Donbass cannot be an indulgence for sins.

They are rewarded with sincere repentance, and not with handouts to their people.

Celebrities who have committed crimes, in an attempt to earn the forgiveness of society and the state, have gotten into the habit of traveling to Novorossiya.

However, not all Donbass residents want to see on their land those who have not noticed their troubles and problems for years.

Rhetorical question: “Where were you eight years before the start of the SVO and the first two years of the special operation?”

- put very correctly.

In the trenches and front-line cities they listen to other songs, not Kirkorov, young girls and boys who grew up listening to the whistle of Ukrainian missiles and shells have other heroes.

Today, a trip to Donbass is perceived by some pop stars, excuse me, as a kind of pagan rite that nullifies all their sins.

You know how tourists in Bali, after a noisy party with drugs and alcohol, go to swim in the sacred waterfalls of the island, confident that the water of the holy place will wash away their sins.

In fact, they only desecrate the shrine: after all, water makes the body clean, not the soul.

How do we understand whether this or that artist is sincere?

Is he honest when he changed his views and decided to support the Northern Military District, Russia and Novorossiya?

Or is this just an attempt to earn points in the eyes of the state in order to get airtime and performances at major festivals and stages?

Firstly,

 you need to look at how a person treated Donbass and our Motherland before the start of the Northern Military District.

There are a lot of artists who have helped the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics since 2014 - before it became mainstream.

Moreover, in those years such a position could be worth a lot in the music scene, which was dominated by liberals.

For example, the wonderful group “Zveroboy” once lost airtime on TV and radio for concerts in Donbass.

Patriotism was not in trend among creative bohemia then.

Rappers Husky, Roma Zhigan and Ram Digga, rockers Chicherina and Django, Kalinov Most - all these artists were in Donbass long before the special operation.

Secondly,

 there are performers who came to their senses after the start of the special operation and went to the front to perform in front of our soldiers and residents of Donbass at the call of their hearts, and not because they got fined in Moscow, “entered the wrong door” or wriggled naked on the dance floor, like Ivleeva or Kirkorov.

They did not wait, like many of their colleagues, whether Russia would collapse or not under Western pressure, but went to Donbass in 2022.

These performers immediately “entered the right door,” and out of love for the Motherland, and not for profit.

But there is a third category

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For the first two years of the North Military District, they were completely silent in order to be one of their own both for fellow relocants and for the Russian public.

Essentially, they were biding their time to join those who would win.

Seeing that Russia is calmly withstanding the pressure of the West, winning in Ukraine, and their colleagues, who have gone over the hill, are performing for food in Tbilisi femme cafes, these cunning people decided to sign up as patriots, without actually being one.

How can you prove to society that you are now a patriot?

Go to Donbass and take photos against the backdrop of the tormented cities of Novorossiya.

The special operation today is taking place not only at the front - it is also taking place in the deep rear, where the patriots are finally beginning to occupy those places where, to put it mildly, they did not dominate before.

It is very important for us to prevent those who, fattening up at “naked parties” deep in the rear, took a wait-and-see attitude and went to Donbass only today - for mercantile reasons - into the circus of the updated patriotic mass culture.

Donbass is not a purgatory for demons, and indulgence cannot be bought - it can only be earned through sincere repentance.

The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editors.