FDJ ● IFA Wartburg [GDR pop song][+English translation]

[@LifeofMortis]

Das lied hat echt Schwung 😄, passt auch wirklich zum heutigen Jahrestag. Fröhlichen Mauerbau Tag😂

[@t.k.3349]

Dir auch Mortis 😂 Daran hab ich heute gar nicht gedacht.. Mal was anderes 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😂😂😂

[@LifeofMortis]

@@t.k.3349 Ja da hast du recht 😄

[@HolyLionProphet]

Zumindest wird es nie wieder auftauchen

[@PzKmpfw4H]

Den Mauer bautag sehe ich eher als einen trauertag

[@LifeofMortis]

@@PzKmpfw4H Ich versichere dir das war nur als Witz gemeint

[@waitotong9590]

If DDR decided to make an anime series about FDJ back then, this would definitely be the theme song

[@kaiservonpanzer213]

i was thinking the exact same thing

[@kayli_mar3302]

THAT'S WHAT IM SAYING

[@aidena3311]

true

[@cgt3704]

Why then. We can stil make it now.

[@SchizophrenixTheGaul3478]

I"m setting up camp here until someone did

[@buncho6199]

For anyone who doesnt know, this isnt an actual GDR song, it was created in 1998 by a Swedish band

[@DerCent161]

This is extremely disappointing

[@iuyfshfiey3105]

but still its epic!

[@throwfascistsintopits3062]

Still sounds like something GDR would use.

[@Retard634]

@@throwfascistsintopits3062 first your name tells me you're a good little useful idiot but the fact you think theyd use this music which is mocking the glorious gdr or that communist bureaucrats could make something as catchy as this tells me you're the type of person who would be writting to stalin asking him to get the nkvd to stop stealing your grain from you

[@vanukas8783]

Swedes really know how to make music, huh?

[@benalor1973]

While parts of the lyrics is ironic in context of history, but this is an absolute enjoyable song.

[@dvv18]

The whole song is ironic.

[@Buorgenhaeren]

It is only ironic if you learn all your history from children's memes and western propaganda the DDR was much more patriotic and proud than the self hating west germans and westerners in general nowadays.

[@viklin3282]

@@Buorgenhaeren The song is satire though, by the Swedish band IFA Wartburg

[@ZedAufDEU]

ayo seit wann ist draco malfoy ein teil der FDJ?

[@ycasto1063]

Du wirst sehen dass einige Jugendorganisationen besser sind als andere, Potter!

[@kiritomato1908]

Dobby lebt nicht mehr in der DDR, Dobby ist Frei!

[@pomeranianproductions647]

My mother was proud to be part of the Jungpioniere (Young Pioneers) and was severely disappointed when she didnt get her red handkerchief and couldnt join the FDJ because of the GDR collapsed too fast. Edit: This doesnt mean she liked the government just to clear that up. Being part of the FDJ was simply an unwritten prerequisite for getting an good job later on.

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

Intressant

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

When will you make more videos?wenn willst du mehr KZbin videos machen? Ik hebb en fråg. Wenn willst du mehr videon op dien youtube kanal måken?

[@sisophon1982]

@@readisgooddewaterkant7890 sverige?

[@chatnoir1224]

My parents were in soviet pioneer organization and had tons of fun activities. My my childhood in post-Soviet Russia in 1990 was grey and dull compared to there.

[@Sarimae23]

Not all things of socialist countries are bad. Nor are all things good in democratic systems ,well...pseudo-democratic systems, like the GDR 2.0 we currently live in. ;)

[@nicolasinostrozabeltran5318]

This sounds like a song of german communist power rangers.

[@Lichcrafter]

So basically this is the East German version of the YMCA song?

[@dvv18]

Nope.

[@Mary_Kraensel]

😆😆😆😆😆

[@GodpraisethePALANTINE]

Holy shit, your right

[@SmithIsPrettyGreat]

True that is very true

[@AlbertCamus-r6i]

Yes.

[@Richartichaut]

IFA Wartburg deserves to be much more famous their songs are so good ! Respect from France !

[@pick_84]

Réel

[@umbrella3953]

I don't care if this is satire its still a bop

[@hannovonbahrenfeld5986]

Ist das Absicht für den Tag heute? XD

[@johannes968]

2 days in a row with 2 uploads? Danke schön Ludwig 🇧🇻🇩🇪❤ Not often

[@chatnoir1224]

"We all are so German here" - based commie song

[@_jan_79]

the DDR was Pro-German and Patriotic

[@Buorgenhaeren]

@@_jan_79 Much much more than today's Germany

[@_jan_79]

@@Buorgenhaeren absolutely, and the leftists today are idiots, they dont really stand for good things anymore...

