Feast of Marauders at 25 years old

The cord revived Leningrad, insulted Nevzorov, announced a large concert in Luzhniki and did not betray anyone at the same time

If the world had been arranged logically, correctly and sequentially, then the main enemy of the Putin regime should have been now not Shevchuk, Grebenshchikov or Oximiron, but Sergey Vladimirovich Shnurov. The singer of cynicism, the destroyer of ideologies, a person who does not believe anyone, does not like anyone and with his word, one note, one grin is able to vulgarize all the holy, pathos, to bring down the entire official iconostasis at once. Instead, he became one of the pillars of the regime. And here, too, has its own logic.

Those who are loudly indignant at the song of Leningrad about Nevzorov and are surprised: “Well, how so, they were friends, and in general it is mean - to mock the person who is pursued by the state,” it is worth studying the entire new cord repertoire. And then it will become clear that there is nothing to be surprised at. From February 24, he released 11 songs and everything is like a selection.

"Goodbye, elite!" -about those who left the disagreements (“with screams:“ For peace! ” / He fucked up for Cordon. ” “There is no entry!” -about European Russophobia (“Russian as a Jew as a Jew now in Berlin / nine hundred and forty-toe in thousands”). “And the oligarch is at the oligarch!” -the joy of losing money due to sanctions (“uh, all our rich are rich”). “Geopolitical” who wanted to go to NATO and received a Fingal from her husband.

But there is nothing new here.

Sergei built his entire career on the fact that he lowered the bar below the plinth and offered to rejoice at how unscrupulous, stupid, arrogant, evil. And there will be nothing for us for that.

The whole "Leningrad" is one big holiday dedicated to our moral fall.

“Everyone wants to seem better than they are, but we want worse,” he said somehow. That's right. And they rejoiced because it liberates it. Not from slavery, not from state violence, not from poverty, but from conventions, from culture. It's so cool: to afford everything, not to answer for anything. Not just to be a pig lying in the mud, but also proud of it. Shnurov with a full basis can be called the singer of freedom. Freedom happens so. In this sense, the Russian army in eastern Ukraine is fighting precisely for freedom.

In Russian people who behave this way, it is customary to call a cattle. Sometimes a jubilant gopota. Many are born, and the language will not turn to blame them: the family, the army, the joyless provincial towns - in short, the environment was overwhelmed. The specificity of Shnurov is that he became so, and completely consciously. It was necessary to read a bunch of books, think a lot, get an excellent education, live long in St. Petersburg, walk around museums, communicate with smart people to make a conscious decision: I want to be a pig.

The audience of Shnurov is to match him. This is not a proletariat, not lumpen. Lumpen do not need this, they live like that without Shnurov. This is a semi -intelligence, educators, an office rabble, which joyfully threw off the shackles of culture and morality at the first call. There are many of them, perhaps, half the country.

The Leningrad group next year will turn 25 years old. 25 years - a step of a whole generation. And this generation can rightfully say that it has grown on its songs. They were listened to and took to heart those guys who are now sending washing machines and refrigerators from Irpen and Buchi, launch missiles at shopping centers, beat the prisoners. And then they die, and they do not feel sorry for their own mothers. Everything is strictly according to Shnurov: "Nobody sorry, nobody, neither you, nor me, nor him." In this universe, everyone is equal, but not equal to warriors, workers, fighters for freedom, but by the equality of looters. No one is sorry and everything is allowed.

I think that he also wrote Pasquil at Nevzorov, not seriously, not from evil. And hardly even for money. And just a good rhyme turned up: "Not Zorro - Nevzorov." And it rushed. In his system of values, to do something seriously: to hate, argue, fight. Any act hits the void, it does not mean anything and will be forgotten soon. This is postmodernism in its purest form, the kingdom of irresponsibility, accident. The violently overgrown field of weeds, the plant world.

I am sure that when it all ends, and it will certainly end, the cords will evade responsibility. Although guilt, in my opinion, is no less on it than on Ernst, Soloviev and Kiselev.

He will say: “And I was kidding, I do not equally respect either those, or others, or Navalny. They are people of beliefs, and I am a jester, a tricster, there is no responsibility to me. ” “There are no heroes and there are no traitors,” is sung in one of his songs. Nobody betrayed anyone, robbed and did not kill, we were just kidding here.

And the whole people will repeat the same thing behind him. What are you, what Ukrainians, what fascism, what Putin. We are simple people, we would have more money, drink vodka and fuck a woman. And they killed because it was possible, there was such an opportunity. If you can, how not to kill?

All this has already been. In one of the Remarque’s novels, the protagonist says: “When the Americans enter Germany, it turns out that there is not a single Nazi in the country, all as one against Hitler.”

Now let's go back to the beginning. If the Putin regime was an incarnation of Soviet power, as many mistakenly think, Shnurov would be his main enemy. After all, the Soviet government collapsed not because of Sakharov and Gorbachev, but because of the people who wanted to wear American jeans, go abroad and send those who are weaker than them (the last point is the most important). But they were interfered with party committees, the Code of the builder of communism, internationalism, the Criminal Code, and the classical music from the radio muke is unnecessary for anyone.

The Soviet government, no matter how much to treat it, still imposed some obligations on people, it had ideas. There was Afghan, there was corruption, there was a lie and propaganda, but not on a scale as now, even close. Ideas restrained. And then Putin and Shnurov came and said: "Guys, you can!"