The St. Petersburg Diocese condemned the Concert Choir of the northern capital, which performed the song "In a submarine with an atomic motor" about the US nuclear bombing in St. Isaac's Cathedral at a concert on Defender of the Fatherland Day.
“Choral performances in St. Isaac's Cathedral take place quite regularly, and the very fact of performing music appropriate for the church space does not cause any rejection. But this repertoire performed by a fairly well-known group, of course, is surprising, ” told Interfax . Natalia Rodomanova, head of the communications sector of the St. Petersburg Metropolis,
The author of the song, the bard Andrei Kozlovsky, said that she was a comic drill at the military department of the LTA named after. Kirov, where he studied in 1980, when the song was written. “At our military department, half of the course was taught to be navigators of military transport aviation, and the other was turned into commanders of a motorized rifle platoon. The system was, but there was no drill song. Here's what I came up with. Almost quailed the textbook on combat disciplines, in which at that time there was one probable enemy. The song is banter. She was spun on the BBC in 1983. That, in fact, is all, ”Kozlovsky wrote on his page on Vkontakte.