“Where did we come? Where is the Lube group? "

On Red Square was a rally-concert “One country, one family, one Russia” in honor of the anniversary of the annexation of Ukrainian territories. That's how it was

On Friday, September 29, on Red Square they held a rally concert under the slogan "One country, one family, one Russia." He was dedicated to the anniversary of Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions (although not one of the annexed Ukrainian regions Moscow completely controls ). Russian President Vladimir Putin, who previously performed at all large rallies-concerts, did not come this time. Federal television channels also ignored the broadcast. The correspondent of the cooperative of independent journalists “Bereg” went to Red Square and talks about how students and state employees came to dance under Polina Gagarina-but they received fables of Z-poets, nationalist songs and speeches about patriotism. With the permission of the "coast" "Medusa" publishes this text entirely.

“A passage through Nikolskaya only through white tickets,” is heard from the loudspeakers near Red Square. The points through which the owners of invitations of other colors will miss the holders of invitations of other colors to them.

Unlike previous major wartime pro-government concerts, the organizers reacted to the issue of security of this: the volunteer responsible for checking tickets almost does not pay attention to passing guests and does not even think of reading QR codes. The security forces at the entrances to Red Square are not interested in either the documents or the contents of the bags of the audience - despite the fact that the scope of the metal detector is constantly squealing. The correspondent of the “coast” succeeds in passing all the stages of such control in a minute - although usually in lines in the perpetual rallies you have to stand at least half an hour.

Prior to the start of the concert for about 30 minutes, but the area is already filled with people - mostly youth. You have to stand in the literal sense shoulder to shoulder - and closer to the beginning of the concert it becomes so closely that the red square resembles a subway car at the peak. Despite the fact that the weather in Moscow is comfortable and the site is in the open air, in the crowd it quickly becomes stuffy - people with a lower growth have to throw their heads and stand on tiptoe to reach fresh air.

"I would have been at school now, by golly, I want to go to algebra!" - The young female voice behind his back is capriciously pulling. The teenager is trying to get out of the crowd towards the exit. She is followed by seven more. The audience rejoice that now it will work out deeper, to the place from which the scene is better. But it is separated by metal fences, the passage through which employees of the Chop control. You can go in only on special passes, which no one in the crowd has. It seems that everyone who had the right to go to the “fan zone”, as it is called in the crowd, was held there in advance.

- Polina, but you can't leave before? -A sonorous female voice is heard somewhere very close. To see who exactly he belongs is almost impossible, people are so densely worth.

- Don't know. We need a joint photo from Svetaeva, ”another female voice replies to her.

“I agree without her, I don’t need 10 points ,” the first answers with a laugh.

About a week before the rally, the telegram channel from the mesh of Ksenia Sobchak “Caution, Moscow” reported that some Moscow universities (in particular, the State Medical and Dame University) promised to accrue points that give an advantage to the next stage of education, students who would come to the concert. If you believe the sources of a telegram channel, a trip to Krasnaya Square was planned to be designed as a “volunteer activity”. The Ministry of Education recommends accruing for volunteering just a maximum of 10 points.

- Can I go? We want to go to that edge, ”a woman of about sixty emerges from the crowd and nods in the direction of the Blessed Vasily Temple.

- You cannot go here, everything is clogged here! - an indignantly reacts a high, thin middle -aged man.

- What are small here, well, where with such! - The spectator gaskets nearby.

It turns out that the Muscovite, who wants to leave the rally-concert, came to him with two children-pounds not older than five years.

- You still dragged the children into this! E-mine! - does not stand the male voice in the crowd. - Yesterday, or something, they did not know what a mass event is?

“Hold on to each other, or you will be lost,” the head of the family commands calmly. With difficulty, but she and the children still manage to squeeze through the crowd.

The youth continues to leave the fan sector and this annoys other spectators: any movement in the crowd can lead to a crush.

- Why are you getting out of there?

- And the concert was canceled! - The dark -haired young man jokes and immediately disappears in the crowd.

“We were forced to come here actually,” another explains. But he does not have time to explain who exactly forced him: the flow of people takes him further.

“Well, just wait a long time to [start],” the short girl of about eighteen explains her departure.

