At the CGIL in Bologna they explain it as a mistake by the disc-jockey, but the musical incident that happened yesterday evening at the CGIL congress in Bologna is creating embarrassment and controversy: when the newly elected secretary Michele Bulgarelli was proclaimed and took the stage in the presence of the secretary general Maurizio Landini, the anthem of the Soviet Union played from the speakers at the Arci club in San Lazzaro di Savena, which also has the same music as the current anthem of Russia.
However, the version released yesterday evening was the most famous one from the Soviet Union, sung by the Red Army choir, and not the one with the text updated in the Putin era.
It would have been, according to what they explain to the union, a misunderstanding with the direction: the proclamation of the secretary should in fact have started the anthem of the International, the historic song of world socialism that has its origins in the Paris Commune.
But something went wrong at the console and the Anthem of the Soviet Union started playing instead of the International.
The Facebook page of the pensioners' union published a video that resumed the scene, then hastily removed when we noticed the slip that everyone had initially missed.
But not to the center-right, in particular the Brothers of Italy who attack: "Landini apologize - says the group leader in the Fdi Chamber Tommaso Foti - and publicly condemn what happened last night in Bologna. It is an offense to the many victims of the Ukrainian people who they fight for freedom. And Landini, who was present at the event, should immediately distance himself from it".