[@bossman5284]

@@_jan_79 Not all leftists are like that

[@IshijimaKairo]

@@_jan_79 nowadays, they're soft and weak, relying on their allies.

[@Sergio-gu5in]

No matter the ideology, Germany will always do bangers.

[@Thousine]

does he know?

[@Sergio-gu5in]

​@@Thousineis not propaganda😢?

[@Thousine]

@@Sergio-gu5in it's just a little trolling

[@Sergio-gu5in]

@@Thousine 😔

[@kleptu_]

Sadly this is a Swedish band

[@ВладимирМельников-п4ж]

Хорошая песня. Скачал её себе в коллекцию. Автору канала желаю всех благ и долгой жизни в здравии!

[@GustaveIer]

Strange but cool at the same time 😂

[@lividus4804]

This one is a banger xD

[@thorstenmarquardt7274]

because it wasn't made by Germans

[@IshijimaKairo]

@@thorstenmarquardt7274 oi, Germans also make bangers

[@lennart9234]

@@thorstenmarquardt7274 Never listened to Monika?

[@traditionalimations6671]

miss me with that k-pop shit, i listen to G-POP

[@tcrrodrigues]

if DDR was a anime this would be the intro music lmao

[@daniel2848]

Sau geil. Läuft in dauerschleife 😁

[@braunreal]

Do you think you could do more songs by IFA Wartburg such as "Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes" or "Im Dienste des KGB"? I'm unable to find lyrics for either of them and I'd like to learn them, plus both songs are pretty good

[@dr.ludwig]

Yes we can do more, but it will be random when they come.

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

If you're an East German who was born in 1900 and made it to 2000, then you saw so many "this is totally the one true political answer" paradigm shifts in your lifetime. It started with the Kaiserreich, where monarchy was cool and democracy was lame, then went to the Weimar Republic, where democracy was cool and monarchy was lame; then the Nazis, where communism was an evil specter, then to communism, where the former political doctrine was the truest evil. Then suddenly communism is no longer cool and it's all about democracy again. And all the time, you had to mentally capitulate and truly believe in your heart that whatever the current party line was was the one true thing, otherwise risk being a thought criminal. Yet somehow Germans think that they are free and that the present censorship is legit because mirabile dictu, the country finally, this time around, really did hit on the ONE TRUE THING.

[@mrsupremegascon]

Exactly. My grand father who went in school in the 40s/50s when France went through 3 differents regimes (Conservative leaned Republic, Fascist regime, Communist leaned Republic), everytime he returned to school to learn how the previous regime and the previous stuff he was taught were wrong, always told me that, in the end, there is no way to be sure who are the good guys. So the best is not to listen too much to your government narrative, and more follow your brain/heart.

[@m00se37]

That would be a full luck build probably.

[@jockson7574]

And then Nazism is lame and watch Germany start WW3

[@DeutschlandMapping]

The difference is that back then we had no choice but to act as if we were supporting the government. These days you can be sure about how many actually support it. And if there isn't enough support the government changes. That is the difference.

[@icareaboutyou12]

hyper-moralism and hyper-obedience is very common in Germany no matter the political ideology or ruling class

[@tallleprechaun1318]

Poor Manhattan, why does the FDJ hate them so?

[@AlbertCamus-r6i]

Probably due to Wall Street and The WTO being there...

[@rikaweimann6063]

You always have a great video !!✨ thank you from Berlin❤🍻

[@Kalashnikov413]

When people think that Communist countries only allowed certain types of music:

[@dvv18]

Nina Hagen started in the GDR. But this song has little to do with the communists.

[@Pioneer_DE]

@@dvv18 "Little to do with communists" the whole song litteraly talks about how great the german communist Youth league is, says how back in the day the kid used to be a Thälmann Follower (German Communist politican) and how Germany's Communist Army is the strongest,

[@dvv18]

@@Pioneer_DE 🤦‍♂️

[@glatteraal2678]

Google "the sun is Red in the Sky" 😂 Chinese equivalent

[@thorstenbohms4206]

@@Pioneer_DE The IFA Wartburg is a Swedish band that was active in 1998 and 1999, some time after the GDR ceased to exist. This song was made for fun and is, to a noticable degree, satirical. It isn't directly connected to the communist regime of the GDR.

[@behr2197]

this is a great song is there an instrumental??

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

Search for "YMCA instrumental". The closest you will find to what you're searching.

