The last month has been especially turbulent in Iraq. More than 300 people have died and thousands have been injured in a wave of protests fueled by corruption, social chasms and lack of hope of their young people. In the middle of the barricades and skirmishes, a song has become the anthem of indignation: a local adaptation of Bella ciao , the Italian song that endorsed the Italian anti-fascist resistance and has now rejuvenated La casa de papel .

" O partigiano, portami via / O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao / O partigiano, portami via ", reads the original song. In the Iraqi version, whose video clip runs like wildfire on the networks of the Arab country, the protagonists appear in several scenes accompanied by the characters of the Spanish television series, a planetary success.

In an Iraqi dialect, the protagonists criticize the regime born after the American invasion of the country and the decline of Saddam Hussein and his lack of freedom. They denounce that their rights have been systematically stolen by decades of corruption and bad governance. Along with the protagonists of the video clip, several individuals are dressed in red monkeys and rudimentary masks of Salvador Dalí who try to imitate the robbers of La casa de papel .

The images reflect the despair of a generation condemned by the absence of job opportunities and the aftermath of years of sectarian violence and fighting against the self-styled Islamic State. "The Bella ciao in the Iraqi way", as they have baptized the song, summarizes their proclamations and their call to the barricades, standing since the beginning of October and still able to stand up to the authorities with cuts of roads and ports and the declaration of successive general strikes despite the relentless government repression.

The Bella ciao (Goodbye, beautiful, in Spanish) that now inspires Iraqi protesters was, first, a popular Italian song. Adopted later by the Italian anti-fascist resistance between 1943 and 1945 against Benito Mussolini and the Nazi troops, Spanish fiction - followed with devotion in the Arab world - renewed its popularity against the backdrop of the multimillion-dollar assault on the National Currency and Stamp Factory , the plot of his first season.

Iraq, immersed in its biggest institutional crisis in years, thus joins the geography that Bella ciao has turned into the tones of its population's challenge to the elite that subdues it. "And this is the flower of the partisan, / Goodbye beautiful, goodbye beautiful, goodbye beautiful, goodbye, goodbye. / This is the flower of the partisan, / died for freedom. / And this is the flower of the partisan, / died for the freedom".

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