[brewcrew]

So is "The East Is Red". However, the political murder of 100 million people is a high price to pay for a couple of spiffy songs.

What's your point? Can you not appreciate something just for what it is?

[TexasRepublic]

So is "The East Is Red". However, the political murder of 100 million people is a high price to pay for a couple of spiffy songs.

What's your point? Can you not appreciate something just for what it is?

I do appreciate the beautiful melodies for what they are, but for me me hearing them is bittersweet, knowing they are the crowning expressions of monstrous regimes that killed 100 million people. Those songs also have lyrics expressing ideas that are murderously at odds with me. I'll give another example - could a Jew that lived through the Holocaust listen indifferently to the beautiful strains of "Deutschland Uber Alles" without remembering some bitter associations? I grew up in the cold war period and have no love for Communists, including the one in the White House. Some music conjures up such memories. That's my point.