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The concert was amazing! There were quite a few people, and the dancing was truly wild, especially at the beginning and the end! I had seen them at the Traffic last year too, but in Milan they definitely killed it more.

I’ve always preferred the Specials too. Has anyone of you seen them live at the Alcatraz in Milan?! (I was there)

Who knows what it’s like to be there to see...stuff that not even Iggy Pop would probably...

Well done, damn it! This is exactly what we needed! An absolute and total banger. One of my all-time favorite live performances. Truly tear-jerking. NINETEEN SIXTY-FOUR

I'm here, but it's not really intriguing me much...

Certo, invia pure il testo e procederò con la traduzione.

Yes, but you see? It's precisely an excuse! I mean the ideology! Those actions were based on emotional reactions, such as fear, revenge... they embraced "ideology" opportunistically (I'm still talking about informers and various people, not certainly the communists, who are indeed slaves to Soviet ideology). The same things eventually happened in Italy, as I mentioned in a previous comment! Anyway, as much as I may feel sorry for what they went through, what you told me, in my opinion, diminishes the possibility that they can evaluate events objectively precisely because they suffered through all those events themselves! They can never have an absolutely independent point of view... like the people who still say today that life was better when things were worse, etc... they may not be entirely wrong, but they certainly have a partial perspective; I don’t know if you understand what I’m trying to say... it’s easier to accept and thus understand certain things from the outside! It's just my opinion, and maybe you think differently, and well, there’s not much to be done about it! I don’t want to arrive at a Truth, especially because, anti-Socratic as I may be, opinions are one of the most legitimate things in this world, even though you might not have thought so before (for the record... I am an individualistic anarchist; I mentioned it in a comment a few years ago, but I don't like to define myself too much...).

PS: To clarify.. by human actions, I mean actions driven by a morality, whether instinctual (whether negative or positive). It's clear that the actions of the crazies of the Chinese '60s are also "human," but they were alienated by ideology and thus not individually free, so to speak.

Alright, but I really have nothing to say about that. However, those who gather under that flag (of the South) clearly cannot evaluate things objectively. It makes me think that theirs is more of a spontaneous reaction to the historical process they have experienced, rather than a full awareness of the historical-political-economic relevance of the events at that time, don’t you think?! (I’m just hypothesizing, I’m asking you because you know them). To return to the comment before the one you left... do you think that if South Vietnam-USA had won, the informers, the distorters of liberation, etc., wouldn’t have existed? (I think similar demonstrations also occurred during our partisan resistance, which I strongly defend, yes), but those are cases, not a general behavior that can be explained by a real ideological subjugation like, for example, what happened during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (that was true ideological madness). What you mentioned are human actions, despite their baseness and indecency. Unjustifiable, clearly, but understandable. (Oh, but the comments to respond aren’t working for me, or is it a matter of length?)

P.S... I would be happy too if it was still called Saigon... I mean, do you think I'm an apologist for international Marxism-Leninism, completely devoid of any doubt about the marvelous, legendary, and dialectical victory of the DRVN?! I don't know what you think I believe or think or am... lol