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"Congratulations from there." Part 3
Russian and Ukrainian musicians congratulate each other a Happy New Year video postcards
New Year's videos exchanged Julia Teunikova and Peter Akimov, Gusha Katushkin and Maria Tchaikovskaya, groups "Barto" and "Maidani Congo"
Today is the fourth day of the promotion. Happy New Year, Yuri Shevchuk, Oleg Skripka, Onka, Svetlana Surganova, Julia Teunikova and Pyotr Akimov, Gusha Katushkin and Maria Tchaikovskaya, the Barto Tanok Maidani Congo group exchanged video. You can summarize some results.
Eight videos. There are twenty more people and there are more and more of them. More than 22 thousand views on the promotion channel. But the main thing is not even views, but a resonance. People are not so much watching a video as they are affected by the fact: how is it even possible-the Russian-Ukrainian anti-war action?
News tapes are full of headlines, like: “Shevchuk and violin stop the Cold War”, “Music against hatred” and so on. Plus a photo of Shevchuk with a violin. Shevchuk in a jacket, violin in embroidered shirt. It is worth a lot. This is the main thing. And it does not matter that some Ukrainian musicians are not expressed quite friendly. You can say anything. Whether they want it or not, they will stop the Cold War. They are already stopping her. The case is done. There is no reverse passage.
I bring here the monologue of the Barto group recorded for our action. Difficult, painful, but very important: “It suddenly turned out that we live at a time when our countries are at war. Real war, with victims. And at the war of the war. All the information that comes to us is the information that Ukraine is an enemy for us. And we know that in Ukraine the same situation in relation to Russia. Although a year ago it was difficult to imagine such a situation. But here - Hello! - Each resident of Russia suddenly had an enemy in Ukraine. Relatives became distant relatives, friends became friends and so on. Who benefits from this situation? To ordinary people, our friends, our Ukrainian colleagues-musicians-this war is unprofitable for anyone, is not interesting, everyone is in prostration now because of this. It is not clear what to do to stop these actions. Who should I say: throw a weapon? Stop reading the Facebook, stop watching TV. Listen to each other! Listen to yourself and your mind. There are no values in the world that could justify bloodshed! No capital is worth a single human life. We wish our Ukrainian colleagues the end of the conflict in the new year, and also so that our nations do not become insane zombies who hate each other, who are not able to analyze the situation themselves and make decisions. ”
And a piercing song as a gift. “Your love leaves me ...”, Masha Lyubicheva sings. Something like this is happening now.
The initiators of the New Gazeta project, the Kushnir-Production Agency, the Cultprostir Internet platform and the BETV Ukraine Internet telekanal.