VOLKSMACHT, Chile Venceremos, 1974
Posted: April 16, 2010 Filed under: 70´s, Berlin Records, Chile, Political Records | Tags: Chile, Chile-Komittee West Berlin, Venceremos 1 Comment »
Again I found this last week for 50 cents in a local thrift store. It was released by a group of Berlin communists in support of the Chilean people who were massacred by the military Junta in 1974. The Chilean coup d´état of General Pinochet was a major political cause to fight against for the political left. In Eastern-Germany it was state-policy.
Chile Venceremos (we shall overcome) is a folk song but the singing is very similar to that of Ton Steine Scherben, Germany´s most radical-leftist Krautrock group. It features some cool commie lyrics about overthrowing the capitalist system and fighting violently to the end…
VOLKSMACHT, Chile Venceremos, 1974
Interviev im Leichenschauhaus und vor dem Nationalstadion Santiagos
About me:
My name is Andreas Michalke. I´m a cartoonist from Berlin, Germany and I like collecting records. Most of the records I find in thrift stores or at flea markets here in Berlin. I like a lot of music but I thought I`d focus on odd German records. Preferably with cartoon covers.
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Yes, it’s a great record, I have it, too … More of this choice, please and less of awful Schlager !