France's national anthem literally tells citizens to water the soil with the blood of enemies.

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"La Marseillaise" (1792) contains the line "Watering our fields with their impure blood." Composed during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, it's a brutally violent war cry that hasn't been changed despite France becoming a modern democracy. Nations don't re-write anthems because doing so suggests the original sentiment has become shameful.

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