Petersburg choir sang about the US atomic bombing. VIDEO

The St. Petersburg Chamber Choir sang a song about a nuclear submarine that is preparing to strike at Washington. The song was performed 23 February in St. Isaac's Cathedral at a concert dedicated to the Defender of the Fatherland Day. In the evening of February 25 this record blew up the social networks, writes with the BBC.

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The author of the song “On a submarine, or about the salaries of military personnel,” blues musician, former member of the Petrovich Band, Andrei Kozlovsky, says that he wrote it in 1980 while studying at a Leningrad university.

“I regularly attended the military department, where half the course was taught to be navigators of military transport aviation, and the other half was turned into commander of a motorized rifle platoon. Sometimes we managed to break through in formation to the nearest beer stall in mechanics' uniforms and with non-working machine guns. There was a formation, but there was no drill song. That’s what I came up with,” Kozlovsky said.

“The song is banter. That’s all, really,” he insists.

The choir director Vladimir Begletsov adheres to the same point of view: it was a joke without any political context.

“Sorry, we are not involved in politics. The song is humorous and does not contain any appeals. The audience gave a standing ovation,” he answered a question from the BBC.

The choir’s statement on VKontakte said that “there is no need to seriously delve into discussions about Putin and anti-Putin concerts.”

“The songs we sing are documents of the era, the environment, unique and completely original. Of course, we do not rewrite texts for the sake of political correctness or any other market situation,” the statement says. The choir also reminds that a concert in a church does not oblige you to sing only liturgical works.

"Clearly inappropriate"

Protodeacon Andrei Kuraev was among those users of social networks who condemned the performance of such a song in St. Isaac's Cathedral.

“The song itself is old, from the Soviet underground. Then it was a joke and even a satire on Soviet agitprop. But today, after Putin’s “cartoons” and “jokes,” and even in such a super-serious performance, it doesn’t look like a joke,” he wrote on LiveJournal.

In the St. Petersburg Diocese, the song about the US nuclear bombardment performed by the Chamber Choir collective was not approved.

“Choral performances in St. Isaac’s Cathedral occur quite regularly, and the very fact of performing music appropriate for the church space does not cause any rejection. But this repertoire performed by a fairly well-known group, of course, is surprising,” Natalya Rodomanova, head of the communications sector of the St. Petersburg Metropolitanate, told Interfax.

According to her, it is surprising that this kind of repertoire could, in principle, be performed on Defender of the Fatherland Day, not to mention the fact that the venue for the performance of such a work was chosen “clearly inappropriately.”

“Still, St. Isaac’s Cathedral was the main cathedral of the Russian Empire, and the choir, which performs against the background of the royal doors with the image of Christ, the Mother of God, and saints, of course, should think about the repertoire sounding in this space,” says Rodomanova.

“It seems to us that the taste has clearly changed for such a famous St. Petersburg group, and we very much regret that such an event took place in St. Petersburg, and even more so in St. Isaac’s Cathedral,” added the representative of the diocese.

The Culture Committee of the St. Petersburg Administration reminded the BBC that the choir is subordinate to the St. Isaac's Cathedral museum-monument.

In turn, museum press secretary Igor Stakheev said that Andrei Kozlovsky’s song “On a Submarine, or About the Salary of Military Personnel” was performed without the consent of the museum administration.

At the 23 February concert, at the end of the watch program, the choir members sang songs by Vladimir Vysotsky and other bards after classical pieces.

The full recording of the speech was posted on the official channel of the St. Petersburg team on YouTube, but the day of February 26 was already out.

The beginning of the song is:

“On a nuclear-powered submarine

Yes, with a dozen bombs under a hundred megatons

Crossed the Atlantic and the call of the gunner:

“Point, I say, Petrov, at the city of Washington!”

True la la, true la la,

I can do everything for three rubles!

Hello, new land

The enemy!

Russia and the United States at the beginning of this year aboutannounced suspension participation in the Treaty on Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF). Moscow did this in response to a Washington decision accusing Russia of violating the treaty. Russia, in turn, accused of violating the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week in an annual message рассказал about new types of strategic weapons. This tradition he laid in March last year.

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