[@rabbiezekielgoldberg2497]

"Fellow kids, see how cool it is to be a communist?" I feel like they could have taken a better approach to the lyrics.

[@realGalactus]

It do be based tho.

[@scrytox6981]

the song was composed in 1950, what do you expect?

[@HolyLionProphet]

@Tigerplayr Etwas das die Welt auseinanderbrechen lässt. verschwinden

[@sneezyserena]

@@scrytox6981 Presumably in the eighties seeing that it refers to Reagan.

[@scrytox6981]

@@sneezyserena yea right Maybe i got the wrong info lol

[@fabovondestory]

"I serve the sovjet union" 🤝

[@ЭдгарГольцов]

Я так понял что песня задумывалась как сатирическая, на самом деле получился настоящий гимн этой организации. Сама песня - шикарная! Послушал ее уже раз 50

[@Тринадцатый-х4м]

А я так и не понял, что здесь сатиристического. Но тоже слушаю раз 50

[@wolfreich1672]

I bet this one gets never banned ;)

[@readisgooddewaterkant7890]

Beacuse it is so good

[@adrianbutitsjustapseudonym8681]

@@readisgooddewaterkant7890 No, because it's not an "old German song". It's actually from a Swedish band called IFA Wartburg... Yes, they make commie-music...

[@TheLamstyle]

"We all are so German here" line sounds kinda antisemitic tho

[@stulvus]

@@TheLamstyle no it doesn't wth? Do you have any idea what antisemetic means? Well obviously you don't lol

[@liberal_cookie]

I can almost speak German after listening to this

[@antyrak7905]

version with Soyjacks from discord brough me here, i guess i'm a Leninist now! All hail the Warszwa pact!

[@AMM-bs2ku]

This reminds me the Ceausescu era, when I was pioneer, with the red tie hanging from the neck as in this photo, attached by a transparent ring 😄 ; but the Berlin Wall was a disaster 😢

[@ellibertador64]

Richtig geil! Die Musik klingt wie das Intro von einer Quiz-Show aus dem 70ern. Und es macht Spaß damit zu singen!!!

[@thechickenFarmer50]

the first K-Pop german-pop

[@cornelius1467]

Ich habe gerade dieses wundervolle Lied entdeckt und ich liebe es, gute Arbeit!

[@bwv1044]

Man, another one those songs out of nowhere and I know i will listen to it 500 times.

[@cl3ber]

Orra, essa é pedrada

[@fuxihutterer8088]

Wir sind alle hier so frei 💀

[@Karl_Marx]

Du weißt du bist frei, wenn man es dauernt wiederholen muss.

[@felipeacosta9525]

In an alternative history, someone can imagine the n*zi pop music?

[@dr.ludwig]

In fact yes, if Germany won ww2, we would surely hear some modern music in that alternate Reich too.

[@karstenernst9897]

Ja das ist alles so richtig geschrieben und gesungen wurde. Das Musikvideo ist schon sehr gut an zu hören.

[@MrAngryBender]

Neon Genesis Honneckerion 2.0: You Can (Not) Cross Die Mauer

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

when the government tries to get to "get with the kids "

[@adrianbutitsjustapseudonym8681]

It's not originally from the GDR. It's from the (very red) band IFA Wartburg (a car factory in Thüringen) from Sweden

[@somepolishmoment9118]

DDR anime intro

[@krystalclounds777]

Bravo DDR !!!!!! Bravo FDJ !!!!!!

[@iuyfshfiey3105]

its so cool bruh i cant stop listening

[@Eyupgaming3169]

Ideologies aside,this is a enjoyable song

[@audileyeti4478]

What a banger

[@mrsupremegascon]

Ffs Ludwig, I became communist again, because of you! This is way too catchy.

[@dr.ludwig]

XD Pls only culturally

[@throwfascistsintopits3062]

@@dr.ludwig Wdym

[@piracy_gd]

Please say your joking

[@Thousine]

does he know

[@fictionwojak3595]

we lost another one

[@yahmin7786]

Guten nacht. 🎵🎶👍

[@ODDstan2]

Banger

[@H2O_Addict]

Certified hood classic

[@GustaveIer]

Fun fact: Je devais faire un diaporama sur l’Allemagne pour le repas franco-allemand à mon collège. En tant qu’intellectuel j’ai mis cette musique pour la musique d’ambiance. Tout le monde a adoré et personne ne comprenait les paroles. Il y avait un ami et moi qui étaient pétés de rire car on avait réussi à mettre une musique vantant la gloire du communisme dans la cantine d’un collège public. Oui, on est très cons. Oui, on est des génies.

