Vagner's great -great -grandson: "I am suffocating when the name of the great -grandfather is smeared on their bloodied flags"

The great -granddaughter of the composer Richard Vagner Katarina Wagner commented on the column by the German publication Die Welt, the unlawful use of her great -grandfather’s name by the mercenaries of Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Wagner's music was repeatedly associated with war, nationalism, anti -Semitism and “political madness,” she writes. In particular, Wagner, as you know, was Hitler's favorite composer.

“This cannot be denied at all, rather, you need to find out again and again how the worst forms of political and racist madness fit into the dramatic events in the work of my great -grandfather. Nevertheless, the occupation of Wagner's work by the National Socialists was disgusting. And when the Russian hired army, whose atrocities are unsurpassed, smears the name of Wagner on its bloodied flags, not only my breath caught my breath, ”the composer's great -granddaughter wrote.

Wagner's PMC received the name from the call sign of her first commander Utkin - “Wagner”. Utkin does not hide Nazi views and wears a swastika tattoo.