Is it true that Valentin Gaft is the author of the poem about the "Ostankino needle"?

For several years now, a poem has been walking on the network signed by the famous actor and poet, in which the author abruptly criticizes the Russian authorities for the fratricidal war. We checked whether Gaft really wrote such lines.

Here are the eight -winged question:

"The abscess was ripe, only hump - and will sprinkle,
And the bloody pus will flow by the river.
The Russian people have forgotten how to think.
They are injected with the Ostankino needle.

There were no such scum in power
So no one has been lying on earth yet.
He excites low passions,
So that the Russian Ukrainian kills. ”

The name of the actor, known for his caustic poetic epigrams, accompanies this work in numerous publications in social networks (Facebook, "VKontakte"), as well as on such information resources as Dynamo.kiev.ua, PEOPles.ru, Dialog.ua or "Anticor". In 2022, this poem was remembered on the resource "Farmer of Pre..

Valentin Gaft I passed away In December 2020, but there is no catch with chronology here: the poem appeared in Runet long before its death. In particular, lines can be found in A selection of poems about Russiapublished on January 24, 2015, and this is one of the earliest preserved publications of material on the network. July 30 of the same year became It is knownthat the name Gaft fell into the Ukrainian “White List” of foreign cultural figures who should provide maximum assistance in the country, along with Russians such as Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Boris Akunin or Zemfira. Since the GAFTA pro -Ukrainian statements about the situation with the Crimea and Donbass at that time were not known, it was logical to assume that it was the widely widely dispersed that was the reason for its inclusion in this list by the country's authorities.

However, on August 11 in an interview "Komsomolskaya Pravda" Valentin Gaft categorically refuted his authorship, dislikedly responding to the poem and saying that he would rather prefer to be on the Black List. In the same spirit, he spoke in September interview Evgeny Dodolev on the channel "Moscow 24". Thus, the Soviet and Russian actor not only did not write such lines, but also did not agree with their meaning.

Who, then, the author of the sensational poem? Searches show that in December 2014 he wrote and placed it in his Facebook (today this post has already been deleted) Russian emigrant poet Alexei Chernakov. But at least in January next year, the lines hung on the Internet already beyond the authorship of Valentina Gaft. By April 2015, Chernakov learned about this and wrote fastIn which he expressed pride for the fact that his poems attributed to the illustrious actor. IN August And September, after a few interviews of Gaft, the author’s reaction was no longer so benevolent. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that it was he, and not Valentin Gaft, wrote a poem about "injections of the Ostankino needle." Alas, 2020 He took life Not only Valentina Gaft, but also Alexei Chernakov himself.

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