Cristicchi defends Pausini: ” Do not sing ‘Bella ciao’ does not mean being right ”

” I can understand Pausini’s choice, there are singers who do not want to declare themselves politically and ‘Bella ciao’ is a song that has often been demonized and put at the center of numerous controversies. However, this does not mean that Pausini is necessarily on the right ”. So Simone Cristicchi at Adnkronos on the social controversies that arose following Laura Pausini’s choice not to sing ‘Bella ciao’ on a Spanish TV show ” because it is a political song “, explained the singer. ” ‘ Bella ciao ‘is a song that belongs to everyone – he underlines – so it has no political color. If people studied history they would know that that song represents not only the left partisan faction but also a series of other partisan groups that were not necessarily leftist. But if Pausini had sung it, other controversies would probably have sparked, as happened to me with ‘Magazzino 18’, when I was attacked by the far left because I told the crimes committed on the eastern border in the postwar period by the partisans di Tito – recalls Cristicchi – I have been called a fascist for years not only on social networks but also in theaters. Having said that – he continues – I have sung many times ‘Bella ciao’, the p rimo may together with the choir of the miners of Santafiora and on many other occasions where the sacrifice of the Italian partisans in the struggle for liberation from Nazi-fascism was remembered. I wouldn’t have had any problems singing it ”, concludes Cristicchi. (by Alisa Toaff)