Talk:Viva la revolución

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American bias, massively so![edit]

Shouldn't this article be headed instead "Vive la révolution" because, all things considered, that is the original and much better known expression! "Viva la revolución", that's a rather obscure and almost unknown version, for anyone who lives outside the Americas. I certainly didn't know there was a Spanish version of "Vive la révolution", before visiting this Wikipedia page. I realise the French revolution was inspired by the American revolution, but that was the revolution specifically in the United States and definitely not the one in Cuba. I do respect the Cuban revolution by the way but it was much, much later, and less well known than the French one.

"Vive la France, vive la révolution", it's primarily a French thing, and much less directly associated with Spanish speaking nations.

When someone says "Long live the revolution" you always think of it originally referring to France, in the spirit of the 1789 revolution, the original "class war", and not somewhere else in the Americas, even though that revolution may have been inspired by the French revolution. Well, don't you?

The history is well known; the American revolution of 1776 inspired the French revolution of 1789, the French revolution inspired the Russian revolution of 1917 and that more-or-less inspired the rest.

I am sure there are Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese and many other versions but the French version is the best known and the original one!

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.145.84.196 (talk) 09:54, 1 June 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your thoughts. No bias is intended. This is a disambiguation page designed to help users navigate to the particular use of a topic being searched. Vive la revolution redirects here and therefore so will different capitalisations and diacritics. There are, as you can see, 7 occurrences of a form beginning "Viva" (Spanish), although 2 of those go on to spell revolution with a "t" rather than a "c"; and 2 occurrences of a form beginning "Vive" (French). It's unlikely that a form beginning "Viva" is intended to refer to the French Revolution (try googling "Viva la revolución"). Without mention of the Cuban Revolution in the lead sentence the user is none-the-wiser about which revolution might have been inferred. If you can find other uses in Wikipedia of any variant of the expression, do please add them. In the meantime, I reverted your edit. (And please sign your posts on Talk pages by adding 4 tildes, like this ~~~~). Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:41, 1 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]