The Making of Krishna Kids Mike Willesse Show

Why did you want to be involved in this recording? To help the Soviet relations get out of the jails in Russia and the hospitals and everything. What do you think it's like for them over there? Hellish. What have you been told? I mean what do you think they're going through compared to the lifestyle that you can live?

Hell. Why will the song help? Because everybody likes music and hopefully they'll listen to it and respond to it. What was the incident that made you all even more aware that you should try and help? The baby dying. Could you just tell me about that?

Well, the baby's mother was in a concentration camp and the baby was only going to see her mother one hour every day and she just died. You might just ask Prolat about that. I know the history of it, we've gone over it before but what was it that prompted the two of you to really move and start taking action? Well, when we heard about the baby, he died. We thought it wasn't fair, you know. We weren't allowed to see our mothers or anything.

So, I understand why we thought that if we wrote the govachov and if we wrote a song for the world, it might help him a little bit. So you could relate because it was someone young, you could sort of relate to the situation, maybe more than you could to a little doll. Do you think it will really do any good this song? Hopefully. I really like it too. Why do you think it might do some good?

Because music is a wonderful way of telling everyone because it's something they can sing along to also. It's something that they can think of. So who are you aiming the record at? The world. What about? And Mr.

Govachov. Yeah. Is it the end of the cape? Yeah. That's pretty well, we'll just do a couple more closing questions and then you can go and sing again. Any other main point that you want to make that hasn't come out?

Any key element or anything? Okay. So is this being kind of a bit of an adventure, putting a record down and all of that? I mean are you taking it seriously? I am. It's a very serious thing.

I've been through all the high positions. Are you having fun along the way do you think? Yeah. So what are you hoping in the long run will happen after the release of this record? It will bring more people will know about what's happening. Or asking everyone to write to Mr.

Govachov. Or to give this little presentation to help read the Soviet Christians. And everyone else has been persecuted over there. Why do you think they're being treated that way? Well in a major Russian newspaper they sent off three threats to Russian lifestyle. One of them was Western pop, Western pop music, Western culture.

And the third one was Hare Krishna. How do you feel about that? I feel about that. I think it's funny. If you think maybe in a way this will be good to get people more aware of your religion as well. But people who maybe don't know very much about it might become more aware.

Yes. Like the last one which is in the middle of the front. What do you think it's like? What's the lifestyle do you think they're leading Russia and the Christians compared with the lifestyle that you have here? Well they just try and do what we do but they all have to be undercover. They get found out and they just go straight to jail.

So what do you hope the record will do? Tell the leaders that they should change the rules and let them have their religious beliefs. Do you have something on to that? Yeah sure. It's actually one of the Russian, I think it's one of Russia's rules that they have to be allowed to religion. But you have to be registered.

So when we try to register a religion, when they got that, they went registered and they got refused. So when they went back home, there were two police cars waiting for them. And they got locked up in prison. And they have to register the religion. When they try to register the religion they get put in prison. I don't think it's fair at all.

So you don't think it's just? How would you sum up the way that the Hare Krishna's treated in Russia? Well they're not being treated very nicely. Treated very nicely. Do you think it's right? Do you think it's reasonable or petting?

No. You see they're not being able to follow religion or the choice. I longed on the Hare Krishna's first time to Russia and they had a book fair.