To preface the post: I don't have anything against the song itself. It's a beautiful and historically significant song about Italian antifascist partisans.
My point is that it's been marketed by fucking Netflix show Money Heist, it's been emptied and hollowed of all its meaning, and EVEN if it hadn't, it's again glorifying the role of western antifascists instead of those who won the fucking war: the Soviets.
It was NOT Italian Partisans who SAVED EUROPE from fascism. It was the Bolsheviks. I do not want a world where Bella Ciao isn't sung, I want a world in which for every time we sing Bella Ciao, we sing 10 times Katyuscha, the Soviet Anthem, Svyaschyonnaya Voyna, or Krasnaya Armiya Vsyekh Sil'nyey. The Soviets were the only country that sold fucking weapons and sent trained soldiers, tank drivers and pilots to Republican Spain (the country where Money Heist was made), and yet we're commercializing songs about the Italian partisans. FUCK ME SIDEWAYS.
One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma's coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.
Also don't pay attention to the ludicrous amounts of time, money and violence that I put into making sure those critiques only stay as critiques.