Austrian ska-punk band Russkaja has announced its disbandment due to threats and fears for the members’ safety amid the war in Ukraine, The Guardian reports.
The band Russkaja consists of six men and one woman and started in Vienna 18 years ago. The Soviet-nostalgic band had great success in the US, describing themselves as a band playing “Russian turbo-polka metal”.
“Portrayed as pro-Russian despite our condemnation” of the invasion of Ukraine, “our group Russkaja has become a daily target online,” the group, which includes a Russian and a Ukrainian, said on Facebook on Saturday.
“Soviet images were destroyed forever… [și] the war in Ukraine, which Russia will no longer allow us to use satirically at the beginning of February 24, 2022,” Ruska wrote.
“And then we fear for the safety of our band and we don’t want anything serious to happen during the performance.”
At first, the band, whose slogans are “peace, love and Russian style”, decided to continue playing, clearly demonstrating their support for Kyiv.
Bassist Dmytro Miller is Ukrainian.
But its logo is in the shape of a red star, its soloist is from Moscow, and some lyrics, such as “Russians have arrived”, had to be rewritten.
Signs of hostility have multiplied, and “no one in this group wants to represent what, in a time like ours, is associated exclusively with war, death, murder and bloodshed,” Ruska added.
Source: Hot News
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