The boycott of Russian culture in the West has degenerated like the sinister Nazi book fires in Hitler’s Germany. Putin is still raising the tone of a country at war in Russia’s rhetoric and lashing out at the retaliation unleashed in Europe and America by the invasion of Ukraine: retaliation that hasn’t spared the world of arts, music and festivals and the in ‘ Eloquence of the leader of the Kremlin, a new chapter in the controversy against the socalled ‘cancel culturè’. With many references to discrimination, which has recently been denounced by Western authors such as the British writer JK Rowling, but was narrowly rejected by those affected as unacceptable exploitation.
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“There is a progressive ghettoization of everything related to Russia, with the full connivance, sometimes incitement, of Western governing elites,” Putin thundered during a meeting in Moscow with representatives of the cultural world. A retaliation that spares no one, he has intensified, not only thinking about what happened to Valeri Gergiev, the famous conductor and deus ex machina of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, who is practically banished halfway around the world since he considered his personal friend. “Even Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich or Rachmaninov will be banned from concert programs he insisted while Russian writers will be targeted and their books banned”. “The last time it happened he then sunk the shot was 90 years ago with the Nazis in Germany and their campaign of unwanted cultural destruction. We remember well the images of the books burned in the squares ».
A more general charge, accompanied by an attack on the dogmas of political correctness attributed to the West. With Rowling’s quote as a victim: “Abandoned after writing children’s books that have sold millions of copies worldwide simply because they are not welcome to fans of gender freedom,” said the Russian President. Words rejected by the sender as a result of an unsolicited and unreliable official defense of the creator of Harry Potter. Rowling, who has recently been the target of repeated protests by LGBT groups for her defense of female biological identity, tweeted that she had no intention of letting Putin play the game; deny that one can act as a defender of culture “who massacres civilians and imprisons or poisons their opponents”. Then, to close the accounts, he quoted Aleksei Navalny, the Tsar’s number one public enemy at home. And he added a hashtag that unequivocally condemned the invasion of Moscow: “#IStandWithUkraine”, I am for Ukraine.
Criticism of the Western culture of annulment is probably not best leveled by those who currently slaughter civilians for the crime of resistance or imprison and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine https://t.co/aNItgc5aiW
JK Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2022