Pugacheva’s husband is afraid that things are heading towards Jewish pogroms in Ukraine
In Russia, unlike Belarus, you can freely joke about the leader of the country, and in the situation in which Ukraine finds itself, a Jewish president can provoke modern anti-Semitic pogroms.
About this in an interview with the project “Should we talk?” said Russian parodist and showman Maxim Galkin, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“In my entire life, there has never been a time when I was limited in what I say at my concert. And as long as I can be ironic and joke about the existing regime, I can work. I must be able to make people laugh, including by telling them the truth, because, more often than not, nothing is as funny as the bitter truth. Sometimes the opportunity to broadcast this through the “box” is taken away from me, but this is not my lack of freedom.
No one has ever restricted me, including when I spoke in front of them, including Putin, including in the Kremlin Palace. No one has ever asked me for a text in advance - “What am I going to joke about now?” - said Galkin.
He compared how tolerant jokes about the country's leadership are in Russia and Belarus.
“I’m talking about big concerts – Police Day, Internal Troops Day. I go on stage, people are sitting, including him, I amuse everyone, including being able to make fun of him.
When was the last time I was at the Slavic Bazaar (in Minsk - ed.), and they always tried to limit me in jokes about Lukashenko, I did exactly the opposite, I said everything I wanted from the stage,” the artist added.
Touching on the topic of his former colleague, and now Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, Galkin expressed serious concerns, given the rise of anti-Semitism in Ukraine.
“I am watching with great concern what is happening now in Ukraine, because the fact that the President of Ukraine is a Jew under the current circumstances and Zelensky’s rather difficult situation does not make me very happy. Because I believe that with any “misunderstandings” in countries such as Ukraine or Russia, all this can only end in one thing: pogroms. “I am really very afraid of this, because I am not indifferent to the fate of those who live in Ukraine, this is indeed a great danger, because, unfortunately, this has not gone away,” Galkin said.
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