Comrade, comrade...
20. 3. 2010 / Karel Košťál
Singer Jean Ferrat, who protested against the Soviet-led invasion that ended the experiment of "socialism with a human face" of the Prague Spring of 1968, has died.
Jean Tenenbaum, as went his real name, was born in the periphery of Paris. His father died in Auschwitz in 1942. Jean was saved by the French communist resistance organization. Ferrat all his life maintained that he was a "communist anarchist", who never had a party membership card.
The singer often protested against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Kremlin allies and the following politics of appeasement of society, called Normalization. He loved the word "comrade" (camarade in French), exclaiming it has a "cherry color and the color of May flowers".
On August 1968 that was different:
"What are you doing here, comrade/it's just turned 5pm/the August Moon over Prague became dark/comrade, comrade..."
Camarade
Jean Ferrat
Album: Jean Ferrat - Vol.1 (1999)
C'est un joli nom Camarade
C'est un joli nom tu sais
Qui marie cerise et grenade
Aux cent fleurs du mois de mai
Pendant des années Camarade
Pendant des années tu sais
Avec ton seul nom comme aubade
Les lèvres s'épanouissaient
Camarade Camarade
C'est un nom terrible Camarade
C'est un nom terrible à dire
Quand, le temps d'une mascarade
Il ne fait plus que frémir
Que venez-vous faire Camarade
Que venez-vous faire ici
Ce fut à cinq heures dans Prague
Que le mois d'août s'obscurcit
Camarade Camarade
C'est un joli nom Camarade
C'est un joli nom tu sais
Dans mon cœur battant la chamade
Pour qu'il revive à jamais
Se marient cerise et grenade
Aux cent fleurs du mois de mai
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