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"Don't shoot!", And they shoot
Where did the listeners of Shevchuk and Grebenshchikov and readers of Tolstoy and Chekhov go?
Rock musicians are silent. After February 24, most of them spoke out for peace, categorically against what the Russian Armed Forces are doing now, and then silence: no concerts, no new songs on the topic. Someone left, someone is afraid, but in fact the reason is different. It is not clear why to sing further. “For so many years they sang - the same as they were silent” - as Grebenshchikov said. It is difficult to imagine a greater inconsistency of efforts and result. They did one thing, but it turned out completely different.
Russian rock since its occurrence is almost exclusively pacifist. This is due to both his hippic roots, and with the general humanistic message of Russian literature. Rock in Russia has not become a full -fledged musical phenomenon, it, like thirty years ago, is a form of existence of literature, which means that inherits Tolstoy, Chekhov, Platonov, Shalamov, Brodsky. The authors who taught that the main value of the world is a person, not his corpse. That sympathy is better than hatred.
The word on the letter “B”, prohibited by Roskomnadzor, was used by our musicians almost always in a negative sense: “For the hell with <Special operation>” (Olga Arefieva), “Hundred Years” (Noyaz), “Stop <Special operation>” (“Adaptation”), “We do not need <specialoperation>” (“Electric Partizans”). Well, or in metaphysical, like that of Tsoi: “Between Earth and Heaven - <Special operation>”. And the same Tsoi - about the nuclear zone.
Quote Sea. And any of them approaches what is happening now.
"Cockroaches!":
Freedom, equality and brotherhood - to the landfill!
When there is such a fight - it’s not a pity!
There is little money, there is little power and territories,
They need an enemy, they cannot now without blood.
There are no doubts: wherever a brother shoots a brother,
The one who issued machine guns to the brothers is guilty.
Nautilus Pompilius:
Would be black
Yes, even the very devil
But someone is the main one
Who always tears the attack
Ordered to advance for the summer
And trampled me in Haki.
I see smoke
Where I was not
I feel burning
I don't want to know that creature
Who burns this sky.
Lumen:
The bodies are crushed by the bodies on the ground,
With bullets, souls break into the sky.
Someone goes crazy from grief
But there are such - their tears do not strangle.
Money and oil is more expensive for them than blood,
Like each of them was born a machine.
We just want to live like them,
Choose in the chest in the chest, not an ice floe!
Grebenshchikov:
Every time they tell me that we are together,
I remember: the most money brings the “Cargo 200”.
Dogs choked with howl.
We were taught not to live, we were taught to die standing.
Please note: this is not just a scream “No!”. This is a clear analysis, the answer to the questions "Who is to blame?" And "why?" There is only an answer to the question “What to do?” ...
The number of pacifist songs in Russia is huge - more than in any other country, maybe, with the exception of the United States. Why so, it is clear that we live in a state that is constantly fighting. Only on my life accounted for seven “special operations” with the direct participation of our troops: Afghan, the first Chechnya, the second Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Ukraine-2014, Ukraine-2022. And I would like to think about something else, about flowers, about social perceptions in the work of Zhiluz’s Gilles, but it is difficult, it doesn’t work out. We live under this Damoklov sword.
We also have militaristic songs. A characteristic example is Alexander F. Sklyar with the songs “Millions” and “We will take Manhattan, and then Berlin” (a geographical absurdity, it would be more logical in the reverse order, Berlin is closer, but we are not looking for simple ways). Such authors are units, and in peacetime their voices were almost inaudible. It is all the more amazing that when the ICC hour came, they listened to them, and the rest were still silent.
How could they hear Shevchuk’s song “Don’t shoot!”, And she heard half the country, take a machine gun in his hands and shoot people? Or approve the murders?
Or at least just not to say no? This does not fit in your head. Sausage to the music and did not hear the text? We decided that it doesn't matter? What does Shevchuk sing about them? That the Grebenshchikovskoye “my homeland, like a pig, eats his sons” says for a red word? But she really eats.
It is hard to believe that the words and songs went into the sand, that everything was in vain. Until recently in Moscow and St. Petersburg, festivals “We will give the world a chance”, “Deserter-fest” and “not yet too late” were held. It was not really too late. Clips "DDT" and "Aquarium" gained millions of views. It cannot just take it and disappear. Where are you, listeners of Shevchuk and Grebenshchikov, Noise and “cockroaches!”, “Oblomov”, “accident”, “cinema”, readers of Tolstoy and Chekhov? This is your country.