Igor Aidman: "Nuclear coquetry and glamorous apocalypse"

“You know what is the worst in the history of the concert choir of St. Petersburg at a festive concert on February 23 in the Isaac's Cathedral Songs about the nuclear bombardment of the United States? The fact that this parody comic song composed in Soviet times was now taken seriously,” writes sociologist in Facebook .

“After its performance, patriotic spectators clapped, but did not laugh, and, on the liberal FB, on the contrary, a wave of indignation swept. People in Russia began to relate to a nuclear disaster as a probable reality.

And in the USSR they sang chick songs about the atomic war, but they were drunken teenagers in the gateway ("We are flying to bomb Beijing", etc.). Now such songs have become almost official, they are singing in one of the main temples of the country.

In the Soviet Union, the mainstream considered hypocritical, but outwardly pacifist texts (the classic of the genre - "whether Russian wars want"). Now in fashion - aggressively militaristic songs: “Uncle Vova, we are with you”, “From Donetsk to the Kremlin is my homeland”, “Medal for the city of Washington”, etc.

The flirting with nuclear apocalypse has become glamorous and not at all scary. And what to be afraid of? The Fuhrer himself said: "They will all die, and we will go to heaven."

Today's moral idiocy and irresponsibility of the Russian establishment are unprecedented; Like the threat to the world that he carries. "