To the birthday of "Myth" Vasily Slipak: What was and how the opera singer - the hero of the ATO died. Famous opera singer killed by sniper in eastern Ukraine

Yesterday, the Ukrainian media reported a sad event. Not far from the village of Luganskoye, early in the morning, at six in the morning, singer Vasily Slipak died from a sniper bullet. There was also a story about the fate of this man, his beliefs, that he was famous all over the world. His interview was repeated many times on television, in which the artist spoke about himself and called on all healthy men under the age of 50 to visit the ATO zone in order to make sure that the war would soon end, obviously victorious. This story would have been quite “pulling” for a high patriotic example, but ... The body of the singer had not yet sat down to give to the earth, as some extremely unpleasant circumstances for the authorities turned out.

life path

You can treat it however you like. political views Vasily Slipak, but even the most staunch opponents of Ukrainian nationalism cannot refuse him honesty and sincerity. The singer certainly loved his country, albeit in his own way. For the sake of the triumph of the national idea, he left the opera stage and not just anywhere, but in Paris. There he sang arias, folk songs, he had fans, admirers, as well as fees for performances, according to Ukrainian concepts, simply astronomical. And not for the sake of earning, he returned to his homeland, but his heart called him. Vasily would not have sent home refrigerators and TVs taken from the broken houses of the inhabitants of the Donetsk region, he did not need it. On the contrary, he collected money for the ATO fighters and spent his own money, buying cars and all sorts of other things needed in the war. The singer lived abroad for almost two decades, and upon learning that Ukraine was attacked by an insidious enemy, he did not stand aside, but first became a volunteer, and then a warrior. Death cut this good fortune. This is how they roughly talk about Vasily Slipak on TV, unobtrusively hinting to all those liable for military service where their place is.

Slipak about military affairs

The television interview given by Vasily Slipak shortly before his death is very interesting to listen to. If an unknown sniper from the DPR knew whose "region of the lower body" he took at the intersection of optics, then, it can be assumed with a high degree of probability, he would have chosen a different target. The singer did not stay at the front for very long, a couple of weeks in total, and during this time he hardly managed to inflict any damage on the enemy, especially since he never served in the army and did not know military affairs at all. Moreover, Vasily did not consider that it was necessary. He told the journalist who asked him questions that the main thing in the war is not combat skills, but patriotism in the heart, and everything else is a simple matter. It was evident that he was not disingenuous, but said what he thought. in a strange way These thoughts are in line with general principles Ukrainian army, which, of course, is increasingly contract system, but there are no more professionals in it. Officers are "retrained" for a month, and any, from supply to gunners. Where the shells fired by such "specialists" fly is known to many residents of Donbass from those who survived, of course.

Official losses

According to the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, less than three thousand servicemen died during the military conflict in the East of Ukraine. Well, maybe a little more, if you take into account the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service, the National Guard and border guards. Nevertheless, even a year ago, when asked about the real number of dead, officers who had been in the war answered without a shadow of a doubt: “at least a dozen,” meaning, of course, thousands. Mournful processions passed through the streets of different settlements, messages about large-scale "boilers" replaced one another, entire military groups fell into the environment, losing a significant part of the personnel during the evacuation. And today people continue to die, soldiers and officers, volunteers and mobilized, including by force. All these facts do not confirm the official figures. The data is clearly underestimated, and implausible, which gives grounds for the most gloomy assumptions, perhaps even overestimated.

And here deceased singer? A little patience.

Where did volunteer Slipak serve?

Vasily Slipak did not fight in some part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but in a completely different armed formation. In the interview mentioned, he hinted with artistic slyness that in fact “they are not there”, and expressed fears about the possibility of returning to France again, since such actions are not welcome in the European Union. In these bold speeches, the singer actually acknowledged his status as a mercenary. He fought in the DUK (volunteer Ukrainian corps) of the "Right Sector", banned in Russia, by the way, or rather in his seventh battalion. This unit enjoys a particularly bad reputation among the LPR militia, they are fighting for complete destruction, and, as a rule, they do not take prisoners in battles with them.

