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It’s all lost. All lost. None of this
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makes the slightest bit of sense anymore.
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Alexei, please, you have to
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record one more video.
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What new video? What for? Don’t you
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understand what’s happening at all? All of
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this is meaningless. Now everything
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is meaningless. The audience of schoolchildren and
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students is lost to us forever.
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Simply forever. No one will ever again
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listen to what we say. And
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certainly no one will ever come to
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anti-corruption rallies. Because the Kremlin,
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oh, those devilishly cunning schemers in the Kremlin,
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has come up with an absolutely brilliant move
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after releasing that incredibly powerful,
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convincing video about how I’m Hitler.
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This is our country, and our task is
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to destroy all those who are drinking
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our blood.
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Then came the next stage of their devious plan.
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Now they simply hand over money
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to various trendy youth-oriented performers, and
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those performers put out videos on YouTube saying
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that people shouldn’t go to rallies. They shouldn’t
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fight corruption, and shouldn’t even
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take any interest in politics. First, the rapper
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Ptakha showed video footage from the March 26
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protests over his divine rap about how
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the demonstrations were attended by spoiled rich kids.
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Spoiled rich kids are sitting on poles.
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And Uncle Sam is behind all of it.
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And the word “democracy” in this track
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is used exclusively as
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an insult. Democratic boom.
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Freedom.
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This is, of course, an extremely serious—truly
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extremely serious—blow to all of us. Because
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all of you who went out into the streets on March 26,
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you know yourselves that you’re spoiled rich kids,
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that Uncle Sam is behind you, that you went out
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into the streets not so that Russia
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would stop being an impoverished country where
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everything is stolen, but simply because
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you’re, well, I don’t know, spoiled by excess and
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trying to kill time during that period
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when your parents have already bought you the iPhone 7,
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but the iPhone 8 hasn’t come out yet,
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so you went out into the street and climbed onto
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a pole.
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In other words, you’ve all been exposed. The rapper Ptakha
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has shown your true colors. And it’s also
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very interesting that rapper Ptakha
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had the courage not to disable
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the comments on that video. So now we
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can all read how successfully he managed to convince
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his audience, how everyone is writing to him:
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“Well done, rapper Ptakha, we’ll never go
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to rallies again.”
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Singer Alisa Vox, meanwhile, even
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disabled the comments. You can tell right away
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she’s a modest, shy person. She doesn’t
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want to read all the praise people are giving her. In
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her trendy music video, the former lead singer
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of the band Leningrad sings about foolish
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little kids, the ones who think about politics
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instead of thinking about school. He
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goes
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with unsteady hands
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toward his shore.
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She also takes a good swipe at those who
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promised mountains of gold and euros. Well, obviously,
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that’s about me. After all, I did say that we would all
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win our cases in the European Court.
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Who exactly promised gold and euros?
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He only, Mariomenko,
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lost at life.
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Still, the magnanimous Alisa Vox
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does leave us one small
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chance. She sings it like this:
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It’s never too late
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to learn from your mistakes.
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If your heart longs for change, then start
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with yourself.
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What wise words. Don’t want, little one,
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Medvedev to have palaces
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and vineyard estates and yachts? Well then, start with yourself.
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Why are you just sitting there staring at
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the screen? Go on, start with yourself.
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Don’t like the fact that the oligarch Usmanov
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trades in Russian raw materials, doesn’t pay
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taxes in Russia, and becomes one of
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the richest people in the UK? Well,
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start with yourself there too. Do something,
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clean your room, for once. But what else
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don’t you like? The fact that television is full of
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censorship and endless lies? But that’s
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your fault too. Why did you lie to your mom
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last month? Start with yourself. Very
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true—Alisa Vox says it all exactly right. And
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she finishes with an absolute masterpiece.
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Freedom, money, girls—you’ll have it all, even
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power.
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Don’t meddle in politics, kid,
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and go learn your lesson.
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Honestly, I didn’t quite catch the end there,
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it wasn’t very clear. Either she said,
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“Go learn your lesson,” or she said,
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“Go learn to keep quiet.” The second one
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fits the meaning even better. Maybe
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Alisa Vox or rapper Ptakha will use
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that in the next song: Kid, go
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learn to keep quiet. You stay quiet while the grown-ups
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carve up your money. And if
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you still don’t want to stay quiet, they’ll
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take a small portion of the money they stole and give it
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to sellout performers, who will once again
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explain to you, in a trendy
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youth-oriented style, that staying quiet
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really is what you should do. So most likely, our June 12 rally has failed.
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Everything had been going so well.
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Everything was going so well until
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Navalny showed up. Everything was just great.
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One hundred eighty-two cities have signed up. And at this point I would normally
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say to you again, as usual,
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there’s a link in the description below. Find your
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city and join in, or organize
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another rally and become city number 183.
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But I’m not going to say that, because
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now everything is pointless. Rapper Ptakha and
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Alisa Vox have convinced us all otherwise. And
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there will be even more artists like that going forward,
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you know, the kind who love money. The Kremlin has
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plenty of money—they take it straight out of our pockets,
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after all. It’s awful, just awful.
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Stay strong, Alexei, stay strong.
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Don’t subscribe to our channel. Here
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they may speak the truth, but it’s all
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pointless.