Ziad Rahbani, the story of a generation

I heard today that Ziad Rahbani decided to leave the country for Moscow.
It is said that he left after a squabble with Hezbollah.
I do not know if the story is true or not.
Strangely I am not concerned by checking the truth of the story.
It opened a wound I carry since long.

Ziad Rahbani's music and engaged theater represents the dreams and deception of a generation who reached youth before the 1975 Civil War. They were the foot soldiers and officers of this war and most importantly they were its intelligentsia.
The war started as a clash of parties divided along Left and Right parties, Lebanese isolationism versus Arab nationalism, Cold War East West tug of war, with an underlying sectarian conflict and tension. Ziad was as a person in the Leftist camp but his music and plays were heard and played in both camps, he was the comedian and musician of a generation whatever its political ideological inclination.

I will never forget going to see one of his play in dark streets filled with the sounds of Kalashnikov fire and mortar shelling. It was intense, thrilling, airy...

The Civil War opponents changed and shifted as time went by and with the Syrian domination the pillars of the dissent shifted to become blurred for many of the romantic leftists. They remained stuck in the past struggles. Resistance remained their motto not considering the meaning and purpose of this resistance. They replaced the Palestinian revolution with the Islamic Resistance not noticing that Hezbollah is allied to the Persian power and stands in ideology against all they adhere to as principle. The enemy remained the same in name without consideration for evolution or devolution. Most surprising is that Russia melted into the old Soviet Union and they did not notice that Russia is the ultimate capitalist state now. A state with a nationalist religious identity. They look and see the old Marxist state and remember the Soviet stance as to the Palestinian cause.
Ziad Rahbani is the two dimensional model of this generation, the old Lebanese leftists.

As I said, I do not know if the story of Ziad self imposed diaspora is real or not, but I can easily imagine a scenario where Ziad who followed blindly Hezbollah, neglecting to see the religious fascist ideology. I can imagine him saying the Resistance cannot be wrong "They are fighting Israel and American imperialism"
Then came the reality check of not allowing alcohol in their regions, imposing on people their religious ideology, intolerance for any micron of dissent, nepotism and corruption....
Hezbollah became stripped from the sainthood of the Resistance, what remained is a Lebanese political party with foreign allegiance that practice politics as usual and whose aim is power and the promotion of its ideology.

I can imagine the shock of it.
I just hope that the peers of Ziad come to term with their romanticism and come back to earth.