Ukrainian magazine: Russian pop music revives the communist context, and Russian rock teaches us to love slaves
Russian culture is devoid of modernist pathos and is turned to the past, writes the magazine “Ukrainian Week”.
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“The quotas have been earned. A little more - and you can listen to domestic radio without psychological trauma, hurray!” the publication enthuses, but at the same time is indignant that “in the meantime, a certain segment of our consumers is preparing to buy tickets to Alexander Malinin and Kristina Orbakaite as early as March at a price of up to 2500 UAH for a place on the ground.”
At the same time, the author of the publication notes that even those Russian performers who did not perform in Crimea and did not openly declare their support for Putin’s policies should be banned.
“What comes to us from beyond the eastern border in the form of innocent pop music is a copy of the value system of the well-known 86%: all these “old songs about the main thing,” “gangster Petersburg” (Moscow, Ryazan, Tolyatti, Nakhodka, etc.), all these “singing cowards” carry the news about how fun it is to live in the country of slaves, how cool it is to hate your neighbor, how it’s right to go kill “fascists” - it doesn’t matter, near Donetsk or in Aleppo. By the way, this also applies to the famous “Russian rock”: perhaps it was once different, but now we see only an attempt to replace real freedom with a front that seems brutal and bold, but in fact is light and completely safe,” the magazine states.
Having trampled through Russian rock, the author returns to pop music again.
“The manifestations of Russopop in themselves may seem aseptic: “love-carrots”... Their toxicity lies in the fact that they create, or rather reanimate, a context that is both communist and colonial - a quasi-USSR. The falsity of the model of mass culture of our eastern neighbors (and their culture, God forgive me, in general, at least in its current form) is that it is oriented backwards. Zaporebrikovskaya civilization is absolutely devoid of modernist pathos, design thinking, the only current scenario for the future for it is, on occasion, to clean up the faces of the insidious Pindos and evil chocks, and of Bandera at the same time.”
Let us note that the author of the article is Yuri Makarov, who was born in Bulgaria into a family of Russian emigrants. According to his grandfather, he is the grandson of the captain of the Semenovsky Life Guards Regiment; according to his mother, he is the grandson of the rector of the Russian Church in Sofia, then of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Lugansk.
By the way, previously Makarov did not shy away from being a presenter at events organized in Kyiv by the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, although even at that time the current author of “Ukrainian Week” did not hide his anti-Russian views.
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