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Viva la revolución

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ7937515 ↗
Source-derived summary

Viva la revolución (Spanish), or Vive la révolution (French), translated as "long live the revolution", refers primarily to:

The French Revolution (1789–1799)

The Cuban Revolution (1953–1959)

It may also refer to:

Arts and media

Music

Viva la Revolution (album), by Dragon Ash, or the title song, 1999

Viva la Revolution, an album by Ruben Ramos & the Mexican Revolution, 2008

Viva la Revolucion, an EP by Revolution Void, 1999

"Viva la Revolution" (song), by the Adicts, 1982

"Viva la Revolución", a song by Sunny Lax, 2011

"Viva, Viva La Revolution!", a 1936 Spanish falangist song

Other media

Tepepa, a 1968 film also released as Tepepa...

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1789, 1799, 1953, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Viva, revolución and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from “Viva la revolución” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.