Putin Zassal
It has now been two weeks since Putin began his brutal illegal invasion of Ukraine. The carnage of Ukraine has little to do with a thousand years of Russian history and everything to do with the terminal crisis of Putin’s dictatorship.
Do you realise that Russia is an Asian country? It’s often thought of as a European nation because the two largest cities, Moscow and St Petersburg are on the European continental plate, but actually, only 23% of Russian is in Europe, with the remaining 77% being Asian. KOMODO takes a keen interest in the alternative and underground music scenes of Asian Russia.
PUSSY RIOT @wearepussyriot the Russian feminist protest punk rock and performance art group has long been a prominent face of Russian opposition to President Vladimir Putin. They have millions of Russian supporters - many in their early 30s or younger - and their music and campaigns reach tens of millions more outside Russia.
At 6 AM and 6 PM (Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast, Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Bali) each day KOMODO breaks midway into regular programming to play the PUSSY RIOT song "Putin Zassal”. The title of the song has been variously translated into English as "Putin Has Pissed Himself", "Putin Chickened Out", "Putin Got Scared" and "Putin is Wetting Himself”; so take your pick.
Over recent months KOMODO has been building contacts with the burgeoning underground music scene in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Magadan where a whole raft of the weird and wonderful is created. For the time being, we have parked this project, but will certainly revisit it as underground alternative music is a likely fuel to drive the inevitable leadership change in Russia.
Putin is a despot on borrowed time. The Putin regime relies upon its massive apparatus of repression, propaganda and disinformation to support its aggressive foreign policy. Now Putin has unleashed a conflagration that will surely lead to his demise.
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