Alla Pugacheva: "Freedom – the ultimate value"
She posted her new message on her Instagram page. The singer addressed the envious and explained whom she refers to as slaves.
"It's amusing and sad to watch a bunch of brazen inadequacies, envious individuals, and slanderers.
You are so amusing! By the way, it's you whom I called slaves and servants; the people, in this case, are not to blame; they are hostages of the current situation. I love them and pity them, while with your rude remarks towards me, absurd fabrications, and shameless lies, you try to push away the people for whom I've lived and sung my whole life, sacrificing my health and personal life.
It won't work, no matter how hard you try. So don't waste your strength and resources on futile attempts to destroy me or devalue my life and creativity. My multimillion army of fans will not betray me!"
Whether the people are hostages is a highly acute topic. Is slavery a distinctive feature of the Russian population, or is it not that simple? How to describe what the Russians live by? Support, silent complicity, an inability to self-determination?
Well, at least Pugacheva herself shows that she is aware of herself to the maximum extent.
And she knows how to make decisions.
Mission accomplished
"I've fulfilled my mission; I haven't been singing for a long time, and the universe governs my destiny."
The singer also recalled the concert she gave in 1986 for the liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. "And don't bother counting the number of hairs on my head (thanks to Chernobyl, at least something is left). And my voice, tired as it is, still sounds, considering that for half a century, despite illnesses, I ran to my beloved audience and did everything to make them happy."
Her pathos takes on an almost biblical tone. "And the legs walk, and the eyes see, and the ears hear."
The artist dedicated angry lines to everyone who likes to delve into others' pockets.
"Are you counting my money? Yes, I worked hard for it; I earned it, unlike those who wasted and drank away their star hour and baselessly claim that Alla Pugacheva deprived them of oxygen. How convenient, isn't it?"
Freedom is the main value
And, finally, the last, perhaps the most important, passage of her letter: about true values. And about hope. She spoke about what she considers paramount in life.
"And happiness is not in money. Freedom is the ultimate value. I cherish it within myself, live by it, and will strive to live until the victory of light over darkness, the victory of good over evil, the victory of truth over slander.
We continue to live on!"
In conclusion, Alla Borisovna also mentioned her former protégé Yaroslav Dronov, better known as Shaman, a compliant performer who now sings from every corner in Russia. "Once I asked Yaroslav Dronov to say one important phrase, and now I will say it myself, even though no one is asking me: 'You will hear from me again!' Whether you want it or not, life shows that I am still in your hearts.
Thank you."
"I request to be enrolled among foreign agents"
Criticism towards Pugacheva from influential Russian media channels is primarily linked to the fact that shortly after the start of armed actions in Ukraine, she not only did not support them but also left Russia with her husband, the artist Maxim Galkin, and their children, relocating to Israel.
Galkin himself has repeatedly criticized the Russian military operation. On the day of its commencement, February 24, 2022, he stated that there could be no justification for it. In April of the previous year, Galkin said that Russia was to blame for "so many terrible things" and yet claimed not to be guilty.
In September 2022, the Russian Ministry of Justice included Galkin in the registry of foreign agents. Following this, Pugacheva published an "appeal to the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation," in which she requested to be included "among the ranks of foreign agents of her beloved country."
"I request to be enrolled among the ranks of foreign agents of my beloved country because I stand in solidarity with my husband, an honest, decent, and sincere person, a true and incorruptible patriot of Russia, desiring prosperity, a peaceful life, freedom of speech, and an end to the loss of our guys for illusory goals that make our country an outcast and burden the lives of our citizens," wrote the singer.
In October of the previous year, Pugacheva stated that it is a "joy" that she is "hated" by people whom she "could never stand."
"If they liked me, it would mean I sang and lived in vain. The reason is clear. Let them grind their teeth. They were serfs, now they are slaves."
Commentators
Commentators on social media mostly support Pugacheva. A characteristic argument with an element of implicit polemics:
"Pugacheva, by the way, is a very good example of everyone having a threshold for accepting the ongoing mess. No matter how much you supported a person before, there will still be a point after which some people will turn away from them. It's sad to realize that for many people, this line has not been crossed. Or maybe it's entirely absent. And in the end, it will be 'The Norm' of Sorokin, and no one will object..."