DUK and its role in the war

Again, unlike ordinary mobilized and even those who voluntarily came to the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices to sign a contract for service, sometimes forcedly, for lack of other means of subsistence (this phenomenon is not uncommon now), “right-wingers” are convinced people. They do not fight for money, although they receive some kind of support, of course, but for an idea. They are indispensable in this very ATO, their command, as they say, “plugs holes”, they are sent to reconnaissance, some kind of raids and other dangerous enterprises, where you can’t lure ordinary Armed Forces officers even with a roll. There are few Right Sector fighters, but they are always at the forefront of events marked on tactical topographic maps. And if the death and even injury of every soldier is now an event that is reported on the Internet and on television, then members of volunteer formations are dying without a trace. As Slipak said, "they just aren't there." Of course, he chatted a lot of superfluous things and in passing gave out an important state secret, but what to take from him is an artist. Especially now.

Slipak charges the magazine and sings, sings...

This video is very popular, it is viewed by many. The opera singer sits at an impromptu table, in front of him is a handful of cartridges, he rhythmically snaps them into the magazine of the Kalashnikov assault rifle and hums a Ukrainian folk song. He really has a very pleasant voice, rich in nuances, and not just falling under some generally accepted operatic standards, but a very rare countertenor. With his small concerts, Vasily sometimes entertained his colleagues, they especially liked the patriotic repertoire. So this video recorded a similar moment, almost everyday, but not without a touch of artistry. The patriots like this scene, they think that, they say, Slipak is sitting, humming, the store fills up, and then he will take the machine gun and “separate everyone”. It turned out the other way around, but the enemies new Ukraine there is no reason for gloating. With his death, the artist of the Parisian theater "Opera Bastille" revealed a secret mechanism that allows you to underestimate the real losses of the Ukrainian side, and something else.

Low Loss Secret

O world fame The Ukrainian media, of course, somewhat exaggerated Slipak, the singer most often performed parts in secondary theaters, signed two or three contracts annually, and he was not invited to La Scala, but he had a certain fame, as well as very beautiful voice. After he died, someone came up with the idea to compare this fact with the daily report, in which the command lists the wounded and killed per day. Vasily Slipak was not in it. He was nowhere at all. The Right Sector does not count the dead. Sometimes, when the corpse is obtained by volunteers, fallen hero brought to native city and arrange a magnificent funeral, as a rule, at their own expense. Slipak will be buried in Lviv, this has already been reported, a celebrity after all. So rarely does anyone get lucky ...

Who is shooting?

Another moment, which, perhaps, will lead to a real discovery, and the death of the singer Vasily Slipak is again to blame. Since there is no “Right Sector” anywhere, no one monitors its compliance with the Minsk agreements. But after all, someone is shooting near the Sands, Avdeevka and on the Svetlodarskaya Bulge? It can be assumed that it is they who are heroic and cover themselves with unfading glory, those "who are not there."

It remains only to express condolences to the parents and brother of Mith (a pseudonym in honor of the beloved opera character Vasil Slipak, Mephistopheles). He sang beautifully. The earth rest in peace to him ...

VASILY SLIPAK. LIFE ON A HIGH NOTE

The role of Mephistopheles in the opera Faust by Charles Gounod Opera singer considered his most beloved, and therefore his nickname appeared consonant - Myth. But he lived his life, albeit short, but as heroic as mythological characters. He gave the audience the rarest and most exceptional singing art. He was considered a real vocal miracle, and many teachers simply dreamed of working with Vasily in their class.

The dream of educators

He was an extremely gifted opera singer, possessing a subtle and boundless vocal vibrato that drove the audience crazy. It was impossible to understand how such a powerful voice fit into such a slender and young performer. Eminent teachers did not even want to classify his voice, calling it unique. In his forties, he was a well-known opera singer throughout Europe, performed leading roles in many productions, had amazing prospects, but when the war broke out in his homeland, he could not stand aside ...

Lviv Talent

Born in Lviv in 1974. Parents instilled in him respect and love for native land, for him the words "honor" and "dignity" were not empty. He grew up as a responsible, fair, purposeful and not at all hooligan young man. No one in the family was professionally involved in music, but grandfather had vocals of amazing purity and power. Therefore, Vasily had someone to inherit talent from. On his creative development influenced by the older brother Orestes. It was he who took the nine-year-old Vasily to the famous Lviv academic choir chapel"Dudarik". The founder and leader of the group, Nikolai Katsal, became a significant figure in the work of the aspiring singer. The repertory works of the chapel shaped the taste and worldview Vasily Slipak. He performed works Ukrainian composers the golden era of the genre choral concert a cappella. Also, as part of Dudarik, Vasily participated in the recording of records and joint concerts with eminent Ukrainian performers. The guys even visited the famous New York Carnegie Hall with performances.

