Befrielsearméns sång
1971 · Befria BS-3 · Sweden
- Artist
- FNL-Grupperna
- Title
- Befrielsearméns sång
- Release
- Till Det Kämpande Vietnam
- Year
- 1971
- Label
- Befria # BS-3
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — European Songs
Swedish. Anti-war. (1) Befria Södern # BS-3 "For the struggling Vietnam is an album released by The United FNL groups, the publisher Liberate the South. The disc cover, booklet and the envelope containing nothing but photos of Vietnamese, armed liberation struggle and the writer Jan Myrdal has written a small text on the disc's back where he notes that: "In its war of liberation against the invaders from the United States beat the Indochinese peoples now back, they go against victory. This is their justification for war against the rapacious imperialism is a historical turning point. That was the ruling of the world's most powerful industrial nation that gave his troops the order to crush some poor and vulnerable people who were about to fight his way free from colonialism. The weak defeat the strong!" (2) A1 Till det kämpande Vietnam (To the Embattled Vietnam) A2 Sång om de indokinesiska folken (Song of the Indochinese Peoples) - Cambodia reference A3 Vietnams folk står enat (Vietnamese People Stand United) A4 Vilken president (Which President) - reference to Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Cambodia, Laos A5 Herr ambassadör (Mr. Ambassador) - anti-capitalist, anti-American…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
Song groups of De Förenade FNL-grupperna (DFFG / United NLF Groups), the Swedish solidarity movement with the Vietnamese NLF; active late 1960s to mid 1970s, releasing albums on the movement's own Befria Södern label. Based in Sweden (groups in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala). [Source: Wikipedia / Discogs]