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Thread #154369   Message #3974450
Posted By: Jack Campin
01-Feb-19 - 05:20 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Anzac Day? / We Would Remember Them
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Anzac Day? / We Would Remember Them
I just got sent a link to this song recorded by Melihat Gülses, Lament for Salonica. Another part of the same campaign. The Allies decided to turn the city into a battlefield; it never recovered and its ancient multi-ethnic culture was obliterated by decades of state-sponsored racism. The immediate casualties were mostly Bulgarian soldiers - 200,000 dead, nearly twice as many as on both sides at Gallipoli. Gülses's song is about the "third army" of women and children driven into exile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJGWTOxdbk