Spain triumphs! Fascist anthem hails Spanish badminton champ The Badminton World Federation (BWF) evidently needs to update its international anthems CD library after it played the old-school fascist Spanish Royal March to hail Carolina Marín's successful defence of her world women's singles title on Sunday. Marín, who saw off India's Saina Nehwal in the world championship final in …
Yes, the current one without words.
The article itself states:
Written in 1928 for the already-existing Royal March, the words were adopted by Franco and chums following their 1939 victory in the Spanish Civil War. They were finally consigned to the dustbin of history in 1978, and since then the anthem has been played without words.
The words could have been written by Sacha Baron Cohen
Not very long ago, a victory by athletes of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was greeted by the anthem of South Korea (The Republic of Korea). Sadly, it's all too easy to mess up this sort of thing.
I remember a friend who had trouble mailing a parcel to Botswana (the former British Bechuanaland) because he had it confused with the South African Bantustan of Bophuthatswana. And I had to find out that Burkina Faso used to be Upper Volta before I could find it on a map.
>That's actually kinda Marxist-proletarian,
That was my first thought, but then Left and Right can be pretty similar in practise, with appeals to the "hard working mums", er, I mean, "enthusiastic agriculturalists and industrious factory workers."
It basically boils down to to labels, but whatever they say, "We the elite are taking control." These days they don't even bother appending "... for your own good."
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