Opening of the exhibition “The Month of May” in the Open Air Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard. Veterans were outraged by the “Botox” exhibition about the Great Patriotic War. Glamorous Russian stars turned out to bear little resemblance to the heroes of terrible battles Project for the month of May who sings

From May 8, the exhibition “The Month of May” dedicated to Victory Day opens in the Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard. The exposition was organized with the support of the All-Russian Public Movement “Immortal Regiment of Russia”, the ProLab Producer Center and the Creative Digital Agency “Follow Me”.

The project is named so for a reason. The reason for the massive patriotic star “uprising” was Yulia Parshut’s song “The Month of May,” which won the International Music Song Contest “Immortal Regiment.” This song was written by Yulia Parshuta’s father about his mother, Yulia’s grandmother, who was a driver at the front. Yulia’s grandmother went to the front at twenty-one and went through the entire war. It was her story that formed the basis of the song “The Month of May”, and also served as the beginning of a large-scale project, and maybe even an entire movement, uniting eras and generations!

The stars who took part in the project got used to the roles of their heroic ancestors so deeply and organically that the famous Moscow photographer Pavel Izrin created artistic images war heroes, capturing a rare moment of an actor's immersion in the role of his hero. It was these best moments of filming mini-films that became the basis of the presented photo exhibition.

The first exhibition venue where the project will be presented will be the Gallery on Tverskoy Boulevard, the only open-air art photo gallery in Moscow, created by the ProLab Production Center to demonstrate the best photo projects exclusively by Russian authors.

Participating in the project: Anna Khilkevich, Sati Casanova, Victoria Bonya, Anna Semenovich, Nelly Ermolaeva, Irena Ponaroshku, Aiza Anokhina, Nathan, Alexander Sokolovsky, Diana Melison, Evelina Bledans, Timur Batrutdinov, Gohar Avetisyan, Ida Galich, Kirill Popelnyuk (ORLANDO) , Vasily and Yulia Smolny, Daria and Sergei Pynzar, Ksenia Borodina and her husband Kurban Omarov.

I wonder how long they will continue to dwell on the topic of the Great Patriotic War, turning it into an absurd clownery or some other commercial projects with the participation of “pop and film stars”? Not enough sickening concerts and pompous parades? When will all this farce finally end?

A photo exhibition called “The Month of May” is taking place on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow. Here, for example, is what its organizers say:

“In honor of Victory Day, the stars of Russian show business united and took part in the unique project “Month of May.” Ksenia Borodina and Kurban Omarov, Anna Khilkevich, Victoria Bonya, Anna Semenovich, Timur Batrutdinov, Sati Casanova and other celebrities posed for a photo shoot in military uniform and with weapons in hand, to remember with what efforts the Soviet people achieved victory over Nazi Germany."

After reading this release I want to swear dirty.

Meanwhile, even the veterans themselves are outraged by such disgrace and have already written dozens of appeals to Veteran News. Here's what my friend Vitaly said: dervishv Ragulin, who knows first-hand what real combat is like:

“I walked along the alley of Tverskoy Boulevard and was horrified when I saw these photographs! The participants of the action seemed to have seen enough of American films. You wanted to honor the feat of the people in the Victory over fascism, but it all turned out very badly! The photographs were made with high quality, but they do not make me proud. Better If they would help the remaining veterans, they would hold a community cleanup at mass graves, and not fool around on camera in someone else’s uniform and with someone else’s orders!”

I don’t know whether the organizers of this whole photo booth wanted “the best” or (most likely) they were banally pursuing exclusively the material component, but it turned out exactly that “as always.” Moreover, every year the victorious frenzy takes on more and more ridiculous and sophisticated forms. Isn’t it time to introduce a law on insulting not only believers, but also those who participated in numerous armed conflicts, including those who survived those terrible years of 1941-45?

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Photo exhibition dedicated to Victory Day in Great Britain Patriotic War 1941−1945, caused the indignation of many Moscow veterans. Over the past month, photographs of Russian show business stars in the guise of military heroes have been shown on Tverskoy Boulevard in the capital. Participants in the “Month of May” project were Sati Kazanova, Anna Semenovich, Ksenia Borodina with her husband Kurban Omarov, Yulia Parshuta, Evelina Bledans, Irena Ponaroshku, Timur Batrudinov, Anna Khilkevich and others. As a result, the star project “The Month of May” was called bad taste and self-promotion on a sacred topic.

The exhibition evoked negative responses from veterans of wars, local military conflicts, members of their families and families of fallen defenders of the Fatherland. This was reported by the publication “Veteranskie Vesti”. Some of the images presented in the photo were considered comical and parody by Muscovites and guests of the city. The glamorous faces of the stars, expensive manicures and hairstyles, according to some viewers, do little to reflect the tragedy of the war and human destinies of that time.

As journalist Vitaly Ragulin told Reedus, from conversations with veterans he made a clear decision - many of them frankly did not like the photo exhibition.

I talked to veterans of the Afghan war, the Korean war, the war in Tajikistan, and everyone has a negative attitude towards this exhibition. There were projects in Moscow where historical photographs were hung, this makes people happy. And this glamor is just terrible. If these stars wanted to promote themselves, they could hold a cleanup day at mass graves or give money for work on the restoration of monuments, for organizations that are engaged in the search and reburial of soldiers who are still lying in the forests. I looked at the project, looked videos, and what they did [as part of the exhibition] is not at all patriotic and I don’t see any respect for memory in it. This is my opinion and the opinion of many combat veterans with whom I spoke,” Ragulin emphasized.

The photo exhibition “It was the month of May” is a project of photographer Pavel Izrin. The exhibition was organized with the support of the All-Russian Public Movement “Immortal Regiment of Russia” and was positioned as a project that “worthily conveys the chronicle of those events from generation to generation, preserving the patriotic heritage and memory of veterans, increasing the scale of solemn events dedicated to the Victory.”