MOSCOW: The diva of Soviet popular music, Alla Pugacheva, spoke out on Sunday against President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, saying it was killing soldiers for meaningless reasons, burdening regular people and leaving Russia in the eyes of the world. I was making a handicap.
Since the invasion on February 24, Russia has cracked down on dissent, fined artists who expressed anti-war sentiments. Critics on state television are portrayed as a betrayal of the motherland.
Pugacheva, 73, a post-Soviet icon who is arguably Russia's most famous woman and Soviet icon, asked Russia to classify her as a "foreign agent", telling her husband, TV comedian Maxim Galkin, 46, to was added to the state. list on 16 september
"I ask you to include me in the ranks of foreign agents of your beloved country because I stand in solidarity with my husband," Pugacheva posted on Instagram, a social media site banned by the Russian government.
According to Pugacheva, her husband was a patriot who wanted a peaceful, free and prosperous nation with an end to "the death of our boys for illusory purposes".
Pugacheva claimed that as the conflict ended the lives of Russians, Russia was becoming an "alien". Although he avoided using the word "war", he made it clear that he opposed referring to the Kremlin as a special military operation.
Such scathing criticism of one of Russia's most famous figures is unusual and potentially dangerous in contemporary Russia. The man is recognized across generations for hits such as the 1982 song "Million Scarlet Roses" and the 1978 film "The Woman Who Sings". It also shows how concerned the Russian elite as a whole is about the war.
The first sign that officers are serious is often someone designated as a "foreign agent". The label carries a bad reputation from the Soviet era, and those who use it must feature it prominently on all of their published material. They also have to comply with tough financial and administrative requirements.
Both Putin and Boris Yeltsin have praised Pugacheva in the past. He praised the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev after his death, for promoting independence and rejecting violence.
Putin now portrays the conflict in Ukraine as an attempt to thwart Western attempts to destroy Russia, which he claims will fail like the Nazi and Napoleonic invasions of 1812 and 1941, respectively.
According to Ukraine, it is resisting Russian occupation in an imperial style and will not stop until every soldier is ejected. The conflict has killed thousands, caused the global economy to experience a wave of inflation and escalated geopolitical tensions to levels not seen since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
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