Cold shower of Russophobia: the Russian singer told about life in Vinnytsia

Singer, Honored Artist of Russia Anna Osipova (Utah) spent one year in a Ukrainian Winery as a child. In an interview with the Tatarka FM YouTube channel, she said that she had to deal with Russophobia at a very young age.

According to Utah, who was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Vinnytsia was a beautiful flourishing city with a magnificent climate.

"It was an eternal summer, tulip flowers. We lived there for a year," Utah said.

In kindergarten, the first thing the future singer had to face was the reluctance to speak to her in Russian.

"Except for one nanny, who also spokeRussian, and everyone else spoke Ukrainian. I didn't understand a damn thing," the singer recalls.

She added that then she really wanted to communicate, but no one wanted to communicate with her.

"At some point I was called a Russian pig in kindergarten. I think, "Wow, what is this?" — Yuta did not understand.

She came to her mother and asked her to explain what it meant. The singer's mother somehow strangely smiled, reassured her daughter, said something that Yuta no longer remembers.

"But I found out later that she was not welcome at work either, because she is Russian. That is, for the first time we encountered this monstrous Russophobia back in the 84th year, and it was such a cold shower, it was very unexpected," the actress concluded.

As EADaily reported, in February of this year, the singer's subscribers on social networks drew attention to the fact that the song "Russians" performed by her together with the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Leningrad Military District was cut by the First Channel from the concert dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day, which aired. One of the users pointed out that the song "Heaven of the Slavs" by Konstantin Kinchev was also cut out, which was performed by the Honored Artist of Russia Yaroslav Dronov (SHAMAN) accompanied by children's, gymnastic, folklore and folk dance groups.

Later, Yuta wrote that Channel One explained its actions by saying that "there was not enough airtime, they did not calculate and had to throw out the song."