Babylon is not powerful over you

Disagreements of citizens and authorities moved to aesthetic plane

Last winter, when there was neither coronavirus nor zero yet, Boris Grebenshchikov published on YouTube his song “Won Babylon”. According to the musical genre, this devil knows that some Russian reggae. And in meaning-a classic anti-war and anti-imperial statement, sounding as if rock and roll were never dead. When our comrades were persecuted in the “Moscow case”, the BG song helped to find the right attitude to what was happening.

The mood and gesture that we want to demonstrate to the figures of the lattice and batons.

Babylon here is a symbol of Moscow simultaneously, cyclopical and devouring the rest of Russia, but a Moscow narcissistic, completely forgetting about living people of the authorities and, finally, a state that goes crazy in a militaristic zero. Grebenshchikov finds laconic words to formulate an attitude towards all this at once: "Get out, Babylon!"

Now in July, Khabarovsk does not sit at home for two weeks to defend his right to choose power. Moscow sent to the Far East the acting Degtyarev, who had already promised the people, and demonstratively pulled up on the school horizontal bar, and, according to propaganda reports, while he was still saved the daughter of a grateful Khabarovsk woman from the American authorities (“Even then our candidate worked on Pizhika”).

But Degtyarev did not dare to get to people.

After the appointment of the acting acting streets, people who have a slogan are in the hands of Khabarovsk: “Won Babylon”, in which Moscow’s demand to leave the Far East to the care of local residents, and the proposal to personally get back to Zhirinovsky, and expression of distrust of the President of the Russian Federation. Exact words were given to citizens of a large country Boris Borisovich.

As if in the 60s of the last century Rock-again the music of protest and the language in which the street speaks.

Rallies in Khabarovsk are an important sign of the return of citizens to their homeland, where, it would seem, all conditions have been created to be exclusively “population”. But these rallies are also very beautiful.

A week ago, a giant column of Khabarovsk residents walked past three girls who performed anarchist flamenco. They danced in red skirts, black jackets and masks, under the song again relevant, as in perestroika, the “Kino” - “Last Hero”. On the backs of the girls, another slogan was written: "This is our choice."

Disagreements of citizens and states pass into the deepest plane - aesthetic.

For other issues, you can still agree, but here are the unpreparedness of the Russians to walk under military marches, speak at the bureaucratic chancellery or sing the militarized patriotic rock Alexander Sklyar makes the political crisis too obvious.

Free people need other words and songs, and they well understand their meaning.

Those who are now in positions should be criticized by the unpreparedness of the conditional Grebenshchikov to sign up with Putin's infantrymen are extremely disappointed with what the musician does in recent years. But the split took shape: the people have their own art, and it is not only no longer controlled by propaganda, but also contrasted with it. The former authoritarian regimes tried to forbid artists to speak out on social topics; Let's see how they will succeed today.

Moscow protests in recent years also had music, and now fashion - in every sense of the word - dictates Khabarovsk.