Not all at once

Surprisingly, having a rather rare voice (countertenor), Vasily did not manage to enter the Lviv Music Institute (now it is the Lviv National Academy of Music) the first time. Slipak did not lose faith in himself, he performed a lot, began touring, met many musicians, composers and conductors. In 1992, a stubborn young man proved his right to be among the students of the institute and entered the course of Professor Maria Baiko. Under her leadership, Vasily expanded his repertoire with works by Ukrainian and European composers. He has always participated in student concerts, demonstrated his chic voice, thanks to which the teachers predicted him a dizzying career.

French chance of Vasily Slipak

Soon creative destiny Vasily Slipak made a sharp turn. This time, again, it was not without the help of his older brother Orestes. In 1994, he went to France for a congress of cardiologists. In Paris, he was lucky to meet the staff of the editorial office " Ukrainian word". The weekly was headed by Doctor of Medicine, Professor Yaroslav Musyanovich. He introduced Orestes to the composer Marian Kuzan and strongly recommended that he leave the cassette with the recording of the younger brother. A month later Vasily Slipak invited to one of the largest music festivals in the city of Clermont-Ferrand.

In addition to his program, the singer also prepared Handel's cantatas, The Matthew Passion and The John Passion. The young man performed French, German songs and Italian arias in the original language and was awarded the Grand Prix of the competition and the Grand Prix of Audience Choice. In addition, he was the only contestant who performed compositions on mother tongue. His debut in France became a real sensation. Critics wrote rave reviews about the Ukrainian operatic talent in newspapers, his vocal abilities enchanted the public, and famous teachers of the Paris Academy organized an audition for him. Everyone unanimously recognized the originality of Vasily's voice, which put an end to the dispute about whether it is worth singing a baritone and a countertenor at the same time. That's how one competition became a milestone in creative life Slipak.

Test by contests

After that, he had the opportunity to present his program to the Parisian public. In 1994, the young singer gave solo concert at the French Vichy Opera. That evening, works of Ukrainian folk music sounded on the stage.

At the international music festival"Kyiv Music Fest" in the same year, accompanied by chamber orchestra performed Alexander Kozarenko's cantata "Pierrot Dead Loop". The audience was delighted and called Vasily for an encore. At a concert of modern chamber music it happened for the first time. A few months later, as part of the International Festival contemporary art in Odessa, Slipak again performed this chamber cantata. And again success, the work sounded here twice.

The talent and unique voice of Vasily was also appreciated by the guests of the international festival musical art"Virtuosi", which was held in Lviv in 1995. Together with his native Dudarik Choir and soprano Bogdana Khidchenko, he performed two parts at once in the famous cantata German composer Carl Orff "Carmina Burana"

Leading parties

He easily performed both folk music and the most difficult opera parts. received leading roles in Le nozze di Figaro and Don Juan, Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin and. But more than others, he liked the image of Mephistopheles from the opera Faust.

As part of a concert tour of Europe in 2008, he performed with chamber works in cathedrals and ancient palaces, opera houses and drama theaters, the largest concert halls and cultural centers. He collaborated with famous orchestras and conductors.

No matter what stage he went on, he everywhere fascinated the audience with his marvelous vocal culture and peculiar voice. It seemed that from the first seconds he was concentrating the attention of the public on himself, striking her, causing the widest range of emotions. Of course, appearance and invariable gallantry helped him to become this. Naturalness, artistry and expressiveness were inherent in him. Despite the fact that he sounded harmoniously in the choir, the soloist still prevailed in him. He skillfully mastered special reception vocal performance"mezza voce" (quiet, incomplete sound), which required a high level of professionalism and technical skill.

Personal example

For almost twenty years he lived in France, where he performed at the Paris National Opera. Rare vocal abilities allowed the singer to make a successful solo career. He had everything to be real an opera star: a unique timbre of voice, attractiveness and aristocracy in manners. He performed at best scenes France, Italy, Poland and USA. But when the home began fighting, firmly decided that an operatic career could wait. Relatives know that he could not and did not want to live half, to abstract from what was happening was unthinkable for him. And everyone else still cannot understand what the brilliant opera performer forgot in the trenches of Donbass. It was his personal example of self-sacrifice in the name of the country, which he infinitely loved, and his people.

