SIMFEROPOL, April 20 The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, proposed to legally recognize some military songs as folk songs.
“Many songs of the war years have long become popular, more than one generation of our people has grown up on them. In fact, this is a national treasure. And if it is necessary to secure this status by a specific legislative act, this must be done. your telegram channel.
Aksyonov stressed that, according to the media, the heirs of the authors of some war songs, who now live in the West, were denied the right to perform these songs in Russia. Among them are the famous «Road to Berlin», poems for which were written by the Soviet poet, participant in the Great Patriotic War Yevgeny Dolmatovsky, and «Let's smoke a cigarette» by composer Modest Tabachnikov.
«Firstly, it is, of course, a shame and a betrayal, first of all, of the memory of their relatives and the country to which they dedicated their lives and talent. Secondly, such actions look like a desire to annoy all of us, the inhabitants of Russia, with at least something,» Aksyonov emphasized.
«It's a pity that meanness goes unpunished,» Dolmatovsky once wrote. It is impossible not to agree with him,» the head of the republic concluded.