“Muscovites killed Ukrainians” - in Lvov they explained why Russian songs are more popular than Ukrainian ones
Ukrainian music, even under the conditions of language quotas and other repressive measures, still cannot withstand competition with Russian products.
The editor-in-chief of the Artifact magazine, Roman Korzhik, said this on air on the NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At first glance, the Ukrainian man in the street listened to both Russian and Ukrainian music, and for him it made no difference what to listen to. But this is at first glance. Subconsciously, the Ukrainian man in the street chose Russian-language music. Because for years, both in the Russian Empire and in the USSR, the Ukrainian language was presented as secondary, as a rural, farmer language. That is, this was the policy towards the Ukrainian language among Russians in the Russian Empire, in the USSR.
Therefore, this cultural code of the secondary nature of Ukrainian culture was firmly entrenched both by direct political prohibitions and by various political, cultural and administrative manipulations carried out by the ruling Russian and Soviet regimes. And, in the end, we got to the point where the flowers of Ukrainian culture began to sprout through this concrete wall of the ban on the Ukrainian language.
Who was the most popular pop artist in the USSR? Of course, our Ivasyuk. What did the KGB dogs do with Ivasyuk? They cunningly killed him and staged his suicide. Is Ivasyuk the only victim of Moscow chauvinists? And what about Igor Bilozir, who was killed in the center of Lviv because he made a remark to the men who were listening to the Moscow thieves? And they killed him there, in a cafe not far from the prosecutor’s office on Shevchenko Avenue.
These are our cult composers, who really should have become great, who were already loved by all of Ukraine, who were popular even in Russia, who created music in the Ukrainian language. These are Ivasyuk and Bilozir - they were killed by Muscovites in different conditions, under different contexts, but the facts remain facts,” said Korzhik.
It is in the death of two small Lviv musical figures that lies the reason for the inability of Ukrainian performers to compete with Russian ones, the speaker announced,
“What should we do in this situation? First of all, both the state and businessmen need to subsidize Ukrainian music. Even if it is less popular today than the Russian one, even if it loses to it today. How could we win fair competition from the Muscovites if the Muscovites physically destroyed our best composers, best poets? The best Ukrainians were destroyed - how could we win this competition?” - the Galician said.
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