"I never thought it would be relevant again."
On his Instagram account, Sting talks about
Russians
, a song he composed in 1985 in the middle of the Cold War to denounce in particular the absurdity of the conflict.
A title that he decided to interpret again with regard to the war in Ukraine.
“I have rarely sung this song in the many years since it was written.
[…] But, in light of one man's bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, non-threatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity,” he wrote. in the caption of the
Russians
reinterpretation video .
A song that aims to raise funds to help Ukraine, which he dedicates to the "brave Ukrainians who fight against this brutal tyranny" and to the "many Russians who protest against this outrage despite the threat of arrest and imprisonment". .
“We, all of us, love our children.
Stop the war,” he concludes.
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