Yuri Shevtsuk, the sacred monster of Russian rock, is accused of defaming the Russian army for denouncing during a concert the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putinwith his statements provoked several reactions from the supporters of the war and the Russian president, to whom he gave his own answer.
On May 18 during the concert of the rock band DDT in the city of Ufa (central Russia) Yuri Shefchuk Addressing the spectators who had flooded the hall, he said: “And right now in Ukraine people are being killed. For what reason; Our boys are killed there. For what reason; What are the goals friends? Young people in Russia and Ukraine are being killed again, the elderly, women and children are being killed. For the sake of some Napoleonic plans of our Caesar, yes? Homeland friends, are not the back of the president, which we have to fool around all the time, to kiss. Homeland is the poor grandmother who sells potatoes at the train station “.
His remarks on the president’s backside provoked reactions from Putin’s supporters and the war in Ukraine, who wrote or trolled Shevchuk on social media, writing: “What backside does Shevchuk kiss, if he does not like the president’s backside”.
Shevchuk responded to the interview in Novaya gazeta.Europe as follows: “Answer them that it does not matter. Kissing in the back is not my destination in this world. But I can tell them one more thing: let them kiss the sweet buttocks of their wives. This is much more human, than licking power and not thinking with their own mind. The important thing is to have your own opinion about the world, and not the one that is imposed on you, to have a point of view that arises through thoughts. To be the result of different information and not to come from the “box”, to read on the internet “.
Yuri Shevtsuk risks being fined 30-50,000 rubles if he is defamed by the Russian army. In case he repeats the crime of defamation of the Russian, he can be prosecuted. On May 20, the famous musician, citing Article 51 of the Russian Constitution, refused to give explanations. The administrative case was transferred from Ufa’s court to St. Petersburg’s court.
Shevchuk, as the leader of the rock band DDT, which was also famous in the former USSR, had denounced Vladimir Putin’s rule over the years, even denouncing him during a televised 2010 meeting.
He was also one of the supporters of a huge controversy in Russia in 2011-2012suppressed by the Kremlin.
Before the Putin era, Yuri Shevchuk had distinguished himself for his campaign against the first Chechen war (1994-1996).
He began his career in the 1980s, the last decade of the USSR, gaining popularity because of his anti-systemic songs in this crisis-ridden empire. With the fall of the USSR in 1991, Shevchuk was already a form of Russian rock.
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