The pussy riot released a music video focusing on what they define as their “statement against the war that started Vladimir Putin in the neighboring country. The Russian punk group chose Christmas day to send a new message against the government of the kremlin. A new protest, by the feminist collective, which has already suffered jail terms in the past for its provocative messages in favor of LGBT+ rights, feminism and freedom of expression.
“Since the beginning of the war, on February 24, military censorship was introduced in Russia. It is forbidden to call a war a war, it is forbidden to publish materials about the war that have not been verified by the Kremlin.”denounced the activists in a statement and added: “Anger, indignation and discontent. They are a desperate cry of reproach against Putin’s bloodthirsty puppets, led by a veritable cannibalistic monster, whose place is in the infinity of fierce infernal flames on the bones of the victims of this terrible war.”
The Moscow feminist punk collective, born in 2011, is made up of approximately 10 performers, in addition to technicians and digital communicators. The curiosity is that all the members of the team use pseudonyms and avoid, as far as possible or with few exceptions, being recorded or photographed without balaclavas or masks.
This year, the claim focused on the freezing of Western bank accounts and the property of Russian officials and oligarchs, as well as the involvement of an international court trying Vladimir Putin. These protests had renowned antecedents in the invasion of the playing field of the World Cup final Russia 2018 and in the assault on the Russian Orthodox cathedral of christ savior from 2012.
In the video you can see images of suitcases dripping with blood on terraces where wealthy people drink coffee intertwined with sequences of bombings and broken dolls while a chorus is heard: “Mom, don’t watch TV”. The phrase and title of the song, which the Pussy Riot perform from a basement dug into the ground down a narrow, dimly lit staircase, comes from a captured Russian recruit’s phone conversation with his mother.
“Russian propaganda daily poisons the hearts of people with hate. The Foreign Agents Act it is used to silence opposition activists and journalists, to stop the activities of the last independent human rights organizations”, warn the feminist musical group and add: “We are against this shameful war waged by Putin, and to stop this war we must unite, unite against the fascist regime.”
In the video the singers also appear barefaced at concerts with audiences or interpreting the lyrics. With them, opposition figures who suffered poisoning, such as Alexander Litvinenko or Alexei Navalny. The activists conclude with a message for the population: “Please, do not participate in this war! Don’t take mobilization notices, don’t go to the military police station, don’t listen to propaganda!”
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