All our lives they groomed US to dislike RUS. They have never done anything good for humanity in the US. They've lied to US about everything .
Knowing what you know now. It's time to RECONCILE!
Re-read the drops
“Russians”, the fourth single from The Dream of the Blue Turtles, reached the top 30 in nine countries including a #16 US and #12 UK peak. It remained his highest-charting UK single until 1994.
Sting was inspired to write “Russians” during the Cold War after watching a pirated satellite Russian broadcast of Russian children’s television programming and realizing “Russians love their children just as we do”. Its melody is based on “Lieutenant Kije Suite” by Russian composer Prokofiev.
Sting originally wanted to record it in Russia, but politics didn’t allow him to. He made it clear in 1985 that “It’s not a pro-Soviet song, it’s pro-children.”
The track resurfaced to public attention again in March 2022, when the British singer himself performed it in an Instagram video he uploaded in response to the violent escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, as troops from the former country (as well as Belarus) invaded the latter.
Sting told Record Magazine in 1985:
I feel very strongly that in order to relax East-West tension, you can’t leave it to the politicians anymore – they’ve proved themselves totally inept: lt’s up to individuals to make contact with one’s counterpart behind the so-called Iron Curtain in order to ascertain and confirm that they are human beings and not demographic sub-robotic morons. So I felt that it was important to go to the Soviet Union and perhaps meet fellow musicians and do something together. Unfortunately I came up against the bureaucracy that politicians put in front of you. It’s not easy to get into the Soviet Union to make a record – and it should be. I’d love to take this band to Russia. I think it would freak them out … It’s not a pro-Soviet song, it’s pro-children. It’s a very obvious statement to me but one that isn’t being made. The wheels were set in motion but it’s taken a very long time to do because of the politics of going through the Politburo and having them sanction it. My feeling is that you have to make contact with our potential enemies, people you might be expected to kill or be killed by.
In 2022, soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Sting posted a video of himself singing this song, adding the following:
I’ve only rarely sung this song in the many years since it was written, because I never thought it would be relevant again. But, in the light of one man’s bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity. For the brave Ukrainians fighting against this brutal tyranny and also the many Russians who are protesting this outrage despite the threat of arrest and imprisonment – We, all of us, love our children. Stop the war.
https://genius.com/Sting-russians-lyrics
Puppet sleepwalker on bottom right.