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Video: Blacklist of the Minister of Culture of the USSR Yekaterina Furtseva: Why did the most popular Soviet pop performers fall into disgrace
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The USSR Minister of Culture, Yekaterina Furtseva, was treated differently. Some were friends with her, others skillfully found an approach to the wayward official. Still others were refused even a telephone conversation. It was in her power to prohibit concerts, refuse to release a record, and not allow them on a foreign business trip. There were also those for whom Ekaterina Furtseva actually broke their lives. What was the reason for the hostile attitude of the Minister of Culture towards the most popular performers of the Soviet stage?
Vladimir Vysotsky
For a long time, Vladimir Vysotsky could not release a disc with his songs. It was simply impossible to overestimate its popularity, but already finished, recorded songs were not released. At a personal meeting, Furtseva, falling under the incredible charm of the performer, gave him the phone number of her receptionist. And then she told the secretary to always tell Vysotsky about the minister's employment.
The reason for the hostility towards the talented singer lay in his songs. To her, they seemed simply blasphemous. “At Kanatchikovaya dacha”, “Dialogue at the TV” - she perceived these songs as a challenge to her personally. Later, when the question arose about the departure of Vladimir Vysotsky abroad, she resisted to the last. She suppressed the interventions of the most influential patrons of the famous bard in the bud, strongly advising them not to meddle in their own business.
Tamara Miansarova
When Tamara Miansarova won the song contest in Sopot in 1963, Ekaterina Furtseva personally sent her congratulations, and sent the pilot-cosmonaut German Titov and Joseph Kobzon, who was already well-known at that time, to meet the singer at the plane's ladder. It seemed that Tamara Miansarova was among the favorites of the Minister of Culture. But everything changed in an instant. More precisely, in one night.
She was already the winner of the Druzhba pop song contest among performers from socialist countries, when Tamara Miansarova, along with other celebrities, was invited to celebrate the New Year in the Kremlin. Smiling, charming and very bright Miansarova was in the spotlight. The most famous people of the country paid attention to her, Yuri Gagarin danced with pleasure with her, Khrushchev personally wished her success. And Ekaterina Furtseva closely watched the success of the young singer.
And soon Miansarova was accused of lack of patriotism, the performance of songs alien to Soviet ideology. And she forbade her to perform the most famous songs from her repertoire. And the subordinates of the Minister of Culture felt the changed attitude towards pizza and simply stopped inviting her to participate in concerts and on television. The reason for the disgrace was only the youth and beauty of the performer. Furtseva did not forgive Tamara Miansarova for her wild success on New Year's Eve.
Claudia Shulzhenko
By the time Ekaterina Furtseva became Minister of Culture, Klavdia Shulzhenko had long been a star of the first magnitude. And she has always maintained her creative independence. The reason for the hostile relationship between the Minister of Culture and the singer was Furtseva's attempt to interfere in Shulzhenko's repertoire. Ekaterina Alekseevna tried to invite Claudia Shulzhenko to a conversation, during which she wanted to discuss her repertoire with the performer. To which Klavdia Ivanovna, in the presence of other people, replied: "Ekaterina Alekseevna, I can handle my repertoire myself!" At that moment, Furtseva was forced to swallow the resentment, and later was able to take revenge on the star. At all concerts, when Klavdia Ivanovna sang, she simply got up and defiantly left the hall, returning when the applause subsided.
Furtseva began to collect all the facts and cases concerning the singer. When Shulzhenko allowed herself to cancel the concert because of a beloved dog that fell under the car, a devastating feuilleton appeared in the central newspaper, ridiculing and condemning the behavior of the song queen.
When Shulzhenko applied for housing, the case was transferred to Furtseva for consideration. She even signed the warrant, following the verbal instructions of the management. But Klavdia Ivanovna allowed herself to come to the minister's reception in trousers. For which she was punished. First, a long wait in the waiting room, and after the words of the singer about Furtseva's bad upbringing, a refusal to provide housing.
Valery Obodzinsky
The popular singer, whose concerts were invariably sold out, sang about love in his original manner. His records were sold in thousands of copies, which was the reason for the beginning of his collapse.
Ekaterina Furtseva visited the Aprelevka gramopalstinok plant. And during her tour of the enterprise, it turned out that all the shops were printing a disc with Valery Obodzinsky's songs. The annoyed Minister of Culture ordered to immediately demagnetize the recording of the singer, and remove the record from production. And soon they canceled 19 of the 20 planned concerts of the singer at the Variety Theater. Radio and television were also closed for him with the direct participation of Sergei Lapin, chairman of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting under the Ministry of Culture.
It was then that the performer began to seek solace in alcohol. And later, pills were added to alcohol. His life was going downhill: he broke up with his wife, worked as a watchman. In 1991 he returned to the stage. The success was as overwhelming as before his disgrace. But he lived after that only 6 years.
Many saw in the actions of the Minister of Culture of the USSR Yekaterina Furtseva political motives, but in fact, very often she was guided only by her own dislike for one or another performer. But one cannot judge her personality unequivocally. She was a complex person and firmly believed in the ideals offered to her by the time. The Minister of Culture tried to accelerate the onset of a bright future in the ways available to her.
At one time, the songs performed by Aida Vedischeva were called vulgar by Ekaterina Furtseva. But the songs performed by her were sung by the entire Soviet Union. Everyone knew the voice of Aida Vedischeva, but the singer herself always remained behind the scenes. She was constantly obstructed: she was not indicated in the credits of films, concerts were canceled, and she was not allowed on television. And as a result, she was forced to make a decision that divided her life in two …
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