Channel Title: Cortex Radio Channel Description: This channel is dedicated to uploading historical and patriotic hymns, essentially preserving history. The music uploaded here does not represent the worldview of the creator. This channel is not associated with any forms of racism, extremism or fascism. <video> "Tear the Fascists Down"- American Anti-Fascist Song Description: This video commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings, better known as D-Day. The landings took place on the 6th of June, 1944, and allowed the Allied Powers to successfully liberate parts of northern France. The landings allowed the liberation of France and other occupied nations in the Western Front. May the millions who perished fighting fascism, whether in Europe or the Pacific, forever be remembered. The song, "Tear the Fascists Down" is a masterpiece written, composed and sung by Woody Guthrie in 1944. The song has appeared in pop culture, like the "Masters of the Air" series on Apple TV. It remains a popular anti-fascist song. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #worldwar2 #ww2 #dday #80thanniversary #dday80 #normandylanding #american </video> <video> "If Tomorrow Brings War" - Soviet Pre-War Song [WARTIME VERSION] [1941] Description: "If Tomorrow Brings War", "Если завтра война", is a famous Soviet song from 1938, which was about a potential future war that the Soviets would be able to fight off. The invasion of the Soviet Union by the Axis powers on the 22nd of June, 1941, caught the Soviets by surprise, and pushed them up to Moscow before the ultimate Soviet victory came. At least 25-27 million Soviet soldiers and civilians died over the course of the war. This version was presumably recorded in 1941, after the invasion began. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #ww2 #operationbarbarossa #easternfront #invasionofthesovietunion #nazigermany #wehrmacht #redarmy </video> <video> "Заздравная Песнь Сталину" - Soviet Song about Stalin Description: This video marks the 145th Birth Anniversary of Joseph Stalin. An interesting thing to note is that despite the fact that Stalin was born in 1878, 1879 is what Stalin seems to have accepted as the year of his birth, as his 50th and 70th birthdays were celebrated in 1929 and 1949 respectively (instead of 1928 and 1948). This was a song made specifically for Stalin's 70th birthday, composed in 1949 by Vano Muradeli, and written by A. Salnikov. Discord: https://discord.gg/ay7yx5avSt #ussr #stalin #josephstalin #sovietunion #iosifstalin #ivstalin </video> <video> "জন ব্রাউনের দেহ" (John Brown's Body) - Bengali Song about John Brown Description: On this day, on the 2nd of December, 1859, an American martyr was made, possibly America's first martyr. John Brown was hung on charges of treason and murder for his attempts to ignite a slave rebellion throughout the what would later become the Confederacy when he was captured at Harpers Ferry. "John Brown's Body", an already popular song, but in Bengali. The lyrics were written and sung by the (Indian) Bengali singer Hemango Biswas, a communist and heavily involved in the anti-colonial movement during the 1930s. This song was a part of his album, Shankhachil, on which I could not find a lot of detail on, it appears to have been released in 2003. The album includes an ode to Paul Robeson, the American political activist and singer, as well as The Internationale. The lyrics were very difficult to transcribe and translate (despite myself being a Bengali speaker), and so there may be small errors. I have made a few choices with the translation, sticking to a more poetic tone than a literal one. Discord: https://discord.gg/ay7yx5avSt #johnbrown #harpersferry #virginia #americancivilwar #abolitionist </video> <video> "Roter Wedding"- German Communist Song (Rare Version) Description: “Roter Wedding” is a song of the German workers’ movement and was originally the performance song of the propaganda troupe Der Rote Wedding. The melody was composed by Hanns Eisler and the lyrics are by Erich Weinert. It was written in 1929, and this version is the original, unmodified version. Erich Weinert was sued over the song in 1931. He was accused of "inciting class hatred, blasphemy, and disparaging the republican form of government." Fortunately, Weinert was acquitted because the statute of limitations had expired. The original audio was taken from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXpnb6hWSYA The second stanza refers to the events of Blutmai (Bloody May), and it was a series of demonstrations and political violence which occurred when the Communist Party of Germany held May Day marches (from the 1st–3rd of May) in defiance of a ban on public gatherings in Berlin ordered by the city's police chief Karl Zörgiebel—who is mentioned in the song—of the Social Democratic Party. There are clear allusions to the fact that the song was sung on a theater stage: "What we are playing is class struggle," "we are pulling back the curtain," "and so the play takes its course." Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #germany #german #communist #socialist #rotfront #ernstthalmann #thalmann #rotfrontkampferbund #kpd </video> <video> Hitler burns the Reichstag (Ernst Thälmann – Führer seiner Klasse) [CLIP] Description: Ernst Thälmann – Leader of his Class is a German film biography by the GDR film production company DEFA Potsdam-Babelsberg, which was made in 1955 under the direction of Kurt Maetzig . The first part, "Ernst Thälmann – Son of his Class", was released in 1954. Hitler speaks about Nero, referring to Nero's alleged role in the Great Fire of Rome. It is debatable who actually burnt the Reichstag, as Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found inside during the fire, leading many to believe he caused it. Whether Hitler caused the fire or not, he certainly used it to his advantage, and secured his iron grip over Germany. The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday, 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the alleged culprit; however, Hitler attributed the fire to Communist agitators. He used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. The first report of the fire came shortly after 9:00 p.m., when a Berlin fire station received an alarm call.[2] By the time police and firefighters arrived, the Chamber of Deputies (the lower house) was engulfed in flames. The police conducted a thorough search inside the building and found Van der Lubbe, who was arrested. After the Fire Decree was issued, the police — now controlled by Hitler's Nazi Party — made mass arrests of communists, including all of the communist Reichstag delegates. This severely crippled communist participation in the 5 March elections. After the 5 March elections, the absence of the communists allowed the Nazi Party to expand their plurality in the Reichstag, greatly assisting the Nazi seizure of total power. On 9 March 1933 the Prussian state police arrested Bulgarians Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev, and Blagoy Popov, who were known Comintern operatives (though the police did not know it then, Dimitrov was head of all Comintern operations in Western Europe). Ernst Torgler, head of the Communist Party, had surrendered to police on 28 February. The responsibility for the Reichstag fire remains a topic of debate and research. Some historians believe, based on archive evidence, that the arson had been planned and ordered by the Nazis as a false flag operation; indeed, the Gleiwitz Incident in 1939 that granted Hitler emergency powers and paved the way for World War II proves that such a tactic was not out of the question for the Nazis. The building remained in its damaged state until it was partially repaired from 1961 to 1964 and completely restored from 1995 to 1999. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #reichstag #thalmann #german #communist #reichstagfire </video> <video> "Ballad of Ho Chi Minh"- English Song about Ho Chi Minh Description: Happy Birthday to Uncle Ho! The song is sung in (British) English, but is sung by a Scottish singer, Ewan MacColl. The Ballad of Ho Chi Minh, an upbeat folk song that praised Ho for his leadership and devotion to the people of Vietnam. MacColl was inspired by the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu and frustrated with Western propaganda that painted Ho Chi Minh as a nascent tyrant. According to the lyrics of MacColl’s ballad, Ho Chi Minh is a leader who seeks to “drive invaders from his land” in order to secure “peace and freedom” for the Vietnamese people. MacColl’s song became popular around the world, particularly in North Vietnam (as Vietnamese lyrics were written). Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #hochiminhcity #hochiminh #vietnam #vietnamwar #vietnamwarmusic #uncleho #vietminh </video> <video> "Der Offene Aufsmarsch"- East German Anti-American Song Description: The original version, "Der Heimliche Aufsmarsch" (The Secret Deployment), was a German anti-fascist song which was popularised by Hanns Eisler, who arranged the song, and Ernst Busch, who sang it. It was originally a poem written by Erich Weinert. A new version, "Der Offene Aufsmarsch" (The Open Deployment), was made 1957 to suit the Cold War and had a heavy anti-NATO and anti-war sentiment, despite being a NVA song. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #eastgermany #german #communist #antinato #antiwar #ernstbusch </video> <video> "El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido"- Cuban Socialist Song Description: "El Pueblo Unido" is a popular Chilean socialist song, is widely considered a global protest song. This rendition is one sung by a Cuban choir. This video is for the 51st anniversary of the coup in Chile (which happened in 1973). The democratically elected Allende government was overthrown by the Chilean military under General Pinochet, and the coup received support from the CIA. Discord: https://discord.gg/ay7yx5avSt #salvadorallende #chile #911 #socialism #communism #antiimperialism #cuba #fidelcastro </video> <video> "Bravely, We will March into Battle" - Soviet Revolutionary Song (Rare Version) Description: Disclaimer: The map may not be entirely accurate. None of the footage used is authentic footage of the October Revolution, but from the movie "October", better known as "Ten Days that Shook the World" from 1928. The song was