Ukrainian opera singer Vasily Spivak. A famous opera singer was killed by a sniper in eastern Ukraine. Photo. Video. The secret to low losses

“I can’t help but grieve about the Ukrainian singer Vasily Slipak, who died in the ATO,” writes Kiev priest Alypiy Svetlichny about a native of Lvov, a Right Sector volunteer. - Great voice, talent, well-deserved attention. It would seem that the person 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 of other worthy people who created their own myth! A myth that encourages war!

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

“Vasyl Slipak died during strange circumstances, which should be further studied. There are a lot of ambiguities, writes Fr. Alypy on Facebook. - However, I would like you to listen to the song “Oh, the dawn of the evening has come over Pochaev” performed by the deceased. It is believed that the words and music of the song are folk. The story is about the time of St. Job of Pochaev, who is called in the song by his nickname - Iron. Turks and Crimean Tatars attacked the Pochaevsky monastery, and the Mother of God protected it with the prayers of St. Job. The song is beautiful, touching and reflects 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 what Reverend Job was an Orthodox monk, that the icon of the Mother of God of Pochaev is a blessing from the Orthodox Patriarch. They easily deny Orthodoxy to Orthodox saints, signing them up as their supporters. And the Baptist of Rus', Prince Vladimir, is equally “their Baptist” for them. They are not at all embarrassed that they renounced the faith of their fathers and the same Equal-to-the-Apostles Vladimir who betrayed Orthodoxy! Important for them big names, they steal history to discredit it with their unscrupulousness. Ukrainianness itself is a religion in which Christ and the Mother of God, saints and historical figures are visible, like knots in an embroidered shirt.

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

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

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 those put to shame by the Most Holy Theotokos Crimean Tatars and predatory Turks. About the Orthodox Saint Job. Sings as if everything is normal. The conscience is clear, lulled into slumber and sweet bliss. There is no cognitive dissonance felt. It’s not for nothing that some performers now call this song “Ukrainian folk lull.” Sorry for the singer. It's sad that he died without figuring it out. Lulled by false ideas. Without the true Lord Christ."

The spiritual father also speaks about the historical betrayal of Uniateism, about 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 come” is not an opera aria, but a spiritual verse. The operatic style is absolutely alien to the style of spiritual poetry. And it would be better to listen to this song performed by some blind lyrnyk, a wandering Kalika, and not by the false spivak Slipak. Find yourself with your bright vocals most adequately here, watch it " opera singing"at the Eiffel Tower. In the credits for the video it is called culturally, even in Russian: “Flash mob, Paris, conductor Vasily Slipak.” However, listen to what exactly and how exactly this spivak sings...

Publicist Eva Merkuryeva, who titled her article “Operation Provocation,” is inclined to conclude that “the singer Vasyl Slipak was killed by his ‘brothers,’” since the sacrifice he desired was long overdue. “Firstly, direct calculation on the reaction of 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 Europeans. A soloist of the Paris Opera, who in 1997 left to pursue a career in France, was killed by a “Russian-terrorist sniper” during a “militant attack” - this is just the way to convey to Europe the Ukrainian picture of the conflict in Donbass. Moreover, in France, for example, “Ukrainian patriots”, even at the level of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Parliament, failed to prevent the release of the scandalous film “Masks of the Revolution” on TV.

Secondly, Galicia needs a Ukrainian known in Europe more than ever - " fallen hero"from the ranks of the creative intelligentsia. Which seems to materialize 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 are “deep” thoughts have already rushed across the networks at a gallop.

It was very necessary to motivate the Galicians to escalate 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 Kiev, and some of them are their own, home-grown, that it’s time to look for ways to peace, that Lvov’s garbage literally continues to poison life, that the Maidan was a riot (especially if you look at the pictures of a joyful Yatsenyuk in Washington). And so on".

The analyst develops a noteworthy idea: “There is another seemingly inconspicuous moment - the promotion of the Right Sector, where Slipak fought. Allegedly, it was “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 the question of 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 goals of the crazy Ukrainian “offensive” on the night of June 29, according to its organizers, was to provide the scenery for the murder 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 repelled by the Right Sector, but the long arm of the sniper killed the singer-fighter, known throughout Paris Opera».

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

Analysts give examples.

Viktor Tregubov, journalist: “One of the most unpleasant properties of this particular war is that the soloists of the Paris Opera are being exchanged for car wash workers in Ryazan regional centers.”

Lyudmila Dobrovolskaya, news presenter of the 1+1 TV channel: “I’m listening to his Toreador. What a voice and what a heart! Died at the hands of a primitive givi-like creature, which was so generous land Donbass And we will smile to our hearts’ content at his killers and allow these Pithecanthropus and their one-celled descendants to 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 her. I don’t apologize for hate speech - I don’t have anything else 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 cross-section of society. The Russian world is losing car wash workers. Ukraine - opera singers, journalists, IT specialists, businessmen... Russia is grinding up the Ukrainian gene pool. It is doing to Ukraine what it has been doing to itself for centuries. I heard Slipak’s name today for the first time, but the very fact of losing this life is a tragedy for me.”

