Pussy Riot — MAMA, DON’T WATCH TV / МАМА, НЕ СМОТРИ ТЕЛЕВИЗОР (ANTI - WAR SONG)

STATEMENT This song is our statement against the war that Putin started in Ukraine. On 24th February 2022 Russia began a wide scale military attack on Ukraine. Russian bombs and rockets destroyed Ukrainian homes, schools, hospitals, wrecking towns and destroying lives. We believe that Putin’s regime is a terrorist regime, and Putin himself, his officials, generals and propagandists are war criminals. The chorus is based on the words of a captured Russian conscript soldier who, in a telephone conversation with his mother, said “Mom, there are no Nazis here, don’t watch TV.“ Russian propaganda daily poisons the hearts of people with hatred. Those who oppose Putin are imprisoned, poisoned with military poisons and killed. The tradition of political poisoning for more than 100 years, “laboratory x“ - the first laboratory of military poisons created by the NKVD. Opposition figures of anti-government movements became victims of the “experiments“. Putin a