The author of the texts for the songs of the Lyube group Shaganov spoke about the ban on swearing

Alexander explained what "Yo" means in the song about the Batyan-Combat

The famous Soviet and Russian poet Alexander Shaganov, the author of the lyrics of "Lyube", Alla Pugacheva, Sofia Rotaru, Lyudmila Zykina and dozens of other mega-popular performers, spoke at today's press conference dedicated to the World Day against profanity celebrated on February 3.

“There are charming swearers. But they need to be fought manually,” Shaganov said, stating that the obscene songs that teenagers listen to have become an alternative reality. At the same time, the songwriter himself never used obscene vocabulary in his works.

- I am often asked what “Yo” means in a song about a batyan commander: “So it beats, yo, battalion commander, yo, battalion commander!”.

- I'm fighting so that the letter Yo - with two dots, as expected, does not fall out of our language, - Shaganov joked.

And he immediately said publicly that "in the conditions of hostilities, this is permissible."

Psychologist Anetta Orlova confirmed Alexander Alekseevich’s idea that swearing works “in critical situations, in purely male communities” as a way to reduce stress. Including at the front.

It turns out that cursing for children is bad, it is a spiritual illness, yes. And lack of culture must be fought, "moving up, not down."

But, to paraphrase a song from a famous film about the Great Patriotic War, "who said that you need to throw swearing at the war?" Everything is like in a joke: “Smoking is harmful to health. But when Stalin smoked, the Ministry of Health kept quiet.”