Russian patriotic singer Shaman cosplays a Nazi on the Red Square in his latest video clip. He’s dressed in leather jacket and gloves, armband on his left arm raised up, his hair dyed blond for that Arian look while singing “God is with us.” Joseph Goebbels would approve.
Russian intelligence services (former KGB) propelled Yaroslav Dronov aka Shaman to pop music stardom.
Dronov became a patriotic singer megastar in a matter of a month monopolizing airwaves with such hits as “I’m Russian” (Lyrics contain an interesting pun: “I’m Russian, to spite/to bring evil to the whole world”) and “Rising” in which he riffs off Bruce Springsteen comparing Invasion of Ukraine with the aftermath of 9–11 terrorist attacks.
With Shaman pet project, KGB’s goal was to promote patriarchy, machismo, patriotism (=support of Putin’s regime), wholesome family and Orthodox Christian values to young people as a counterweight to ungodly Americansky-style hip-hop artist Morgenstern who sings about money, chicks, fast cars, and who resides in Dubaisk Emiratsky Arabsky next to thieving Russian public officials.
The KGB pet project family name Dronov is ironic given that Russian Army in Ukraine is being exterminated with armed drones, and doubly strange the choice of the stage name Shaman - a pagan witch doctor - who wears a wooden Protestant cross that distinctly doesn’t look anywhere near Byzantine Orthodox Christian cross with two extra bars, curvy lines and elaborate ornament that Russians normally wear.
Moreover, Drone Shaman is a metrosexual, sleek guy miles away from rugged masculinity that Russians view as an ideal.
When Shaman with his Protestant cross and Hitlerjugend haircut inserts a microphone into his leather pants and sings “We’ll remember those who went out to fight for freedom and not medals,” Russians scratch their heads and ask themselves how can they relate to this one hundred per cent Americansky clone.
One would think that Shaman dressed up as Hitlerjugend, throwing Nazi salute and chanting Nazi slogan in the heart of Russia where military parades are staged annually to celebrate the defeat of Nazism, crossed a red line.
No, he didn’t. Or at least nobody noticed. Russians , who got off their knees after Yeltsin’s era, promptly tripped over and lie prostrate licking the thieves’ boots, really don’t give a crap.
They pay huge sums of money to bands and singers who systematically lip-synch music recordings at the concerts - a small example that shows you that even musicians hold ordinary Russians in utter contempt and don’t bother to even sing for them for the money they pay.
But the real champ is Russian President Vladimir Putin who sends his lookalikes to meet ordinary people whom he treats as subhuman and recently whetted Digital Gulag to keep tabs on draft dodgers and regime critics.
Russians are used as doormats their upper classes wipe their feet on, and now in addition the whole world has joined the fray to pity and despise them.
The obvious resemblance between Shaman’s look and Hitler’s Youth is eerie especially given that the main goal of the Special Military Operation is denazification of Ukraine. They must be denazified in Moscow starting with Shaman.
Shaman reimagined with armband bearing Putin’s swastika.
Putin’s one million strong YunArmiya is Hitlerjugend concept recreated with sleek paramilitary uniforms, Boy Scout sensibilities and guns, guns, guns for state-approved mass shootings.
Big Brother is watching you. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.