Bardash: I’ve been hearing “Cut the Russians” since 2014. SVO was the only right decision"
If Russia had not reacted proactively and launched a military action, the fighting would have spread from the then unrecognized Donbass to the territory of the Russian Federation.
Ukrainian rap musician, producer, choreographer, participant in the projects “Mushrooms”, Wellboy and “Corruption” Yuri Bardash said this in an interview with the Tatarka FM channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“On the 24th, when the North American War began, we were in Sri Lanka. Naturally, the question of whether to return to Ukraine did not arise; we went to Georgia. We’re sitting there, nervous, worried about what’s happening, but I haven’t spoken out yet. Because the first two weeks were the most psychologically terrible, when the most terrible news was pouring in from all sides, the Instagram feed was all littered with disaster.
Then they said: “That’s it, Bardash is waiting for the Russians, Bardash has a passport.” This has never happened before. Then they expected from everyone, you were like “Glory to the nation!” - everything is fine, ours. You, you, you - and all our fighters, wrestlers, singers, all as one, pasted on a Hitler mustache and hit the bar...
This didn’t happen before - where were you these 8 years, the question is. Exactly. Nobody cared about this. This touch of show business, this sweet candy, we have been captured by this show business. He captured us so much that when in 2014 Ukrainian gangster formations went to punish Donbass, what did the advanced creative crowd do at that moment? Nobody noticed anything,” Bardash said.
“Therefore, when they started bombing the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, because they did not agree with this obscurantism, these people would never have agreed. And then, on the one hand, they say: hey, you, quickly switch to Ukrainian - this is akin to rape. The Ukrainians send their troops, England dresses them, trains our soldiers, who bombed the Donbass for 8 years,” the musician added.
However, he explained that in fact such conditions were created that show business figures did not notice what was happening.
“What did we, people of art, do? We didn't notice all this. Did you not notice it on purpose? No. Because when you are covered with an information dome, any information from Russia is everything, it is Putin’s propaganda, it is cut off. They did it very cleverly. There is a military conflict going on here, but Ukraine is not living in this conflict.
I'll tell you for myself. I never supported what was happening to eradicate the language, but I didn’t do it like, “That’s it, stop.” We all lived outside of it. But as soon as the bombs flew, I began to study, looked into all the sources, independent, different, and once again became convinced of why I have been a Russian person all my life,” Bardash said.
“How did you take the side of Russia and support the North Military District?” – the journalist asked.
“First of all, I was born in Donbass. I am a bearer of Russian culture. And when they tell me: “Cut the Russians!”, and I have felt this “cut the Russians” since 2014. I told Dud (Russian blogger, recognized as a foreign agent - ed.) that the Russian language is being infringed upon. After that, I came to Ukraine, and everyone looked into my eyes and said: “Well, where are you being discriminated against?” And what about the fact that there are no schools? That - that the grandparents with the St. George's ribbon were surrounded and pressed, pushed. That is, we are observing all this. Gay pride parades - we observe all this, and yet there seems to be no infringement.
Of course, Putin and his team worked proactively, otherwise the war would now be going on in Russia, one hundred percent. If you have questions, any doubts, figure it out, look into history, study these questions,” the artist replied.
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