'Let them say what they want', the Russian show that hits record sensationalism

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He was barely a minute and a half on the set when the 17 -year -old was booed by the public who watched her.“What did you drink that day!?Tell him! ”, It was the first question, the screams, which she heard from the mouth of a collaborator Diana Shurygina, victim of a rape during a party."He had drunk vodka," she replied nervously among the background murmurs.The stands stirred and the inquisitor further increased his aggressiveness."And how much?A bottle?Half bottle?You do not remember?Sincerely!With sincerity! ”, It was the next burst against the young woman, who barely managed to respond, atosigated by the background voices and the presence of the mother of her aggressor on the sofa in front:" I took a few cups, just a few aboutculines ”.

It was the first of the five spaces that the Russian program Pust Govoriat (who say what they want, in Spanish) dedicated to the young woman. With them she achieved colossal audiences. A month before her issuance, in December 2016, her aggressor had been firmly sentenced to more than eight years in jail. The medical and police reports (under summary for being a minor of it) tested, among other things, that he hit the victim after locking up with her in her room. But now it was a different trial. Days after the show, Diana and her family had to leave their city for the attacks they received. For many neighbors, her explanations before the cameras showed that she was an irresponsible, a provocative that had brought the ruin of the convicted. For Pust Govoriat, the Diana phenomenon was a golden reef and dedicated other chapters to her relationship with another major of her, her instagramer career and the memes that circulated on her. Burger King came to launch a campaign with her fingers's silhouette when she indicated that she had only drunk "culines." That became a national debate between two sides, that of Diana and that of the convicted person, whose penalty would be reviewed later by house arrest.

Pust Govoriat is not just one of Russia's most controversial programs: he is also one of the most veteran. On July 23, 2021, it fulfilled two decades if its two original formats are included. The first, Gran Colada, debuted in the summer of 2001. According to a chronicle from the time of the Izhvestia newspaper, the Public Canal Pervy Kanal (then ORT) was inspired by those years on Western televisions to change its grill down. The summer period was the best to try new proposals without risk, and the idea of ​​this format was very simple: "While you put the washing machine you feel to listen to an interview program." He was scheduled at four in the afternoon and his commitment to the "social story" triumphed: his stories covered from boring marriages and infidelities to the misadventures of the provincial man in Moscow. "A soap opera without written script," said their own producers. The other key, without a doubt, was the one who would be his presenter for 16 seasons, Andréi Malájov, capable of squeezing before the camera the most intimate emotions of his guests.

The second era of the program took place between 2003 and 2004, when the direction of the channel renamed him like five afternoons because he wanted to get away from frivolity and give him a more sober and respectable tone, betting on debates on great social issues and international politics.His slogan said everything: "Malájov has become more serious."

The decorum lasted a sigh and to save the audience they ended up speaking from time to time as relevant issues as the virginity of Dom-2 participants, Russian Big Brother.After the August holidays, the presenter returned with Pust Govoriat, a 180 -degree turn whose philosophy remains law in the description of its website: “Royal stories reach the soul more than pretentious discussions on general issues, because when we bringDiscussing the particular problem of an individual, of a family, we talk about what worries us all without exception. ”

The antihero of the program is usually an anonymous citizen, someone who could be the neighbor in front and seeks Amparo in the face of the cruelties of life.However, on other occasions it is played by exhibiting the victim against the cause of his misfortunes.A recent broadcast was promoted asking "how a couple became a threat to each other."His guest was the husband of a teacher whom he locked in a room and assaulted for three weeks.He barely weighed 35 kilos when he left."Nope!Nope!My son could not have done it.I don't know if she fell, but he didn't! ”The mother of man said in tears while the public channel showed photos of the women's bruises and other wounds in the hospital.

In addition, Pust Govoriat also has a hole for celebrities.Lindsay Lohan demanded to interview Putin to talk about her divorce with a Russian billionaire, and some celebrities have starred in sound episodes.One of them was the one who focused on the presenter Dana Borísova, whose program was recorded days before "not to give you alternative," as Malájov told him in a camera speech at the end.The journalist's mother told there, sunk, that her daughter was addicted to drugs, something that the space driver himself recognized "and she had silent two years."While the program was issued with a petition for donations to help her, the presenter and other acquaintances of her went to her house to enter her in a rehabilitation clinic.

Pust Govoriat has created school and there are versions in even more aggressive private chains, such as male/female.And although the program does not forget that sometimes the spectator with light themes such as Eurovision or the viral internet phenomena should be given, their two decades of success are based on what some Russians compare with the stories of Antón Chekhov: stories of failed, unhappy, liars ... where the next is harder than the previous one.

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