Front-line everyday life of Vasily Slipak

During the Revolution of Dignity, he could not come to Ukraine - in France he signed a contract with opera house. But even there he did everything in his power - he organized actions in support of his country, gave charity concerts, to raise funds, he was a volunteer, helped the fighters, and then he himself joined one of the volunteer battalions. Vasily went to Donbass, to know about the war not from newspapers and the Internet. He took the call sign "Myth", and many soldiers did not even know that an opera star was fighting next to them, because Slipak did not like to talk about himself at all. On the page in social network he asked to help the wounded and the families of the dead, only for this he turned to people. Vasily did not flaunt everything he did for the sake of the fighters.

Returning from the Donbass, he continued charity concerts, together with the Ukrainian diaspora in France, provided assistance to children whose parents were taken away by the war. And in the summer of 2016, he again went to the east of the country.

"Myth" and reality

When journalists learned that there was an opera singer at the front, they immediately began to shoot all kinds of stories about him. did not refuse interviews, but always said that he did not give them for his own PR. Thus, he wanted to convey his position to people, support those who had lost faith, and attract help for the fighters.

2016 sniper bullet ended life Vasily Slipak. The singer's voice was silent forever, but it will sound in the memory of connoisseurs of his talent.

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In 2011, the singer decided to try his hand at the international opera competition Armel, the jury of which had to select several candidates for the leading roles in five productions with the best theater scenes the cities of New York, Krakow, Szeged, Pilsen and Bol. After several rounds of competition received the right to participate in the final of the prestigious opera "competition". At the winners' concert, he performed the Toreador's aria from the opera and won the prize for the best male performance.

At times when Vasily Slipak a unique countertenor had just begun to appear, he imitated with Yuri Kolas at one of the rehearsals of the Dudarik choir and which performed famous composition"Barcelona". The rest of the chapel singers liked it so much that at every opportunity they asked the guys to sing again.

Updated: April 7, 2019 by: Elena

The deceased in the ATO zone in the Donbas turned out to be the brother of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan. The head of the ministry himself wrote about this on his Facebook page, without specifying, however. relation degree.

Omelyan shared his memories of the killed soldier and published his photographs.

"He was energetic, full of optimism. No matter what, no matter how difficult it was - he smiled, joked, looked at the sky. He walked forward. Two meters tall, a straight spine and the truth from his lips. He lived by what he did. Not he just sang, but he was the hero of the stage. So he fought. Without talking about the war itself. He loved friends and girlfriends, firmly cut off his enemies, lived in Ukraine, "Omelyan wrote.

“Once, in childhood, I pinched his finger with a door. The nail came off, and the new one grew badly. “A sign, my brother always thinks of you,” he laughed at the meeting and poked that finger.

Infinitely sociable, ready to give the last and just as carelessly come to you for a day, and stay or invite you for a few months, "said Omelyan.

He also wrote that at first Slipak did not admit that he was fighting in the ATO zone and refused help for a long time.

"The stage was his vocation. It was his Hollywood. He went to it from childhood. Dudarik, French Grand Prix, Paris Opera–the achievement is not only personal, but, as it seemed to us, the whole of Ukraine and our family," the minister also wrote.

Recall that the Opera singer Vasily, who fought in the Donbass in the ranks of the DUK Right Sector

“I can’t help but grieve for the Ukrainian singer Vasily Slipak, who died in the ATO,” writes about the native of Lviv, a volunteer of the “Right Sector”, Kyiv priest Alypiy Svetlichny. - Great voice, talent, well-deserved attention. It would seem that the man had everything. But the Maidan whirlwind captured him... Today, the Ukrainian media will weep over the coffin of the murdered singer, who took the nickname "Myth", from the abbreviated "Mephistopheles". But aren't they, the media, the main killers of the singer and thousands more worthy people who created their own myth! A myth that encourages war!

O. Alipiy wrote this on Friday, July 1, on that day in Lvov, the funeral of a baritone, a Nazi machine gunner who was shot by a Donbass sniper, took place.

