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From the Cold War to the Genocide in Gaza: Eurovision, Seventy Years of Geopolitics in Music

Summary by L'Humanité
Born in 1956, in the middle of the Cold War, Eurovision was then the contest of the Western song. If the aseptic and apolitical artists have often occupied the front of the stage, geopolitics has always been in the background. From the Berlin Wall to the genocide in Gaza, to the internal tensions of the continent...
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Born in 1956, in the middle of the Cold War, Eurovision was then the contest of the Western song. If the aseptic and apolitical artists have often occupied the front of the stage, geopolitics has always been in the background. From the Berlin Wall to the genocide in Gaza, to the internal tensions of the continent...

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L'Humanité broke the news on Friday, May 8, 2026.
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