RU - Rock star faces communist wrath over drugs

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by Andy Potts at 16/09/2010 11:57

http://www.mn.ru/society/20100916/188046385.html

'Aging rock star Sting may have mellowed since his spiky incarnation as frontman of The Police – but his orchestral show in St. Petersburg’s ice arena still proved too sharp for Russia’s communist old school.
Although Mikhail Tyurin, an activist with the splinter group of Communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region admits he’s always liked the Geordie crooner’s singing, he’s got no time for the singer’s activism.
And it’s an article published in Britain’s Daily Mail earlier this year which has really got the reds seeing red.
Sting called for marijuana to be legalised, and ignited an angry response from the communists.

Complete degradation
“As a public person these idols should represent ideals of goodness and justice, not complete degradation as Sting does,” Tyurin said on the organisation’s web site. “What is the explanation of the ministry of Culture? What was Putin doing when this singe of drugs was invited to the major arenas of the country?
“What a double standard. The biggest advocate of marijuana is invited to the Hermitage! Shame!”

Heads should roll
Although the protestors planned to follow every breathe Sting took in Russia, his shows in St. Petersburg and Moscow this week went off without a hitch.
And now the campaigners are calling for heads to roll in the Petersburg authorities who licensed the show.
“If the argument is that he sings well, let him sing in a prison ensemble,” said Vyborg party secretary Natalya Ivanova. “The health of our children is worth a thousand times more than a song of a decomposed British drug addict.
“How can they promote this bloody star? Resign, all of the St. Petersburg anti-drug authorities.”'
 
Thats fucking communist...oh wait. Haha but for real the communists are outraged about weed what about Stalins great purge? Yea I bet they dont wanna talk about that.
 
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Thats fucking communist...oh wait. Haha but for real the communists are outraged about weed what about Stalins great purge? Yea I bet they dont wanna talk about that.
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Most communists aren't Stalinists. In fact, almost all of the communists I know favor the legalization of drugs and are in general very socially liberal. I would actually call the people written about in the article, as well as Stalin and followers of his and similar ideologies totalitarian socialists, because that's what they are, not communists. They're also idiots. They think Sting is the biggest promoter of marijuana?
 
Yea I think a better description is that they're Russian nationalists who happen to be "communist" because Russia is. They are really no different than American nationalists who wonder why America can't just take over the world, and solve all of their problems. The people who cheer when the economy is deregulated, then when it collapses they call for more deregulation, and claim that it collapsed because it wasn't deregulated enough. The people who honestly think that marijuana is a crime committed not only against the law of the land, but against them personally, and who think someone should be thrown in jail just for verbally advocating it.

In short they are the people who see the statue of David and rather than seeing a beautiful work of art and representation of human potential, can't get past the fact that "you can see his penis!" and demand to see the manager of the museum. They are the ones in Milgram's shock experiment who didn't need to be prodded to get them to go past 300 volts because they were perfectly willing to do so. The ones who think that moral relativism is satanic. To whom the idea of the line between good and evil "cutting through the hearts of all men, shifting and oscillating; even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, within whom a small bastion of good remains; that even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unawakened small corner of evil hidden behind the shadows", is just more evil liberal propaganda from the "liberal media" about how unfair minorities have it. "I mean if you don't like it, go to another country, maybe you'd like Africa better. It's what I do whenever I don't like something, I certainly don't try to fix it," said conservative duesch bag Strawman McMoron in response to liberal whining. Conservatives... until we cure stupid there will always be tons of them on this earth, like flies on shit.
 
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Hees me thinking the guys selling it were the biggest promoters.

Makes me glad I live where I do y'know, no communism round my end.
 
mmm russia hard drinking with a huge number of addicts plus was seeing a document other day which said russia consumes 20% of the world wide heroin and has sky rockerting levels of heroin addicts and sky rockerting rate of hiv infections seems there polices are working to great
 
The Moscow News said:
“What is the explanation of the ministry of Culture? What was Putin doing when this singe of drugs was invited to the major arenas of the country?'
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LOL ... no joke either, I bet "what would Putin do" is the Eastern bloc's version of "what would Jesus do" :\

From what I hear, his popularity is still ridiculously high (%age wise), and that can't all be attributable to Soviet-era fear tactics or dictatorial fabrications as in Iran and Zimbabwe.

Funny how in so many areas of the world, acceptance/use of alcohol is in such direct opposition to cannabis tolerance.
It goes both ways :p ... Repeal the 21st Amendment!
 
Stalinism was the gravedigger of a failed revolution that was meant to be international but gotr stuck in backward Russia.
 
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