"Jim - I certainly did not like sitting through Ewan McColl & Peggy Seeger singing "Ho ho Ho Chi Min" and such songs in 1971."
I wasn't particulary fond of the song either; both Ewan and Peggy wrote far better political songs, yet they, among others I know, were constantly being pressurised into not singing ANY political songs - ie were victims of political censorship, or should I say, left-wing political censorship. In context, Kipling's hymns of praise to the Imperialism that sent a generation of young people to be slaughteed in the obscenity that was the trenches of WW1 were just as political as Ho Chi Mhin, and far more lethal in the effect they had.
And as I've said, I've yet to hear of such censorship applies to the songs lauding killing for pleasure.
If you don't like political songs, avoid them, just as I attempt to do with songs that offend me.
Jim Carroll