But after a few minutes, fanfares sound. Two presenters come to the stage-the blogger and Vija Muz-TV channel Artem Shalimov and the pro-government folk singer Elizabeth Okrikova . Neither their faces nor the names of the guests talk about anything.

“This day, September 30, 2022, has already entered the latest history of Russia,” Shalimov begins. - Exactly a year ago, President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin signed documents on the reunification of the original Russian lands with the Russian Federation. Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions have become a full part of Russia. Historical justice triumphed! "

Shalimova is not embarrassed that the rally concert takes place not on the 30th, but on September 29. However, it is expected that in the evening of the next day “Russia 1” will show the performances of the artists in the record.

The concert is opened by a group of “patriotic” rappers “after the surge” (the letter Z appeared in their name long before the start of the war) with the song “We don’t throw our own”. It sounds from the scene:

After all, everything is as always, everything is against us -

They want us to become weaker.

It was already, and more than once,

But the strength in us is at the gene level.

We save Donetsk, save Lugansk,

We are a fraternal people, no matter what they say there!

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At the concert, which takes place under the slogan “One country, one family, one Russia” (where it is impossible not to see a reference to the slogan of Nazi Germany), the line on the “strength of the gene” does not surprise anyone.

While the musicians say for the tenth time for the song that “the Russians are not abandoned,” the audience continue to leave the fan sector. But those who will watch a concert on TV are likely to not see this: on the screens installed on the sides from the stage, where they periodically broadcast shots with the assembled in the square, such fragments do not appear. A close -up of a young viewer is brought to the screen. Having barely noticed that she was removed, she covers her face with her hands.

“After the Earth” is performed by the “Smuglyka” and the song “Army of the Strong” - about the greatness and valor of Russian military. After that, the host Shalimov calls on the stage of the Driver, calling it a "rising superstar." The singer appears in a white dress with bright red patterns resembling blood splashes.

- But who is it? Where did we come? Where is the Lube group? Where is Polina Gagarina? - The blonde with many tattoos complains.

- Yes, they will come. Typically, such stars at the end of [the concert perform], her friend reassures.

The next on the stage is invited to the Z-poet Vlad Malenko . He represents his new fable to the public. "Get ready: first it will be scary!" - says Malenko. But it turns out rather strange and ashamed. In the fable, Malenko talks about the “American crocodile”, which crawled into Ukraine in the nineties and put the ideas of “ghoul-thanders” in the head of the “young”:

And the boys began to want antennae under his nose.

And the girls began to wear thinner panties .

Let into the European booth!

Like, who does not jump, that Moskal, gypsies .

The fable ends with the fact that the “Russian guys” enter the battle “for their homeland, for life, for man”. “Goyda, brothers and sisters, goyda” - deliberately burping, quoted by one of the spectators of the word Ivan Okhlobystin, who performed on the same scene a year ago.

“Road! And there are two better, ”the viewer, who is still chosen from the fan zone, pushes people in the crowd. It has a black shirt and a black tie, in his hands - a folder with the LDPR logo. He repeats his joke several times, but people around do not laugh. “Give me two white roads ,” the man decides to explain himself. The meaning of the phrase finally reaches the audience. Satisfied with the fact that he was able to cheer the crowd, a man with the LDPR folder goes towards the exit.

After the fables, little -known “patriotic” groups and pro -Russian artists from the occupied regions of Ukraine begin to perform: several songs are singing “ours”, “123 regiment” and Donetsk singer Natalya Kachura.

"When, interestingly, they write songs on this" Dombass "?" -a female voice is heard from somewhere on the right. In intonation, mockery is clearly heard.

The concert has been going on for more than an hour. A group of girls of about twenty decides not to wait for their favorite artists and leaves, considering that music can be listened to on a bench outside Red Square. Some other viewers do the same. It becomes more spacious on the site - finally, there is an opportunity to see at least your own legs.

The spectator of about fifty becomes bad - and the ambulance team on duty nearby is invited to her. Half an hour ago, she tried to break closer to the fence separating the fan zone.

“Yes, it was specially fainted so that the guards to her to where it was more free, let her go,” an irritated whisper is heard.