[@kell9629]

Ma francais n‘est pas beau. Qu‘est ce que en allemand ou anglais?

[@GustaveIer]

​@@kell9629Fun fact: I had to make a slideshow about Germany for the Franco-German meal at my college. As an intellectual I put this music for background music. Everyone loved it and no one understood the lyrics. There was a friend and I who were laughing because we had managed to put music extolling the glory of communism in the canteen of a public school. Yes, we are very stupid. Yes, we are geniuses. Here!

[@kell9629]

@@GustaveIer Merci beaucoup : )

[@GustaveIer]

​@@kell9629 De rien :)

[@mephisto6486]

Kannte jemanden aus der FDJ ist scheinbar inzwischen nur noch ein Schatten seiner selbst. Aber der Refrain könnte wie nen Anime intro klingen vom vibe

[@pataynasiboni]

this sounds like something that would've played if 1920s germany became an anime

[@bennit111]

1920???

[@pataynasiboni]

@@bennit111 weimar germany

[@tigers2515]

In zwei Tagen vier Videos wunderbar!!

[@luigidelneri7090]

Small child: Thälmannpionier Young boy: FDJ-funktionär Full grown man: STASI Jokes aside, I have strange feelings for the DDR: half of myself is ashamed by its dark side, but the other half thinks "ABC Die beste Armee DEF ein richtige Treffer" in a Red Prussian loop

[@hohesc8364]

Stasi wasnt more evil than the American or West German Secret Police. We Just know what they did. We dont really know what American and West German Secret Police do

[@Oppenheimer1945]

My grandma was a IM (Inofizieller Mitarbeiter) and her Brother tried to flee over the wall when he was in the NVA

[@jockson7574]

NATO, Pakistan, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, and west Germany: let’s save Afghanistan! Warsaw Pact, east Germany, and India:

[@kingflo1.0]

War estz skeptisch klingt aber nicht schlecht gut gemacht doktor ludwig 👏🇩🇪👋👏👌

[@thesenate933]

I love this

[@fursuits]

I am addicted to this song

[@StonoFox]

Truly one of the songs ever

[@daniel1231727]

Jojo part 9 FDJOJO theme song

[@paulobetrugo6009]

Das beste Lied seit dem Ableben von Beethoven !

[@brummigb.2863]

Herrlich

[@rowingodwinson6250]

Bro wtf this slaps!

[@Daniel-sz8gh]

Can someone name a few german🇩🇪 pop singers? (aside from thomas anders/modern talking) , austrian 🇦🇹 too. Thank you.

[@glenhardy4770]

+Daniel Nena and Lena Meyer-Landrut, both are awesome!

[@SebiKurac]

For Austrian we also have Pizzera und Jaus, Wolfgang Ambros, Wanda, Hubert von Goisern and STS

[@valiciprian2061]

😂😂😂😂Romanian here. Very cool. I have old vynils with german singers from DDR. My favourite is Frank Shoebel.

[@romuluslee9252]

It is surprising that there are pop songs in community country

[@citizenfoffie7605]

There's plenty. Art is more incentivized and rewarded under socialism.

Why?

[@Mr.Score2]

Inferior Pop : K-POP J-POP (Modern) V-POP (Modern) And Others... Superior Pop G-POP (German Empire, 3rd Reich And East German) R-POP (Modern) S-POP (Old One) And Also Others, Maybe P-POP (WW2, Warsaw Uprising And Folk)

[@jannisjussios5396]

It’s a satire song from the late 90s

[@OnixdroiidArts]

This is a satire but it become a real masterpiece and a enjoyable to communist and contras

[@BigGrinner]

Danke Dr Ludwig

[@blue_autumn]

USSR German anime opening

[@democraticgermanyball390]

Guten tag

[@sneezyserena]

Why do the band refer to the Warsaw Pact as "Warsawapacht" rather than "Warschauer Pakt"? Surely "Pacht" means a lease of a building rather than a pact, and "Warsawa" looks like a misspelling of the Polish name for the city (Warszawa) which in German would be Warschau.

[@dvv18]

Because it's *Warszawapakten* in Swedish.

[@dr.ludwig]

They just changed the word as they wanted so it rhymes XD

[@akramgimmini8165]

Wirklich Interessantes Lied xD

[@james_poika3186]

This song slaps.

