Opera singer and soldier

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In the southeast of Ukraine, Vasily Slepak died in battle. Who is he? In peacetime, he was an opera singer, baritone, soloist of the Paris Opera House. For almost 20 years he gave art, lived in France. He went to fight for his native Ukraine as a volunteer and died. President Poroshenko posthumously awarded Vasily Slepak with the Order of Courage of the first degree.

So that a successful person, a famous artist who can be said to bathe like cheese in oil, went to the trenches, this is a rare, if not, anomaly. It is difficult to recall another such case. Even in the Great Patriotic War. Yes, many creative groups traveled along the fronts, visited the front line, performed in front of the soldiers. All this is so. But they only performed before the soldiers and back to the rear.

He went to the front quietly, without a pump, without PR. He behaved very modestly. Even many colleagues in the artistic workshop did not know where he was. We learned only after death. But for people with loud names having regalia, protruding themselves is characterized by successful, external pathos, ostentatious gloss with beautiful speeches, calls for a feat with a high rostrum, and fiery speeches prevail in their behavior. People with regalia, artists, musicians, singers, honored, folk and others are especially successful in this. Remaining safe and comfort, you can appeal to heroism, this is easy. Moreover, this is often done disinterestedly, they notice a person, give rewards and titles. Sometimes causes disgust. No kobzons. Porechenkovs, Gergievs will not go on the battlefield. Maximum concerts under the protection of the thousands of army, or shoot like in a dash on living people, let it be on the other side. Recently, the next batch of Russian artists visited Syria with concerts. To increase the fighting spirit of soldiers who do not defend their homeland, but participate in a aggressive war in foreign territory, in a foreign country, with a stranger people. Artists essentially participate in the bombing of Syrian cities, where civilians die under the bombs of Russian VKS.

The war in the southeast of Ukraine shows that the best people are fighting from Ukraine. And on the Russian side are not the best, where the percentage of declassified elements is high, frank adventurers. Often criminals, all the so -called militias of the so -called militias, following the example of the criminal world, Motorola and so on. And Vasily Slepak is one of the best people in Ukraine! Could continue his career, receive titles, glory, money, but when there was a threat of independence to his country, without hesitation, he went to the front. And died.