originally an Imperial Russian song from 1914, made for the First World War. It was composed by Maximilian Oseevich Steinberg, based on a text by Alexander Kolchak. The lyrics were altered to make a pro-White Army version during the Russian Civil War, "We will March into Battle for Holy Russia", from which the Soviet version emerged; it had different lyrics, and was titled "Bravely, We will March into Battle (for the power of the Soviets)". An altered anti-Semitic version would also be made later by Vlasov's "Russian 'Liberation' Army". The Soviet version of the song remained very popular following the formation of the USSR. Discord: https://discord.gg/ay7yx5avSt #russiancivilwar #russianrevolution #octoberrevolution #lenin #communism #redarmy #soviet #revolutionary </video> <video> "Marshal Zhukov and Victory"- Soviet Victory Day Song Description: Happy Victory Day! This video commemorates the tens of millions of Soviet people and soldiers who died fighting against Nazism, and contributed greatly to ending the Second World War (better known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia and other post-Soviet states) in Europe. This song is about Marshal Zhukov, the commander who played an instrumental role in Germany's defeat in WW2, commanding the 1st Belorussian Front, and participated in numerous battles including the Battle of Berlin, and served as the governor for the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. He would later go on to serve as the Minister for Defense in 1955. He was also one of the only two people, and the first person, to receive four "Hero of the Soviet Union" awards, which was the highest distinction in the Soviet Union. He was known for his love of medals. He was later relieved of his duties and passed away on the 18th of June, 1974. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #victoryday #veday #victoryineuropeday #russian #soviet #sovietunion #zhukov #military #may9 #9may #berlin #fallofberlin #ww2 </video> <video> "I Love Chairman Mao's Works the Most"- Chinese Communist Song (毛主席的书我最爱读) Description: A Chinese Communist song from the Cultural Revolution. The line "Chairman Mao's rain has nourished me," better translates to "Chairman Mao's dew has nourished me" in Chinese, and is a play on words, as "dew" and "quotations" are homophones. The text in the image for the second verse is a quote by Mao Zedong, which reads: “The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you.” ― Mao Zedong Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #china #peoplesrepublicofchina #mao #maozedong #chairmanmao #maozhuxi #culturalrevolution #1966 #greatproletarianculturalrevolution #maoism #maoist #redguard #communist #communistpartyofchina </video> <video> Closing Scene of "Ernst Thälmann – Führer Seiner Klasse" + "Thälmannlied" Description: This video commemorates the 80th death anniversary of Ernst Thälmann, German communist and anti-fascist hero, and served as the leader (chairman) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1924 to 1933. Special thanks to @Nordbon1523, @eyraaaaaa and @Potato79207 for helping transcribe and translate :D The final part of the video does not contain clips from the film as shown here, but a screen showing production logos instead. "Ernst Thälmann – Leader of his Class" is a German film biography by the GDR film production company DEFA Potsdam-Babelsberg, which was made in 1955 under the direction of Kurt Maetzig . The first part, "Ernst Thälmann – Son of his Class", was released in 1954. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #eastgermany #thalmann #german #communist #buchenwald </video> <video> "James Connolly Was There"- Irish Socialist Song Description: An Irish socialist song about James Connolly, and specifically refers to the 1913 Dublin Lockout (the Transport Union's Strike against William Martin Murphy and other employers for the right to unionise) and also the 1915 Glasgow Rent Strike (more broadly speaking, Red Clydeside) and the Liverpool General Strike in 1911, along with the 1907 Belfast Dockers Strike which was led by James Larkin, another trade unionist of the time. James Connolly (5 June 1868 – 12 May 1916) was a Scottish born Irish republican, socialist, and trade union leader, executed for his part in the 1916 Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland. He remains an important figure both for the Irish labour movement and for Irish republicanism. He became an active socialist in Scotland, where he had been born in 1868 to Irish parents. On moving to Ireland in 1896, he established the country's first socialist party, the Irish Socialist Republican Party. It called for an Ireland independent not only of Britain's Crown and Parliament, but also of British "capitalists, landlords and financiers". From 1905 to 1910, he was a full-time organiser in the United States for the Industrial Workers of the World, choosing its syndicalism over the doctrinaire Marxism of Daniel DeLeon's Socialist Labor Party of America, to which he had been initially drawn. Returning to Ireland, he deputised for James Larkin in organising for the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, first in Belfast and then in Dublin. In