“Vasily Slipak died under strange circumstances that should have been further studied. There are many ambiguities, writes Fr. Alipiy on Facebook. - However, I would like you to listen to the song "Oh, the dawn of the evening has dawned over Pochaev" performed by the deceased. It is believed that the words and music of folk songs. The story is about the time of the Monk Job of Pochaev, who in the song is called by the nickname - Iron. The Turks and Crimean Tatars attacked the Pochaev Monastery, and the Mother of God protected it with the prayers of St. Job. The song is beautiful, touching and reflects the real historical events. But! No one is embarrassed that it is performed in the Ukrainian Uniate Church in Paris, as a matter of course. For Uniates in general, a mixture of beliefs is not something abnormal. They don't care that the Monk Job was an Orthodox monk, that the icon of the Mother of God of Pochaev is the blessing of the Orthodox Patriarch. They simply deny Orthodox saints in Orthodoxy, signing them up as their supporters. And the Baptist of Russia, Prince Vladimir, is equally "their Baptist" for them. They are not at all embarrassed that they renounced the faith of the fathers and the same Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir who betrayed Orthodoxy! important to them big names, they steal history in order to defame it with their unscrupulousness. Ukrainianness itself is a religion, in which, like knots in an embroidered shirt, both Christ and the Mother of God, and saints, and historical figures are visible.

For a nationalist, Christianity is only a forced episode of Ukrainianism. And sometimes it’s a clearly annoying episode, which is why they want to replace humble Christianity, which does not fit into the media “requirements” and orders for murder, with frenzied paganism.

And the transition to this is open betrayal, under the guise of Uniatism and "Filaretism."

To betray Christ under any guise, lulling the Ukrainian heart with nationalism! This is the task of the new world of talented mephistophiles.

Vasily sings beautifully. Touching. About the Crimean Tatars and predatory Turks shamed by the Most Holy Theotokos. About the Orthodox Saint Job. Sings like everything is fine. Conscience is clear, lulled, in slumber and sweet bliss. No cognitive dissonance is felt. It is not for nothing that this song is now called by some performers - "Ukrainian folk lulling". Sorry for the singer. It is sad that he died without understanding. Lulled by false ideas. Without the true Lord Christ."

The spiritual father also speaks of the historical betrayal of the Uniates, of the apostasy of five hundred years ago, substitutions that are still relevant today, and it is clear what they led to: personal and social tragedies.

But let’s also think about the fact that “Oh, the dawn of the evening has dawned” is not an opera aria, but a spiritual verse. The opera style is absolutely alien to the style of spiritual poetry. And it would be better to listen to this song performed by some blind lirnyk, a transient kalika, and not the false spivak Slipak. Finding himself with his bright vocals most adequately here, see his "opera singing" at the Eiffel Tower. In the credits for the video, this is called culturally, even in Russian: “Flash mob, Paris, conductor Vasily Slipak.” However, listen to what exactly and how exactly this spivak sings...

The publicist Eva Merkuryeva, who called her note “Operation Provocation”, is inclined to conclude that “singer Vasyl Slipak was killed by the “brothers””, since such a sacrifice he desired was very overdue. “Firstly, a direct calculation of the reaction of the Europeans. The singer himself blurted out in an interview that pro-Russian sentiments are growing stronger in Europe (in France), and there is a need to convince the Europeans. The soloist of the Paris Opera, who in 1997 left to make a career in France, was killed by a "Russian terrorist sniper" during a "militant attack" - this is exactly the way to convey the Ukrainian picture of the conflict in Donbas to Europe. Moreover, in the same France, "Ukrainian patriots" even at the level of the Foreign Ministry and Parliament failed to prevent the TV screen scandalous film"Masks of the Revolution".

Secondly, Galicia, more than ever, needs a well-known Ukrainian in Europe - a "dead hero" from the ranks of creative intelligentsia. Which, as it were, materializes two conclusions at once: 1) it is Russian and pro-Russian forces that are killing the "Ukrainian European dream"; 2) for the sake of Ukraine, creative intellectuals are dying at the hands of Donetsk miners and Pskov car washers. Both of these "deep" thoughts have already rushed through the networks at a gallop.