Shalimov and the host of the Vesti program on Russia 1 Maria Sittel, who replaced Elizabeth Vnsyakova, enter the stage.

"Our compatriots from the new regions know: Russia is forever with them!" - says the host. The fact that Russia does not control the territories of the regions, the “accession” of which is celebrated during the concert, Sittel does not remember.

Finally, artists of the first echelon appear. Nikolai Baskov performs a “song about Russia”, and in the final of the performance he wishes the audience “health, happiness, goodness and victory”. Then Larisa Valley sings the song “I wish you”, completing the number with the words: “Long live the Great Country - Russia!”

The audience is represented by an unexpected duet: the idol of the teenagers of the singer Khabib and the ethno-folk singer Barbara . Khabib sings fragments of his hit “Berry-Malinka”, and Barbara inserts bits from the Soviet song “Merry Quadrille” between them. So in one room, lines about the “Shtilts and boots” and the lyrical heroine of Khabib - “Number one girl Krash” are connected in one issue.

The next on the stage appears the artistic director of the Moscow Theater Oleg Tabakov Vladimir Mashkov, who has recently performed at every large pro -government concert. His name is unknown to most of the students gathered on the Red Square, but it is worth the organizers to bring his image to the screens, as the crowd begins to rejoice.

- Wow, it's him! -the girl in a sweatshirt cries in surprise with the inscription "Volunteers-Mediki.rf."

“Yeah, they checked us if we know that he is Mashkov,” her acquaintance laughs.

“The day of the reunion of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions - the greatest day in our history,” Mashkov begins his speech. - I want to congratulate us all on this historical event.

Mashkov talks about “our guys”, who are on the forefront, and explains that for him “they are our homeland”. Applause sound.

“Residents of four regions returned home,” the artist continues. - Now they are under our protection. And you know, I want to remind you that the 67th article of the Constitution of the Russian Federation does not allow the alienation of our lands. And this is forever. We are one country, one family, one Russia. We will be together. Victory and peace to us all!

- Russia! Russia! - the crowd begins to scream.

Vladimir Mashkov is replaced by Alexander Marshal, he sings "from the heroes of the old days there are sometimes no names." The next is announced by the singer Zar, then Aglaya Shilovskaya and Gleb Matveychuk - all these names are not familiar to the guests of the concert. After them, actor Dmitry Pevtsov enters the stage: he recites the poem to the “slanderers of Russia” Alexander Pushkin.

“Well done, bravo,” with the intonation of the school teacher commented on the performance of a short -cut woman of about sixty, straightening points.

The concert is continued by the participants of the Kuban Cossack choir dressed in national costumes. Behind them, actress Olga Budina and the head of the association of large families of Moscow, Natalya Karpovich, share emotions from a trip to an annexed DPR. After them, with the song “We together”, Oleg and Rodion Gazmanov perform - artists from Lugansk, Melitopol and Kherson sing along to them.

“Nobody can ever win us while we are together,” says Oleg Gazmanov. - Russia!

“Russia - Fire and Strength in this word,” the crowd begins to sing.

The moment comes for the lyrical composition, it is performed by Stas Piekh. Lines of the song "I am with you" at a concert on the occasion of the annexation of Ukrainian regions sound ambiguously:

I'm with you, but the wind knows: you are not mine

Your smile is not for me, but I will wait for you, love.

After Piekhi, Alexander F. Sklyar sings the song “Honor of Honor” about the fate of the Cossack:

Cossack work - to love the homeland,

And for that, it’s not a pity to fold your head.

- Donbass. Russia. One blood. One fate. One Love. Always, - Sklya mings at the end of the performance.

- Golden words! - Supports his host Sittel.

Nadezhda Babkina, Alexander Oleshko, finally perform, finally, Sergey Zhukov enters the stage from the “Hands Up!” Group. The crowd roars with delight and from the very first notes the song “When we were young” is trying to dance.

Zhukov finishes singing and preparing to leave the scene, but the presenter is almost pouncing on him.

- Such a day, you ask you! - stammering, Chalimov’s cockroach. - You are an idol of millions, you are a symbol of more than one generation! Be kind, at least a couple of lines from your song Akapelly! On Red Square, on such a day!

