Russian online song warns of new missiles
NewsThe latest triumph of Russian culture is a song in praise of an interncontinnental ballistic missile known as Satan.
Time to compile an album of Putin’s greatest hits.
I thought we were long past the point when Russia could surprise us, but how wrong I was
Denis Maidanov has just released a song honouring the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, known in the West as "Satan II"
And ex-Roscosmos boss Rogozin helped him with the lyrics pic.twitter.com/Uim3ddU3Ak
— Francis Scarr (@francis_scarr) December 17, 2022
Just change the lyrics and then what you’ve got is quite catchy
Dear Mr. Lebrecht, even some of your colleagues are working hard to praise that culture while Russia is obliterating Ukraine and causing massive human suffering.
Like the portal Operawire and their “Managing Editor” – a Russian minimizing Russian crimes and promoting the “culture”.
Apologies for the link, and this is not about the opening night of the Teatro alla Scala, but the praise for the culture that should be out of the theaters until Russian thugs stop with their war crimes.
Read this. It is an omen to dishonesty. https://operawire.com/criticism-on-fridays-la-scala-opening-night/
Just read this article. I’m sorry, but I agree with every word of it.
Cancellation of cultures will lead to nowhere. What Putin is doing is awful, but what you’re proposing to ban Russian culture at an extreme level is also awful.
Two wrongs do NOT make a right!
Anyhow, to quote from this article you shared:
“I believe that art should always be distinguished from politics, otherwise, we shouldn’t have to read Dostoevsky,” Gennaro Sangiuliano, the Culture Minister of Italy.
Viva Italia for saying that.
When any politician says such nonsense, one thing is sure: he has never read a single line of Dostoyevski and knows nothing but the name. (And maybe the first four line of Dante’s Inferno which they force them to learn at school).
I beg your pardon, but Putin is not only trying to cancel a culture, but human beings. Our fellow humans on this planet, as deserving as you or I. Think of that tonight as you have your dinner, drink your water, and climb into a warm bed, safe and secure. To equate culture or politics with the actions of perhaps the world’s most heinous criminal and his enablers is unconscionable. You and they have lost your humanity. We’ve seen this before.
Putin does not represent Russian culture. He is just a murderer who happens to be of Russian descent, who happens to be running that country right now. So I certainly am not equating culture with him.
This is why it’s so important to separate culture from his politics.
Full failure of adequacy, but this is just beginning.
As I said earlier, there is something almost genetically off about these “people” – for all of their scientific accomplishments, they seem literally incapable of possessing or developing a moral or ethical conscience
Tom, you’re being racist.
#RussianLivesMatter
Russian lives don’t matter to Mr. Putin, why should they matter to us? Or do you expect us to join in the song about the weapons pointing at us?
Unlike black lives, Russian lives are hardly endangered, nor are Russian’s victims of discrimination ANYWHERE. Nor are they in fact a “race”.
Racism against an entire country is still racism.
If you said ‘I like Asians but I don’t like Japanese people’ is that racist? Yes, Tom. Yes it is.
“As I said earlier, there is something almost genetically off about these “people” – for all of their scientific accomplishments, they seem literally incapable of possessing or developing a moral or ethical conscience.”
It takes a special kind of idiocy to miss the irony in your own comment.
I said “ALMOST” genetic. Nonetheless, any student of Russian history cannot fail to note that historically – unlike most despotic governments in their region – the larger public has NOT risen up in resistance but are solidly behind the regime. Throughout its history, the pro-human rights democracy proponents have always been a exceedingly tiny minority of the Russian population and overwhelmingly live abroad.
And of course this is a country that in addition to its war crimes abroad, has ALWAYS repressed every religious and racial minority in its midst, conducts savage attacks on LGBTQ etc. with seemingly intense popular support. Even on this blog one notes Russian commentators were among the most fervent apologists for Levine, Domingo etc. just as many now hail the massacres in Ukraine. There is a deep-seated mean-spirtedness in that culture that is unmatched in any other part of Europe. For all of its multitude of crimes abroad, the contemporary U.S. at least has many active critics seeking to resist or overcome these policies.
That comment epitomises the conceit of declining Western liberalism. Vast parts of the world think very differently and this is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. The intellectual pluralism that Western liberals cherished is long gone and has been replaced by an arrogance and intolerance of its own. Crowing on your dung hill ‘but we’re right!’ won’t make the blindest bit of difference.
The nuclear winter in music has already begun.
I find it interesting that many SD readers are like starting from a tabula rasa. I’ve not read any calls for peace talks. It’s always, Ukraine good, Russia evil. Yes, I understand the propaganda is overwhelming but this is reasoning like children.
Here’s further to the premise that the misuse and abuse of music by Putin and his thugs will continue to haunt Ukraine:
BBC News – Ukraine: Russia to deploy musicians to front to boost morale
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64016599
To me, it seems enough to banish Russian music from the halls and radios of civilization because the atrocities of their regime make me so sick and angry. There can be no comfort or pleasure in anything reminding me of Russia, I despise it ALL as an involuntary bodily response to their war crimes.