Belfast, he was frustrated in his efforts to draw Protestant workers into an all-Ireland labour and socialist movement but, in the wake of the industrial unrest of 1913, acquired in Dublin what he saw as a new means of striking toward the goal of a Workers' Republic. At the beginning of 1916, he committed the union's militia, the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), to the plans of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and the Irish Volunteers, for war-time insurrection. Alongside Patrick Pearse, Connolly commanded the insurrection in Easter of that year from rebel garrison holding Dublin's General Post Office. He was wounded in the fighting and, following the rebel surrender at the end of Easter week, was executed, and martyred, along with the six other signatories to the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #ireland #irish #communist #socialist #irishrepublican #jamesconnolly </video> <video> Chinese Cultural Revolution Medley – (伟大的无产阶级文化大革命混合曲) Description: This medley consists of four songs from the Cultural Revolution, but the fourth one originated during the Great Leap Forward. 0:00 Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman (大海航行靠舵手) 1:22 The Walls of the New Thatched House are as White as Snow (新苫的房雪白的墙 ) 2:45 Our Leader, Mao Zedong (咱们的领袖毛泽东) 3:40 Chairman Mao has come to our Village (毛主席来到咱农庄) This video commemorates the 58th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution. The 16 May Notification (or Circular of May 16) was the initial political declaration on the 16th of May, 1966, announcing the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. This was originally an inner-party document but was declassified the next day and published in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC). This is when many historians consider the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to have officially begun. The Cultural Revolution itself was a major event in modern Chinese history, and many groups have different perspectives on the same. The CPC in its modern form condemns the Cultural Revolution, and following Mao Zedong's death, the Gang of Four (key figures during the GPCR), which included Mao Zedong's widow, would be arrested. Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, would commit suicide while in the hospital. She left a suicide note which stated: "Today the revolution has been stolen by the revisionist clique of Deng, Peng Zhen, and Yang Shangkun. Chairman Mao exterminated Liu Shaoqi, but not Deng, and the result of this omission is that unending evils have been unleashed on the Chinese people and nation. Chairman, your student and fighter is coming to see you!" The Cultural Revolution saw attacks on groups like intellectuals and teachers, and also historic landmarks, such as the Cemetery of Confucius and the Temple of Heaven, among others. One of China's most important missile scientists, Yao Tongbin, was beaten to death by a mob in Beijing. Despite all this, many Chinese people cherish the Cultural Revolution, especially the working class. During Deng Xiaoping's ascendancy, the government arrested and imprisoned figures who took a strongly pro-Cultural Revolution stance. For instance, in 1985, a young shoe-factory worker put up a poster at a factory in Xianyang, Shaanxi, which declared that "The Cultural Revolution was Good" and led to achievements such as "the building of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the creation of hybrid rice crops and the rise of people's consciousness." The worker was eventually sentenced to ten years in prison, where he died soon after "without any apparent cause". Since the late 1980s, China has experienced "at first a fitful and then a nationwide revival in Mao Zedong", including aspects of the Cultural Revolution. One of the student leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Shen Tong, author of Almost a Revolution, has a positive view of some aspects of the GPCR. According to Shen, the trigger for the Tiananmen hunger-strikes was a big-character poster, a form of public political discussion that gained prominence during the Cultural Revolution. Shen remarked that the travel of students from across the country to Beijing on trains and the hospitality they received from residents was reminiscent of the experiences of Red Guards. Public discussion is still limited. The Chinese government continues to prohibit news organizations from mentioning details, and online discussions and books about the topic are subject to official scrutiny. Textbooks abide by the "official view" (negative view) of the events. Many government documents from the 1960s onward remain classified. The Cultural Revolution is barely mentioned in historical exhibits at the National Museum of China in Beijing. Despite inroads by prominent sinologists, independent scholarly research is discouraged. Discord server: https://discord.gg/wkk5DhXRmY Tags: #china #peoplesrepublicofchina #mao #maozedong #chairmanmao #maozhuxi #culturalrevolution #1966 #greatproletarianculturalrevolution #maoism #maoist #redguard #communist #communistpartyofchina </video>

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