This is manipulation, but also idiotic self-pronunciation: 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 garbage cattle,” “washers of Ryazan car washes.” How they hate everything Russian! What “European” arrogance, however! Where did she come from? From what heights of “Ukrainian aristocracy” and blue Aryan blood are these custom clickers broadcasting?

Here you can’t help but 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 “Lvov” resonance.

Kiev publicist Maxim Ravreba sarcastically, even caustically, wrote on Facebook about the Lviv memorial service and about the “culprit” of the mournful event: “A modest funeral of a simple opera soldier. Lemberg. Today. Not for nothing about civil war in Ukraine the word "operetta" was said. Operetta revolution, operetta war and operetta soldiers. It’s clear that I’m talking now specifically about this poser and dude, who was not at all a soloist and bass-baritone of the Parisian opera house (by the way, which one? Opera de Paris, Opera Garnier or Grand Opera?), but an opera guest worker - Galicia from Lviv in search of a long oir. But in fact, he is a neo-Nazi, psychopath, racist, maniac and achtung, who imagines himself to be a singing Cossack Rembanko and cunningly planned to capitalize his photos with automatic weapons and rifles in his further guest worker operetta biography. But that’s not about that now. He had already received his award; the biography ended with a well-aimed shot from a Soviet rebel. The subject no longer sings, but lies calmly in a very expensive hearse, and after the proper spells are cast over him, he will be buried and forgotten forever, as if he never existed on our gentle planet. This always happens. But I’m talking about the subject’s modest funeral in Lemberg. To whom there is war, and to whom the mother is dear: to whom there is a common pit near Zaporozhye or Odessa in the place where surgical waste is buried, and to whom a hearse from the Mercedes-Benz company is used. There is no justice on earth, but believe me, IT IS ABOVE! It's worth thinking about."

If you look at a selection of photographs of this singer, you can see how his facial features were distorted. A last photo- simply terrible. It is clear that this is a crazy person. And the nickname, derived from the devil, probably corresponded to his last state mind. Alas.

Some shed tears for the lost talent. And they probably forget that he went to kill people. If you go to kill, remember that they can kill you 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 per person, get a weapon and shoot uncontrollably wherever they go,” writes Kiev publicist Miroslava Berdnik.

It’s surprising to read on social networks the private opinions of some commentators from the Donetsk republics, who claim that if we put it aside, we should still respect the murdered man, because “a man, a warrior, made his own choice, took up arms,” so to speak, “he left his hut, went to fight..." and, they say, why condemn him! This is amazing relativism, showing that some of our comrades perceive reality in a spiritually immature way - almost like role-playing game, where good guys are divided into two teams and just play ours and theirs. In the case of Slipak (this surname translates as “blind”), we are dealing with a murderer who came to Novorossiya to “kill Muscovites”, confused by a false idea. Yes, Spivak of the Paris Opera himself made his choice (or the demon that possessed him) - but in favor of murder, as part of the Nazi Azov battalion.

Odessa anti-Maidan activist Alexander Vasiliev sums up common feature under the thought of sacred victims“revolution of hydity”: “The slogan of marginal Ukrainian nationalists “Slaves are not allowed to go to heaven” during the “Euromaidan” turned into a guide to action. Slaves meant law-abiding citizens loyal to the current regime, and paradise meant the European Union. Contrary to concrete practice and common sense, a feeling arose that the road to the kingdom of free consumption could be paved with one’s breasts. In the same way, this belief contradicted the Christian teaching about heaven and the ways to find oneself in it. To a greater extent, this imperative corresponded to some kind of warlike paganism in the Scandinavian manner, in which paradise - Valhalla - is a gathering place for warriors killed in battle. It is not surprising that people who died in street clashes with law enforcement agencies, 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 the people who came to power on the blood of these fighters who went to heaven, under the promises of European integration, started a war in the country they inherited?”

You can also recall the fashion trend of Svidomites that preceded the Euromaidan: “Oh my God, why am I not a Muscovite!” Which God were they thanking? Obviously not the One Who has neither Greek nor Jew.

And before the body of the murdered man had been, as they say, lowered into the grave, a petition was registered on the website of the Lviv City Council to rename Tchaikovsky Street to Vasily Slipak Street. “To properly honor the memory of the newest Ukrainian Hero, a fighter of the Russian-Ukrainian war, a world-famous opera singer, Lviv resident Vasyl Slipak-Mephistopheles, who tragically died on June 29 near the village of Luhanskoye, Donetsk region from a Russian sniper’s bullet, it is proposed to: Change the name of Tchaikovsky Street (“ Russian composer with Ukrainian roots" - so in the text. - L.Z.) to the street of the hero of Ukraine Vasyl Slipak,” the text of the petition says.

