Solodukha Described How He “pulled A Fast One” In An Ad That Angered Lukashenko
- 16.10.2026, 8:32
The singer called it a "triumph."
The singer who performed the song “Kruti Gusya” in a commercial for the Maxline betting company says he didn’t know the ad would be promoting a betting company. Alexander Solodukha told the hosts of the podcast “HATA HAUS”.
According to the artist, he thought Maxline was just a regular company and had no idea it operated in the gambling industry. He was only familiar with the soccer club of the same name, which had moved up from the first division to the top division and immediately took first place, and assumed that they would be the ones being advertised.
“I thought it was just some ordinary company. I knew there was a [football club of the same name] that had moved up from the first division to the top division—and immediately took first place. I figured we’d be advertising them,” Solodukha said.
According to the performer, editing the video took a long time. When he was shown the finished version, he was surprised: he hadn’t expected them to use artificial intelligence in the video featuring him.
“And when they sent [the final video], of course, I was stunned, too. That goose—and there I am flying out from somewhere, crashing into a wall, hitting it, falling, a tooth flies out—and I’m flying off somewhere after that tooth,” the singer recounted the video’s plot somewhat confusedly.
Solodukha called the video with the chorus “Spin, Spin the Goose” an advertising triumph: it caught the attention of Alexander Lukashenko. At a meeting in Minsk on September 10 the dictator criticized the abundance of ads for betting companies in Belarus.
“What do you call them: ‘spin the goose’—you’ve hung these ads everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where it seems [as if] my own family is involved in this. My family… They’re harassing me every single day. They’re hounding me to get my attention on this,” Lukashenko said. “Look at what’s going on in the country: everyone here is ‘spinning the goose.’ Take note, Dmitry Nikolaevich (Lukashenko’s chief of staff Dmitry Krutoy. — Ed.), take this seriously.”
Solodukha’s fee for the shoot was transferred via bank transfer. He sees nothing objectionable in this kind of advertising.
“Although my sons, my close circle, and even my drivers have already told me, ‘Oh, things are going to get heated.’ It turns out that there are casino ads, and it seems like a lot of people are playing there and losing big money—fortunes and even apartments. It’s every person’s right to gamble or not to gamble—that’s logical, right? I don’t gamble, and my sons don’t either,” Solodukha added.