It was very necessary to motivate the Galicians to aggravate the conflict in the Donbass, since even this region has already "floated" - voices are heard from there that the main enemies of Ukraine are not in the Donbass and not even in Moscow, but in Kyiv, and some of them are their own, home-grown, that it's time to look for ways to the world that Lviv's trash is in literally continues to poison life, that the Maidan was zrada (especially if you look at the pictures of the joyful Yatsenyuk in Washington). And so on".

The analyst develops a noteworthy thought: “There is another seemingly imperceptible moment - the promo of the Right Sector, where Slipak fought. Allegedly, it was the "PS" that repelled the "attack of militants" on the Donbass front on that fateful morning of June 29, 2016. "Volunteers" are fighting. It is also noteworthy that the Ukrainian media are desperately confused about where exactly Slipak died: some claim that it was near Lugansk, others that it was near Debaltseve. Strange, right?

It is quite possible that one of the tasks of the insane Ukrainian "offensive" on the night of June 29, according to the plan of its organizers, was to provide scenery for the assassination of Vasyl Slipak.

Of course, no one advertised this task - it was necessary to create an epic picture of the "offensive of the militants" which was heroically repulsed by the "Right Sector", but long arm sniper killed a wrestler-singer known throughout the Paris Opera.”

The idea of ​​a provocative and tendentious (directed against the implementation of the Minsk agreements) promotion of the death of Pan Slipak is confirmed by the nature and content of the replicas of the Ukrainian media, in which a single source is clearly guessed, up to verbal coincidences.

Analysts give examples.

Victor Tregubov, journalist: "One of the most unpleasant features of this particular war is that there is an exchange of soloists of the Paris Opera for car washers of the Ryazan regional centers."

Lyudmila Dobrovolskaya, news anchor of the 1+1 TV channel: “I listen to his Toreador. What a voice and what a heart! Died at the hands of a primitive Ghivi-like, which turned out to be so generous land Donbass. And we relish smile at his killers and let these pithecanthropes and their unicellular descendants live with us in the same country, because "we are one people"? I don't have the slightest desire to smile or live next to me. I don’t apologize for the language of hatred - I don’t have another for genetic garbage. ”

Arkady Babchenko, journalist: “One of the main abominations of this nasty war is that the Russian world is losing its declassed sections of the population, and Ukraine is forced to lose the entire section of society. The Russian world is losing car washes. Ukraine - opera singers, journalists, IT specialists, businessmen... Russia is grinding the Ukrainian gene pool. It does with Ukraine what it has done with itself for centuries. Today I heard the name of Slipak for the first time, but the very fact of losing this life is a tragedy for me.”

This is manipulation, but also idiotic self-talk: the journalist hears the singer’s last name for the first time, but calls him in a high register “the color of the nation”, as opposed to “genetic trash cattle”, “washers of Ryazan car washes”. How they hate everything Russian! What a "European" arrogance, however! Where did she come from? From what heights of "Ukrainian aristocracy" and blue Aryan blood do these custom clickers broadcast?

Here you will inevitably think that the organized farewell to Slipak in Lviv is clearly a propaganda action, a classic provocation in the spirit of the scoundrel and "mephistopheles" Henri Levy, because on the Kiev Maidan and in Dnepropetrovsk, where they also said goodbye to him, the events were dull, without "Lviv" resonance.

Kyiv publicist Maxim Ravreba sarcastically, even caustically wrote on Facebook about the Lviv memorial service and about the “culprit” of the mournful event: “Modest funeral of a simple opera soldier. Lemberg. Today. Not for nothing civil war in Ukraine, the word "operetta" was said. The operetta revolution, the operetta war and the operetta soldiers. It is clear that I am talking now specifically about this poseur and dude, who was not at all a soloist and bass-baritone of the Paris Opera House (by the way, which one? Opera de Paris, Opera Garnier or Grand Opera?), but so - an opera guest worker- Galician from Lvuv in search of a long oire. But in fact - a neo-Nazi, a psychopath, a racist, a maniac and an Achtung, who imagines himself a singing Cossack Rembenko and cunningly conceived to capitalize his photos with automatic weapons and ruzhbaechki in his further guest worker operetta biography. But now is not about that. He has already received his award, the biography ended with a well-aimed shot of a Soviet rebel. The subject no longer sings, but lies quietly in a very expensive hearse car, and after the proper spells are cast on him, he will be buried and forgotten forever, as if he had not been on our affectionate planet. It always happens that way. But I'm talking about the modest funeral of the subject in Lemberg. To whom is the war, and to whom is the mother dear: to whom is the common pit near Zaporozhye or Odessa in the place of burial of surgical waste, and to whom is the Mercedes-Bams hearse. There is no justice on earth, but believe me - THERE IS ABOVE IT! Worth thinking about."