Vasyl Slipak followed the “heavenly hundred”. “Let the spivak now drink Sashka Bilom and Bandera!” - the commentator on social networks soberly concludes.

The man who died in the ATO zone in Donbass turned out to be the brother of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Vladimir Omelyan. The head of the ministry himself wrote about this on his Facebook page, but without specifying relation degree.

Omelyan shared his memories of the killed fighter 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, straight spine and the truth from his mouth. He lived by what he did. Not he just sang, but was the hero of the stage. That’s how he fought. Without talking about the war itself. He loved his friends and girlfriends, firmly cut off his enemies, lived for Ukraine,” Omelyan wrote.

“Once, as a child, I pinched his finger in a door. The nail came off, but the new one did not grow well. “It’s a sign, brother always thinks about you,” he laughed when we met and pointed with that finger.

Infinitely sociable, ready to give his last and just as carefree to come to you for a day, and stay or invite you for several months,” said Omelyan.

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

“The stage was his calling. It was his Hollywood. He had been going to it since childhood. “Dudarik”, French Grand Prix, Paris Opera–an achievement not only personal, but also, as it seemed to us, of the whole of Ukraine and our family,” the minister also wrote.

Let us recall that he fought in the Donbass in the ranks of the DUK Right Sector Opera singer Basil

Yesterday, Ukrainian media reported a sad event. Not far from the village of Luhanskoye, early in the morning, at six in the morning, singer Vasily Slipak was killed by a sniper bullet. There was also a story about the fate of this man, his beliefs, and the fact that he was famous all over the world. His interview was repeated on television many times, in which the artist spoke about himself and called on all healthy men under the age of 50 to visit the ATO zone to make sure that the war will end soon, obviously victoriously. This story would have been a high patriotic example, but... The singer’s body had not yet been buried, when some extremely unpleasant circumstances for the authorities became clear.

Life path

You can treat it any way you want political views Vasyl Slipak, but even the most staunch opponents of Ukrainian nationalism cannot deny him honesty and sincerity. The singer, albeit in his own way, certainly loved his country. For the sake of celebration national idea he left the opera stage and not just anywhere, but in Paris. There he performed arias, folk songs, he had fans, admirers, and also fees for performances, according to Ukrainian standards, simply astronomical. And it was not for the sake of earning money that he returned to his homeland, but his heart called him. Vasily would not have sent home refrigerators and televisions taken from the broken houses of residents of the Donetsk region; he did not need it. On the contrary, he collected money for ATO fighters and spent his own money, purchasing cars and all sorts of other things needed during the war. The singer lived abroad for almost two decades, and when he learned that Ukraine was attacked by an insidious enemy, he did not stand aside, but became first a volunteer, and then a warrior. Death cut short this wonderful destiny. This is roughly how they talk about Vasily Slipak on TV, subtly hinting to all those liable for military service where their place is.

Slipak about military affairs

TV interview, given by Vasily Slipak shortly before his death, very interesting to listen to. If the unknown sniper from the DPR knew whose “lower torso area” 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 spent only a short time at the front, just a couple of weeks, and during this time he hardly managed to inflict any damage on the enemy, especially since he had never served in the army and did not know military affairs at all. Moreover, Vasily did not think that this was necessary. He told the journalist who asked him questions that the main thing in war is not combat skills, but patriotism in the heart, and everything else is a simple matter. It was clear that he was not lying, but said what he thought. In a strange way these thoughts echo general principles The Ukrainian army, which, of course, is increasingly switching to contract system, but this doesn’t make it any more professional. Officers are “retrained” for a month, and any of them, from supplies to artillerymen. Where the shells fired by such “specialists” fly is known to many residents of Donbass who survived, of course.

Official losses

According to the press service of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, less than three thousand military personnel 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 of Ukraine, the National Guard and border guards. However, just a year ago, when asked about the real number of deaths, officers who had been in the war answered without a shadow of a doubt: “at least dozens,” meaning, of course, thousands. Mournful processions passed through the streets of different settlements, reports of large-scale “cauldrons” replaced one another, entire military groups were surrounded, losing a significant part during evacuation personnel. And today people continue to die, soldiers and officers, volunteers and mobilized, including by force. All these facts do not in any way confirm the official figures. The data are clearly underestimated, and implausibly, which gives grounds for the most gloomy assumptions, perhaps even overestimated.

What does it have to do with it deceased singer? A little patience.

Where did volunteer Slipak serve?

