Three Tune Tuesday #144 .:. Made in Russia

Shevchuk is an old established rocker from the generation of the 80s, ex-USSR, and he is used to fighting the authorities, not licking their ass. This is a great artist... back in 2008, he wrote this song, which veiledly expresses wishes for Putin to die... and in the form of direct text, it explains that we are going along the wrong road - the root of evil is that some people have seized political power and with its help earn “resource rent”, in the case of Russia this is oil and gas.

By the way, political scientists publish scientific studies devoted to this issue - in world history this is not at all unique, but the most common, typical phenomenon, its features are already well studied and known. The song message is: the folks will return to a normal, good life again ONLY after all the country's oil and gas resources will be consumed, finished, run out - on that blessed day all the banks will burst, AND OUR PRESIDENT WILL DIE!

A timeless masterpiece of punk-rock, created back in 1990 when USSR still could be seen on the map, where now one can see Russia / Ukrain / Georgia and all the rest ex-soviet state shards... It was actual pre-2000, in 2000, and even after Mr.Gorbachev have died in 2022 - it is still actual. Yeah, you cant find an elegant arrangement or beautiful sound here, the key song feature is its uncompromising message. Let me create a partial translation for English-speaking readers:

The investment plan does not allow my love! To have this option on, you need concrete, you need walls, doors, bolts, all the stuff. I need my own concrete house even for an option to walk around naked, without pants. One cant die without having a house, one cant make love without having a house. Gosplan and Gosstroy do not allow my love. They promise me result only in 2000. What can I do? nothing but wait. By the time I will become 45 years old, bald and toothless.

Do punish them, dear Comrade Gorbachev! Do punish them, as you are our Big Brother / Father! Do set on them your KGB agents, do send after them your evil police! Please, avenge for my (unhappened) love.