If you look at a selection of photographs of this singer, you can see how his facial features were distorted. BUT last photo- just terrible. It is clear that he is a deranged person. And the nickname, a derivative of the devil, probably corresponded to his last state mind. Alas.

Some shed tears for lost talent. And the fact that he went to kill people is probably forgotten. If you go to kill, remember that you can be killed too. If you want to sing, sing. If you want to kill, you can be killed yourself.

“Today, any citizen of any country in the world can come to Ukraine on a safari for a person, get weapons and shoot uncontrollably wherever they hit,” writes Kyiv publicist Miroslava Berdnik.

It is amazing to read on social networks the private opinions of some commentators from the outside Donetsk republics, who argue that if we abstract away, then one should still respect the murdered, because “a man, a warrior, made his own choice, took a weapon”, so to speak, “he left the hut, went to fight ...”, and, they say, that condemn him! This is amazing relativism, showing that some of our comrades spiritually immaturely perceive reality - almost like a role-playing game, where good lads are divided into two teams and simply play in ours and not ours. In the case of Slipak (this surname is translated as “blind man”), we are dealing with a murderer who came to Novorosiya to “slaughter Muscovites”, confused by a false idea. Yes, Spivak Paris Opera he himself made his choice (or the demon that inhabited him) - but in favor of the murder, as part of the Nazi battalion "Azov".

Odesa-anti-Maidan activist Alexander Vasiliev brings common feature under the thought of sacred sacrifices“revolution of hydness”: “The slogan of the marginal Ukrainian nationalists “Slaves are not allowed to heaven” during the “Euromaidan” turned into a guide to action. Slaves were understood as law-abiding citizens loyal to the current regime, and paradise was understood as the European Union. Contrary to concrete practice and common sense, there was a feeling that one could pave the way to the realm of free consumption with one's chest. In the same way, this belief was contrary to the Christian teaching about paradise and ways to find oneself in it. To a greater extent, this imperative corresponded to some kind of warlike paganism in the manner of Scandinavian, in which paradise - Valhalla - is a gathering place for soldiers who died in battle. It is not surprising that people who died in street clashes with law enforcement, were instantly canonized precisely within the framework of this picture of the world. The Heavenly Hundred turned out to be the vanguard of Ukrainians who managed to integrate into Europe. Is it any wonder that people who came to power on the blood of these fighters who fell into heaven, under the promises of European integration, unleashed a war in the country they inherited?

One can also recall the fashion trend of the Svidomites that preceded the “Euromaidan”: “What a toby God, I’m not a Muscovite!”. Which God did they thank? Clearly not the one who has neither a Greek nor a Jew.

And no sooner had the body of the murdered, as they say, lowered into the grave, as a petition was registered on the website of the Lviv City Council to rename Tchaikovsky Street to Vasily Slipak Street. “In order to properly commemorate the memory of the newest Ukrainian Hero, a fighter of the Russian-Ukrainian war, an opera singer of world renown, a resident of Lviv, Vasyl Slipak-Mephistopheles, who tragically died on June 29 near the settlement of Luhanske, Donetsk region, from a Russian sniper’s bullet, it is proposed: Change the name of Tchaikovsky Street (“ Russian composer with Ukrainian roots" - so in the text. - L. Z.) on the street of the hero of Ukraine Vasily Slipak,” the petition reads.

Vasyl Slipak followed the "heavenly hundred". “Let the spivak now drink Sasha Biloma and Bandera!” - the commentator of social networks soberly concludes.

Vasily Yaroslavovich Slipakwas born on December 20, 1974 in Lviv. At Ukrainian opera singer, soloist of the Paris National Opera. He lived in France for over 19 years and made a brilliant career.

But when the war began in the East, he took the call sign "Myth" and went to defend the Donbass. When he returned to France, he volunteered, collected help for the Ukrainian army.

