict (including ongoing ones, like Israel X Palestine, or Russia X Ukraine -- both with their mutual attempts at hiding the actuality of real events, whether we're talking about the Bucha Massacre or what actually went down in Oct 7) you'll come to learn what happened during WW2 was much more complex than it seems, and there's there a while lot of "victor's justice" and "victor's facts" camouflaging the actual truth (including, like I said, mass graves of Stalin's victims being blamed on the Axis) Whatever the case though, for starters here's an innocuous list with a handful of doctored images which were used as propaganda during WW2. www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-popular-faked-images-of-World-War-II

[@thomask.8533]

So, who were the invaders, who were the invaded? Oh, got it: "The song was later made as an anthem of the anti-fascist resistance by the Italian partisans between 1943 and 1945 during the Italian Resistance, against the Nazi Germany." I keep forgetting that Italians have a hard time ending a war on the side they started on...

[@CrocodileTear]

Its never too late to realize that being allied with one of the most infamous and murderous regims of history is not a good idea.

[@thomask.8533]

@@CrocodileTear "...most infamous and murderous regims of history..." ? You are delusional!

[@cubeh8331]

I don't understand the point of this video? What's the problem with the people singing this in a nightclub nowadays? Should music only be reserved for the context it was written in? Because if so we would be going without a lot of music.

[@brentonProd]

I think he means it so. People dance to it like it is a happy song or so. And in generell 99% Dont know what hes saying. And due to the translation we can see what it is about. And it shows that the song itself is really sad and not happy. The dancing scenes seems afterwards also really "funny" because they dont know the translation.

[@CrocodileTear]

What percentage of the people do you think understand the lyrics? Is this song also played in night clubs in Italy? Can you tell me some songs with similar lyrics that people dance on? I personaly used to get goosebumps when I heard this song. Not something I want to dance joyfully to. But to each his own.

[@brentonProd]

Excatly what i thought.@@CrocodileTear

[@cubeh8331]

@@brentonProd I'd have to disagree that the main sentiment of this song is one of sadness. The song seems to me to be about a man's defiance and willingness to give his life for a greater purpose, even if that means saying goodbye to his love. It is of course sad that these things must happen but for the person who wrote it, it seems like they are willing to fight against hopeless odds in order to hold true to whatever values he had. It certainly seems to be the type of song that people can dance and sing to, the message is a good one.

[@cubeh8331]

@@CrocodileTear I'm not sure if it's sung in Italy, was your recording from a Russian nightclub? If so it would make sense that it is commonly sung there, as I thought the Great Patriotic War was very important culturally and many Russians fought as Partisans?

[@AFRPerformance]

Thank you for the history. Hard times make strong man, strong man create good time, and good times create WEAK man!

[@saidsaadi6286]

A terrible period …to remember

[@CrocodileTear]

😘

[@inigoromon1937]

Yet they are being forgotten or despised because many of the m believed in communism (however wrong or whatever). It seems that fighting fascism is not an issue any more.

[@g0rdonfreeman1]

What is the context of the image at 2:04?

[@CrocodileTear]

Look up Stjepan Filipović hanging