Russian rock musician Alexander Marshal in an interview with Arguments and Facts announcedWhy did he return to Russia from the USA despite his success abroad. According to Marshall, he was disappointed with the United States.
He recalled that the group went to the United States in 1987 under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. “We wanted to visit a country about which a lot has been said. This was believed to be the center of democracy and the best thing out there. When we arrived, we loved everything, we could not figure out what to hold on to in the first place – our eyes widened, ”recalls the Marshal.
But the musician continued, it turns out that the country has flaws, and ordinary Americans are ordinary people. “They don’t live as luxuriously as we see from Moscow. We visited places in the USA that I never understood how to live. Propaganda in general undoubtedly did its job at that time, and we imagined everything differently, not as in reality … ”
The Marshal admitted that the truth upset him. “Because expectations were not met. On the other hand, I realized that all ordinary people, I do not mean a group of politicians who decide our fate, ordinary people on planet Earth live in the same and approximately equal conditions, ”the statement said. concluded.
Formerly Alexander Marshal saidThat his father, who was buried in Ukraine, was buried for him.