“My baby,” Zhukov begins.

- I miss you !!! - The girls scream in Red Square. Together with the singer, they sing the entire chorus.

“Thank you, Sergey,” Shalimov says with trembling in his voice. - I have goosebumps ... Thank you!

- And he could not ask Gazmanova [to do the same]? - a displeased female voice in the crowd is heard.

The next one is just Gazmanov. Spectators willingly sing along to "springs."

- Thank you! - shouts Gazmanov. - Yesaul, Yesaul!

“Well, you left the horse,” Red Square picks up.

But Sittel does not allow them to continue - she invites Mary Kiselev to the leading “weak link” to the scene to tell about her trip to the occupied Mariupol. The former synchronist, and now the deputy of the Moscow City Duma talks about the development of sports in the occupied regions.

"Listen, how do I know her?" - A tall girl of about eighteen turns thoughtfully at her friend. A friend shrugs.

"Oh, they give water there!" - the elderly woman in glasses pronounces loudly, pointing to the volunteer, and the crowd rushes in his direction. Already closer to the end of the number of Denis Maidanov, someone is still distracted by what is happening on the stage and begins to sing along with the “Russian world”.

“We are all the Russian world,” Maria Sittel sums up. “And now our thoughts about those who are on the front line.”

“The song of Viktor Tsoi, who is now sounding, is dedicated to everyone who is fighting Nazism today,” Artem Shalimov presents the next number.

- "Cuckoo", or what? - A girlfriend is interested in a girlfriend, who failed to remember how Maria Kiselev knows.

- Songs, not yet written, how many? - Olga Kormukhina begins to sing in response.

“A disgrace,” the young man in a jacket with a small golden ring in his ear says sharply. What exactly he is outraged - the absence of Polina Gagarina, who usually performs a “cuckoo” at proceedings, or what interpretation of Tsoi’s songs received in 2023 - remains unclear.

Rodion Gazmanov tells how he was warmly met by the audience in occupied Melitopol and Berdyansk. After the numbers of little -known artists and the speech of the astronaut Fedor Yurchikhin, who returned from the occupied Melitopol, the main star of the modern patriotic song - the shaman comes to the audience. He decides to sing a hit - “my battle”, in the name of which (especially in combination with the clip ), as in the slogan of the concert, you can see the allusion to Hitler's manifestation.

- I am Russian! - The audience begins to scream the words of another hit shaman, as soon as he manages to finish the last notes.

After negotiations with the leading, the shaman decides to sing him.

- Che, it was difficult, or something, it was [to sing immediately], huh? - a woman of about fifty grins.

“Thank you,” the shaman of fans thanks, leaving.

“Yes, please,” the same viewer throws.

“We just have just a minute,” Sittel begins to say. -If you want to ask for someone else to go out from behind the scenes ...

-Sha-man! - without listening to the host, the Red Square yells.

- We accept your applications. Whom? — подхватывает Шалимов.

— Владимир! Владимирович! Putin! — произносит кто-то в толпе.

Но ни Шаман, ни Путин на сцену не выходят. Ведущие продолжают работать по сценарию.

— Не было периода в нашей истории, который можно было бы назвать спокойным. Такая нам выпала судьба — идти сквозь трудности, побеждать врагов, а потом строить новую жизнь, расти и развиваться. И это счастливая судьба! — убеждает зрителей со сцены Шалимов.

Ведущие объявляют последний номер — всем участникам предстоит исполнить гимн России под аккомпанемент симфонического оркестра.

— Слова мы все знаем наизусть, — сообщает Мария Ситтель. Но текст российского гимна все равно появляется на установленном напротив сцены суфлере. Предполагается, что артисты должны исполнять гимн построчно, и, чтобы Николай Басков, Лариса Долина, Александр Маршал и другие не запутались, над отдельными фрагментами обозначены нужные фамилии.

Не дожидаясь завершения гимна, зрители пытаются пробраться к выходу с площади. Вскоре люди с флагами России и нарисованными на скулах триколорами с криками «Я русский! Всему миру назло!» и «Русские, вперед!» заполняют Никольскую улицу.

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