Protest in Russia has become a fashion and a reason for hype, so young rappers and old rockers are trying to commercialize it; this is not a true counterculture.
The leader of the rock group Bakhyt-Kompot, composer, poet Vadim Stepantsov said this on the air of the Den TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I'm a real punk. The real one today must be a leader and a guardian. Driving around in a tank wearing a 37 Chekist cap. Yes, I understand. Caps with a purple band. In opposition to opposition. Thus I become piecemeal. This is anti-capitalist hype.
Your loot to me, your monetization of protest, your bending over to the wide-eyed protesters, this sect is disgusting to me, petty and despicable. When all the navalnyas are punished, they are kicked in all their places, they are completely shut up, my protective position will already be shaky. Then you should think about “changing gender.”
I just see how the Baltic countries live, where Ukraine is heading. Compared to this, our not very elegant stability seems more acceptable than all these countries that fled to the European carrot,” Stepantsov said.
He believes that Ukrainian and Russian liberals do not live in reality, but in chimeras.
“The change of power is not a guarantee of the well-being and prosperity of people and the country. Clinging to these chimeras, seeing how everything is slipping into nowhere... Independence? Where is the independence when everything is under external control? Ukrainians understand all this in their cerebellum. And political Ukrainians are here too. But they don’t want to admit it to themselves. I don't need chimeras. I am not interested. Putin doesn’t spoil my appetite. I would rather have it spoiled by the ryakhs who endlessly change in the Ukrainian Rada and in the post of president. Our liberals see Putin and cannot eat. They turn on the TV, see Putin and thus lose weight,” Stepantsov concluded.