[@uberreaktor4836]

Ich kann echt nicht sagen ob das ernsthaft oder Satire ist. Aber der Beat klatscht, das ist klar

[@dr.ludwig]

Satire^^

[@DarthNoox]

Very interesting

[@persianpatriot9690]

Can we get "Jugend Erwach" Next time Herr Doktor?🤔❤️

[@dr.ludwig]

We will make some DDR songs for sure.

[@simbachvazo6530]

Thank you Ludwig, the video from Omnistar got blocked under my school’s wifi, as ironic as it is for satire of a youth organization. This has become too catchy for me to not listen to.

[@BCSchmerker]

*FDJ (FREIE DEUTГCHE JUGEND) / IFA WARTBURG* (Plattenmeiſter album PM 020 _Im Dienſte des Гoзialiſmus,_ track 1) (Heinз Klinger/Rolf Kempinſki) Der Verlag, GeMA

[@stefanfrank4043]

Ist das Genossin Merkel vorne links?

[@yuuki2507]

Wieso hört sich das nach einen Anime Opening an? Vor allem bei der stellen "Eins,zwei, drei,die beste Partei "

[@linfordwalter9528]

Interestingly, IFA Wartburg added this video to their official playlist for this album

[@ninjagamingxplayz6585]

Why does this song sound like a song played in a kids TV show

[@atreides386]

GEM

[@Entonyplay]

У меня одного слезы на глазах?

[@peppertrout]

Sounds like music from the Tatooine cantina.

[@hinrichhuber6165]

Also, ich lache mich zu Tode mit diesem Text...

[@t.k.3349]

Habe mich dazu entschlossen, heute mal zu schweigen..😁

[@Andrea-1516]

🤐🤫😀

[@t.k.3349]

@@Andrea-1516 🤐🤐🤐🤐.. 👍🏻😂😂😂😂

[@weiterimtext8134]

Versprochen? Gebrochen.

[@t.k.3349]

@@weiterimtext8134 Stimmt 👍🏻😁 Hab ja schon wieder was gesagt.. äh geschrieben 🙊🙈.. 😂

[@dottore3870]

Something tells me this particular upload won't be regarded as "controversial", hateful or racist. A song praising a criminal oppressive regime that spied on every citizen can be tolerated by KZbin censors. However a song praising the Kaiser, a thousand year old battle, or a soldier longing for her girlfriend in a blooming meadow, well, that cannot be tolerated and should be erased from memory for ever!

[@ccplaysger8858]

Well while I don’t blame you for you views upon the existing discrimination against German culture committed by KZbin, I must tell you that this song was neither written in the GDR nor it is a pure propaganda song. It was written in the late 90s by a Swedish experimental band and I think also in a satirical intention.

[@tradgroyper3806]

cope and sneedth

[@Communist1945.]

GDR was best country I lived in. Cope and seethe

[@therealhariseldon]

the GDR did nothing wrong, stay mad fascist

[@victorvaldes9856]

ok, now cope

[@ob1kenobi748]

An absolute banger

[@schizokiri]

It’s so hard to tell whether or not this song is satire, so many of the lines are just incredibly funny but also people genuinely believe in that sometimes

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis]

I think it's not meant as a mockery but also not completly serious. The artists are probably atleast sympatisers of socialism/communism

[@Linnie-nj6vw]

@@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis Its from a Swedish band ...

[@chickenusgoddus464]

​@@Linnie-nj6vw a band of from what I heard socialist swedes.....

[@adicherie]

I'm anti-communist but damn this song is catchy

[@viktortarasov7809]

Perfect!

[@bubbles.mp4]

once i got my gym teacher to play this

[@dr.ludwig]

It's indeed uplifting and funny XD

[@glatteraal2678]

Welcher Anime ist das?

[@manuelschlotterflosse1459]

Der Manga heißt "Das Kapital".

[@osadnik7580]

@@manuelschlotterflosse1459 Ich habe gedacht, dass das Light Novel war.

[@manuelschlotterflosse1459]

@@osadnik7580 Kann sein, jedenfalls gibt es auch eine Live-Action-Version.

[@Hashiriya985]

Brazilian here, we're next in line for the revolution. i promise i'll play this and Arbeiter von Wien as loud as i can!

[@waterholic9271]

It's literally a parody :D

[@__KursK__]

For real?

[@Hashiriya985]

idc still a banger@@waterholic9271

[@Hashiriya985]

@@__KursK__ for real!

[@__KursK__]

Whats the reasons you guys want to go socialist?@@Hashiriya985

[@Niko-yp1tm]

Sounds like its from a anime this song slaps tho

[@bartoszjaneczko4329]

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