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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: Elroy Jetson9/26/2025 3:13:48 PM
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On the evening on Sept. 20, Vladimir Putin staged the Intervision song contest, which Moscow proudly declared to be the superior replacement to the Eurovision song contest Russia has not been able to participate in since waging a war against European nations.

The show was a propaganda spectacle with the participation of the few who dared attend and those who had no choice but to attend.

In the Russian land of “traditional values” the winner of the song contest turned out to be a young, openly gay Vietnamese man in a dress, singer Duc Phuc.


TV host Yana Churikova said two hours before the show that the “whole planet Earth” was represented, to which host Dmitry Borisov happily confirmed: “Twenty countries!”

A parade of unknowns — random foreigners and mostly hired migrant workers dressed in costumes evoking various corners of the globe. Although the word “peace” was uttered more often than necessary on a Russian television show in a country waging war against NATO via “Ukrainian fascists,” the contest itself avoided such slips.

The Vietnamese, it seems, did their homework and charmed everyone in the room. And before the jury knew it, Phuc was on the winner’s pedestal receiving personal acclaim from Vladimir Putin and top Russian celebrities.

Russia desperately wants to live in this world, practically with its last strength, since everything in Russia looks like ersatz Europe: from endless Anglicisms in speech and urban design.

Even the light show served one obvious purpose — to copy Eurovision as closely as possible — which remains a thorn in the side of Russian patriots no matter how loudly they profess loyalty to India and China.

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