Musician Roger Waters’ position on the Ukraine war remains controversial. This weekend, the already long soap opera had a new episode: reacting to the advance of the news that he would have canceled two concerts in Poland (a close ally of Ukraine) scheduled for April next year, the musician came to deny the cancellations and accused a councilman. of the Krakow city council of “draconian censorship”.
The British artist and former member of Pink Floyd, who has already called Joe Biden a “war criminal”, who criticizes the US for not “encouraging Zelensky to negotiate” and who opposes the supply of weapons from the West to the regime of kyiv published an open letter addressed to two journalists, Nadeem Badshah of the British newspaper The Guardian and Gazeta Krakowska of the Polish Gazeta Krakowska.
Dear Sir. and ma’am, your text messages are wrong when they say that the upcoming concerts in Krakow have been canceled by me or my management team. We don’t cancel them,” says Waters.
The musician points out that “a councilor from the city of Krakow, Mr. Lukasz Wantuch”, threatened to “schedule a meeting to ask the municipality” to “declare it persona non grata“. For Waters, this was due to his “public efforts to encourage everyone involved in the disastrous war in Ukraine, especially the US and Russian governments, to work for a negotiated peace, rather than escalate things until to be reached”. , which could be a nuclear war and the end of all life on this planet.”
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Source: Observadora
