According to The time has the singer Klaus Meine changed the lyrics from “I follow the Moscow, down to Gorky Park, listening to the wind of change” to “Now listen to my heart, it says Ukraine, waiting for the wind to change”.
– I felt that this is not the right time to romanticize Russia and I wanted to take a stand for Ukraine, which we support in this very difficult situation, he says in an interview with Ukrainian news site TSN.
The song “Wind of change” is associated with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 and was written by Klaus Meine after a concert in Moscow, where he was moved by thousands of Russian fans singing along to a German band’s lyrics.
“Wind of change” has been voted the song of the century by German TV channel ZDF’s viewers.