Masha Lyubicheva Biography

Forbid me, do not forbid me-I’ll make a concert for myself. If you look at the historical retrospective, then flirting with the authorities will only lead to the fact that the Lithuanian of the texts will begin ..., only permitted events and festivals will begin. In the end, all the artists will come to the need not only not to speak out “against”, but to speak actively “for”.

They will be invited to further speak, this “ass of the president”, about which Shevchuk spoke, actively lick! Maria Lyubicheva, vocalist of the Barto group, composer, poet, artist. Maria believes that today in Russia it is important to show by any means that you are against war. So that everyone who is against it understands that he was not alone and did not go crazy.

See in the new issue of “eyewitnesses” completely interviews with Maria Lyubicheva. Tell me about myself from Russia, I am the vocalist of the Barto group, musician, composer, author of the texts too. I am 44 years old. In addition to Barto, I am also an artist. I am engaged in art in the broad sense of the word. I am an artist, I am still a poet, I am engaged in various musical projects, not only Barto, I have a solo project “Nosokha”.

I am an artist. The first thoughts and feelings on February 24? This is a very terrible sensation. This is some kind of straight, you know, a numbness inside, some kind of cold. Just some kind of horror. The inability to understand at all, to comprehend that this is happening to me, with my country. At the same time, unlike my friends who did not believe to the end, that there would be a war, that we would attack, I have been going on for almost a couple of weeks with the feeling that everything around me indicated that the war would be, that all this would happen.

This security advice was just a nightmare. When I saw all this, I did not believe my eyes. It seems that I was sent to a scoop by car. The fact that Putin is Stalin, that around these people who mumble something insane, this State Duma, in which the Communists have cheerfully adopted these packages of laws on the recognition of the independence of the LPR and the DPR, the Communists, who had passed before, as opposition deputies, are all such a disgrace!

But this does not cancel the fact that despite the fact that I was already waiting, that it would be all, and even the day before was the birthday of our girlfriend, in our large company of theateraries and people of art, we gathered just, and discussed the situation, all tension and intensity, and no one believed. Everyone said, no-no, no, this cannot be, this simply cannot be. I stood, looked at Belinsky Street in St.

Petersburg and realized that tomorrow was war. And tomorrow is war. But to accept, it was impossible to understand all the same. That is, I spent this day in horror and in a daze. Why did Putin attack Ukraine? I think that one of the reasons, of course, is the retention of power, because the rating fell. I tried to follow all this. Another reason is the revenge of old people who see that youth is coming.

And youth, indeed, occurs despite the fact that we have a demographic pit in this regard, we have much less young people. But youth always occurs, this is normal. But here people cannot give power at all. They simply can’t let it out, and even some young people are there, even from their own environment, this is generally impossible, well, how is it at all. And plus, it also seems to me that Putin somehow considers himself a collector of land, such an epigone of Peter, I don’t know, maybe Vladimir, something like that.

He always turns to them in his speeches, who write him, as I understand it, all kinds of political technologists, speakers. Nevertheless, he reads, he is not a fool, he understands that he is pronouncing. And these are all the appeals to ancient Russian history, to the power of Russian weapons, the fatherland, and these are all imperial manners, it also manifests itself.

It seems to me some part, small, there is also. The Revenge of the Stock, too, is the most important geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century! Oh really! The most important geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century is the Second World War! And not the breakdown of the scoop, which was already clear that it is economically not tenacious. These are the stilt pensioners!

I really want to hope that something that is happening now is the last, in the agony of the empire, the convulsions of these dudes that would like faster than the drives on the carriages. Zhirinovsky, sorry, did not set the tone. Why do many support the war in Russia? This is a big question, in fact, how many people in Russia support this war. Firstly, there is no sociology now, it was only the lazy did not notice, but this is true.

That is, we cannot at all rely on this data. If earlier, at the beginning, in February, March, one could still say that some part supports, now I have great doubts that most of the people supports. Most people are silent. Because at some point, power for many years, almost ten years, gives everything to the head. And every year, every year even year, with every six months, a quarter, gives the head more tougher.In St.

Petersburg there were very harsh detentions, and when Navalny returned, and now, on anti -war actions. They simply beat everyone, women, youth, old people, without any problems at all, without any moral dilemmas from these people who were recruited to the Rosguard and in all kinds of protective police detachments. On their side, power, on their side weapons, on their side, a law that allows you to beat, shoot, and generally do anything with peaceful demonstrators.

These are frostbitten people, sometimes it seems to me. I look at some police officers, they behave inadequately in ordinary life. These are people with whom it is better at all, at all not to stop. This is worse than bandits. These people are some insane. Such people who now have weapons, batons. And it is clear that once again no one wants to talk about it.

The atmosphere of fear, pressure, it is very strong in Russia. If earlier, for example, I could calmly talk, and I love to talk so much with people, I communicate with who I communicate with, I meet a lot of people, and they also talk to me, because I am an artist, and if I calmly asked people unfamiliar about the attitude to the war, the attitude to the special operation, as I formulated, now these people are not just asking me, and why are you asking, but you are from, but you are from, but from where you are from, but from where you are from, but from nowhere Ukraine, why are you asking such questions?

Why does the majority of musicians support the war? Well, all first people. We have always been the musicians, to put it mildly, not very active. The government also worked well in this regard. In the sense that if you are engaged in politics, you are engaged in activism, then as soon as your own fellow citizens and people who have a relationship with culture do not call you.

You are with them both Demshiz and Liberd, and in general it does not matter what views you adhere to, you will simply come up with some kind of humiliating nickname. Musicians, many of my scene colleagues, they adhere to just such a point of view - my hut with the edge, they will not let me work. In general, it is. Look now at Shevchuk, how much an authoritative musician we have, and he must say that he still speaks out accurately quite neatly, but nevertheless, his concerts are prohibited.

Bi-2 concerts prohibit. That is, everyone who performed with an anti -war position, everyone is on the sidelines at once. I, as an underground-musician, is not very scary. In general, as the underground was, and remained. Forbid the underground, do not forbid, I make a concert for myself. If you look at the historical retrospective, then all these flirting and agreement with the authorities are only leading to the fact that the litter of texts will begin.

She will begin soon. Only permitted events and festivals will begin. In the end, all these artists, they will face a choice, and even this will not be a choice, they will not only not speak out “against”, but express actively “for”. They will be offered in order to continue to speak calmly, this “ass of the president” about which Shevchuk says, will be proposed to be actively licking.

Do you feel guilty for what is happening? The situation when you wake up and feel the guilt inside the fact that you are a citizen of the aggressor state, and in fact rashism-fascism, what we do is monstrous, and we must investigate these crimes. Of course, we must understand that there is propaganda on the other hand. I am not a naive person who thinks that everything that I hear from Ukraine is some news, this is all good and true, and all that I hear in Russia is only a lie.

But all the same, the feeling of guilt that is, with him I just had to work inside for a long time. Because, on the one hand, I never voted for Putin, and in general, for the last fifteen years, I have certainly spoke against the authorities, and we have been actively broadcasting our position as a group, and I am as a person. If you look at my social networks, I shouted: “Wolves, wolves!

My first husband, the founder of Barto, Alexei Rustyov, we are historians, and the fact that we saw, in fact, the tendency to harden, return to totalitarianism, we still have not totalitarianism, an authoritarian state now, but for us these trends were obvious. And we tried to talk about it. And around we got this return, you are a demshiz, yes you carry some kind of garbage, why are you screaming, let's just sing songs about love.