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A rant about "patriotism" in today's Poland [60]
Four years back, one cheesy Swedish power metal band called Sabaton released an album titled 'The Art of War'. Among the thirteen or so songs there, one was titled '40:1' and was about the Battle of Wizna in which a Polish defence force managed to hold out against the overwhelming Nazi offence for three days.
Naturally, someone, somewhere in Poland heard about it and informed the media about it. A gigantic foocking craze about this band was started then, and it pretty much continues to stay this way. When they released a new album two years ago, one of the songs was titled 'Uprising', and was about the Warsaw Uprising. Of course, everyone started cumming all over it, even the video for the song was shown for the first time exclusively on Polish TV during the anniversary of the Uprising. Generally, the media attention this band was getting is absurd.
Now, where am I heading with this? Well, what angered me most and continues to disgust me, was all those new-found patriots that suddenly started popping up with 'OMG 40:1 POLAND!1'. They also kept whining all the foocking time 'why are Polish artists not singing about their glorious history?!'.
And here comes what pissed me off the most lately. One fairly popular Polish band called Elektryczne Gitary released a new album dedicated exclusively to historical themes. There are songs about the Solidarity movement, about the Battle of Tannenberg, about the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, the Polish squadron during the Battle of England etc, generally they're 'anniversary' songs. It was released on the 2nd of November 2010. I learned about it yesterday. Found it the damned discount bin.
This is my biggest gripe. Elektryczne Gitary are not some sort of an 'underground' band, and pretty much
everyone here knows them, they even have a couple of 'cult hits'. The album itself was even done in cooperation with the ministry of culture or something like that, apparently. And nobody bloody knows about it. Nobody TALKED about it. I haven't seen ANY articles about it on any news site, I haven't heard about it neither in the radio nor in the TV. WHY? Why is some completely unknown Swedish foocking band popping out of nowhere getting *** on their faces because of a single song, while a Polish band does more than that and gets absolutely no recognition?
I'll tell you why. Because it's not about 'glorifying the history'. No. It's about getting outside foocking recognition. 'Hey, look! There are some filthy Swedish peasants talking about our superior historical heritage, like the way it should be!'. Nobody actually gives a foock about history itself, it's all about 'WOOOOOOO WE'RE BEING NOTICED
And faggots will still keep talking about Polish artists not singing about Polish history. These are some of those times when I'm utterly disgusted with this nation. Goddamn.