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Originally Posted by Road Hog
"[I]t’s important to remember that [Pete] Seeger, once an avowed Stalinist, was a political singer devoted to a sinister political system--a position he held long after the Soviet experiment drenched itself in blood and collapsed in ignomin"[I]t’s important to remember that [Pete] Seeger, once an avowed Stalinist, was a political singer devoted to a sinister political system--a position he held long after the Soviet experiment drenched itself in blood and collapsed in ignominy
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That can sound a little simplistic or jingoistic, but it's true he crafted sing-along songs that could easily turn into mantras toward virulent Communist/Stalinist movements.
I've loved the music, and took the message with a grain of salt. I thought it important to remember, as Johnny Cash intoned in gblow's post above 'nobody's perfect.' Occasionally worried that the grain of salt was a salt lick for many.
OMFG, my baby learned in a government school that because WWII was an important undertaking he's excited to go off an die some day!!!