Vasily Slipak fought not in some part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, but in a completely different armed formation. In the aforementioned interview, 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 welcomed in the European Union. In these bold speeches, the singer actually admitted his status as a mercenary. He fought in the DUK (Ukrainian Volunteer Corps) of the Right Sector, banned in Russia, by the way, or more precisely in its seventh battalion. This unit enjoys a particularly bad reputation among the LPR militias; they are being fought for complete destruction, and, as a rule, no prisoners are taken in battles with them.

DUK and its role in the war

Again, unlike ordinary conscripts 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 is a common phenomenon now), “pravosek” 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, the command, as they say, “plugs the holes” with them, they are sent on reconnaissance, some kind of raids and other dangerous enterprises, where ordinary Armed Forces officers cannot be lured 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 army soldier is now an event that is reported on the Internet and on television, then members of volunteer formations are dying unknown. As Slipak said, “they just aren’t there.” It’s clear that he chatted a lot and casually revealed an important state secret, but what can we take from him - an artist. Especially now.

Slipak loads the magazine and sings, sings...

This video is very popular and is viewed by many. An opera singer sits at a makeshift table, in front of him is a handful of cartridges, he rhythmically clicks them into the magazine of a Kalashnikov assault rifle and quietly but beautifully hums the Ukrainian song to the beat. folk song. He, in fact, has a very pleasant voice, rich in nuances, and not just falling under some generally accepted operatic standards, but a very rare counter-tenor. Vasily sometimes entertained his colleagues with his small concerts; they especially liked the patriotic repertoire. This video recording captured a similar moment, almost everyday, but not without a touch of artistry. Patriots like this scene, they think that Slipak is sitting, humming, filling up the store, and then he will take a machine gun and “separate everyone.” It turned out the other way around, but the enemies of the new Ukraine have no reason to gloat. With his death, the artist of the Parisian Opera Bastille theater exposed a secret mechanism that allows underestimating the real losses of the Ukrainian side, and something else.

The secret to low losses

The Ukrainian media, of course, somewhat exaggerated the world-wide fame of Slipak, the singer performed roles most often in minor theaters, signed two or three contracts annually, and La Scala did not invite him, but he had a certain fame, as well as a 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 to be found. The Right Sector does not count the dead. Sometimes, when volunteers manage to obtain a corpse, the fallen hero is brought to hometown and arrange a magnificent funeral, as a rule, at their own expense. Slipak will be buried in Lvov, this has already been reported, he is a celebrity after all. It's so rare for someone to be lucky...

Who's shooting?

Another point that may lead to a real discovery, and this is again due to the death of singer Vasily Slipak. Since the “Right Sector” is nowhere to be found, no one is monitoring its compliance with the Minsk agreements. But someone is shooting near Peski, Avdeevka and on the Svetlodar Bulge? It can be assumed that it is they, those “who are not there,” who act as heroes and cover themselves with unfading glory.

All that remains is to express my condolences to the parents and brother of Myth (a pseudonym in honor of Vasil Slipak’s favorite opera character, Mephistopheles). He sang beautifully. May he rest in peace...

World-famous opera singer Vasyl Slipak, who became a Ukrainian volunteer after the start of the war in Donbass, was killed by a sniper in eastern Ukraine.

Vasily Slipak lived and worked in France for 19 years, but after the start of the war in Donbass, he went to the front as a volunteer as part of the Right Sector.

Vasily Spivak on the Maidan in Kyiv during a farewell to the Right Sector fighters who died on June 11, 2016. This is Vasily's last trip to Kyiv. Photo: Yuri Butusov/Facebook

Journalist Yuri Butusov announced the death on his page in Facebook.

“Vasyl Slipak, a world-famous opera singer, who lived and worked in France for 19 years, sang at the Paris Opera, but with the onset of Russian aggression he left his European career and returned to defend his homeland, died at the front near Donetsk in the ranks of the Right Sector,” wrote He.

According to him, Slipak's call sign was Myth, short for Mephistopheles, a character in his favorite opera Faust.

Vasily Slipak is a world-famous opera singer, one of the most famous baritones, has been awarded numerous vocal awards. For the aria “Toreador” he received the “Best Male Performance” award at international festival opera performers, held in Armel.

While working in France, he sang on such famous stages as the Paris Grand Opera, Athenaeum, Opera Bastille, and performed at opera houses the cities of Massy and Saint-Etienne, as well as in the Lyon “Amphitheater 3000”.

Later Ministry of Culture confirmed fact of Slipak’s death and expressed condolences:

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine expresses sincere condolences to loved ones, relatives, compatriots and the entire Ukrainian society in connection with the loss of a true hero of their land. Glory to the hero! Eternal memory to him!

The frontman of the group “Okean Elzy” Svyatoslav Vakarchuk shared his thoughts on the death of the famous opera singer Vasily Slipak in Donbass.

The singer wrote about this on his Twitter page.

“I didn’t know Vasily Slipak personally. But now he is in my memory forever! He and his voice... Heroes don’t die!” the musician wrote.