Putin praised Elon Musk for his ambitions in space, likening him to Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev and highlighting the importance of groundbreaking ideas in human progress.
I have been interested in Russia since reading a book when I was a young boy about the 1917 revolutions. It fascinated me that the Russian empire was replaced by another empire, the Soviet Union, which unleashed a lot of energy but rapidly became a brutal dictatorship under Stalin... This interest fed into the lyrics I wrote.