On June 29, 2016, he died exactly where fierce battles took place yesterday. The militants suffered terrible losses. It seems as if the ATO people avenged their fallen comrade, the great son of Ukraine.

"They fought off the attack of the separatists, with the participation of artillery, military equipment. Vasily died from a sniper’s bullet, with a machine gun in his hands,” Vasily’s commander Alexander, with the call sign “Drug Podolyanin,” told the journalist about how he died.

According to the stories of his comrades, Vasily was a machine gunner.

“We fought with him on the front line in the late spring and summer of 2015 near Sands,” says Grigory Pivovarov, Vasily’s brother from the 7th battalion of the DUK. “He participated in battles, went to concerts and then returned to the front again. And not only fought, but he also sent a lot of help to the guys.It's okay that Vasya was not a professional military man, but an artist - learning to fight when you love your country is not difficult, the main thing is desire and faith.He showed by his own example what it means to truly love the Motherland By the way, he turned out to be a good warrior. He also sang to us sometimes."

Military medic Yana Zinkevich reports that Slipak was mortally wounded in the lower part of his body. Later appeared official information: On June 18, Vasily went to Donbass to deliver the collected assistance to volunteer defenders, and planned to stay there for six months. But on June 29, while performing a combat mission as a machine gunner in the 1st assault company of the Right Sector Volunteer Ukrainian Corps (DUK PS), he died in battle at about 6:00 from an enemy 12.7 mm bullet fired by a sniper from a large-caliber rifle.

Vasily Slipak price own life saved comrades. Ukrainian defenders repelled the attack of Russian armed forces on the village. Luhansk (Bakhmutsky district Donetsk region) from the side of the city of Debaltseve and launched a counteroffensive, pushing the enemy back from two fortified positions on the heights near the village. Logvinovo.

It fell to the parents and elder brother Orest to bury Vasily. It was Orest who once took little Vasya "to music" - the child began to sing almost at the same time as he spoke. At the age of six, Vasily climbed onto the table at a village wedding and sang “Tell me, do you love or not? And it shines in your eyes:“ I am forever yours, ”and four years later, his elder brother took Vasily to the Dudarik choir.

In 1994 on international competition in France, a 20-year-old student of the Lviv Conservatory received the Grand Prix, and in 1996 he signed a contract with the Bastille Opera. He sang the part of the four devils from Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" in such a way that the audience called him Mephistopheles.

And here is the aria "Toreador", for the performance of which Vasily received the prize "Best Male Performance" at international festival opera singers in Armel.

Vasily lived in France, made an excellent career, but this did not alienate him from his homeland. When the Maidan began, he, not being able to go to Ukraine (he had a contract with the opera), arranged actions in support of Ukraine in France.

Parisian Ukrainians gathered at the Saint Michel fountain. This is where Symon Petlyura was once killed.

Vasily was proud of his first volunteer success - a Ford bought for the Right Sector with funds from a Paris demonstration.

He was proud, but thought that this was not enough. After living in France for 19 years, he left a star European life and came to defend his homeland.

So Vasily looked while working at the opera in Paris. An imposing man with aristocratic pallor and well-groomed hair.

And so he became in the Donbass, and only in memory of the scene he chose the call sign "Mephistopheles". Although, for convenience, it was reduced to "Myth" ... Because "Mephistopheles" screamed into the radio for too long.

He fought in the DUK "Right Sector".

"It all started with volunteering, "DUK PS" were our first godchildren, we call them that. We helped them with our entire volunteer organization "Fraternité Ukrainienne / Ukrainian Brotherhood". The first we helped was the 7th Battalion "DUK PS" ", I knew these people and it so happened that I am here, but it could have been some other battalion. This is how volunteering naturally grew into active participation," Mif told reporters.

Since last summer, Vasily has changed several units, they said at the main headquarters of the DUK PS. His last unit was the DUK assault company.

The latest posts on Vasily Slipak's Facebook page are about business. He collected money for his brothers, because he was not only a fighter, but also a volunteer. I was looking for 50 black berets. Who knows what for. Friends joked, they say, there are fur. Or pink.

On the morning of June 29, 2016, the jokes were replaced by dozens of questions. "Alive?", "Vasily, are you alive?", "What have you done, brother..."

Vasily was buried in his homeland, in Lvov.

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