| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Might be related to the well known phrase by Martin Niemoller: "First they come for the Socialist"? What the world did or refrained from doing had terrible consequences. Britain and France helped Franco indirectly and Germany and Italy directly. Later came Russia. No country (Except for Mexico perhpas) took side with the legitime government. What happened next was WWII and we all know how that went. So if you tolerate this your children will be next (And in fact they were). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_... |
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| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[user1951:12625] Absolutely right. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[entropy125:12624] Definitely the true meaning of the song is how our apathy allows the "wrongs" in the world happen evetually coming back to us and our descendents. | |
| Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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DarKEther is right, the Civil War is a lot more complex than it seems. THe only reason communists took over was because of the Nationalists being supported by Germany and Italy. I think that the message of the song is that everyone looked aside when the war started except for the brigadist. If the majority of people included governments (Britain, France etc.) had helped the Republicans who were elected by the people then it would have been a different story. There is a special place in hell for those who remain aside as Dante said. |
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