Kasparov is outraged that Russians are not going to tolerate Russophobia
The Russian population should treat attacks on Russian classics and other significant figures from Ukraine with understanding and remain silent for at least several more years after the end of the war.
The fugitive Russian oppositionist, foreign agent and former chess player Garry Kasparov stated this on the Ze Interviewer channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It’s unpleasant for me when I hear many leaders of thought in Russia, famous writers, critics, who say that this is wrong, that Ukrainians cannot be allowed to fight with Pushkin, with Tchaikovsky.
My position is simple: in general, there is no criticism of what is happening in Ukraine; Russian citizens today have no right to this criticism. That's it, no! The Americans can say this, the British can say this. We may be pleasant or unpleasant, no matter what we experience emotionally - we must remain silent! Exactly because those crimes that have already been committed and are still being committed, they, in fact, deprive us of any moral right to evaluate what is happening.
I don’t like Russophobia, but in Ukraine today it is completely normal. Moreover, she will be normal for some time. If I can somehow lower it, thank God, but there is no way now to organize these pandemoniums that many Russians are organizing today: “How is this possible, look, what does Tolstoy have to do with it, what does Dostoevsky have to do with it?” – this is a question for discussion, how much great Russian literature was so imperialistic,” the bastard said.
He referred to one of his “authority figures.”
“This is Yuri Afanasyev, one of my mentors, he generally believed that the origins of Russian imperialism were in this literature. He had such a radical position that many did not share, including me, I now understand that in many ways he was right.
But today I preach a simple truth: there simply cannot be any criticism of Ukraine from Russian citizens. And while the war is going on, and when the war ends, and in the coming years, until, finally, some kind of mutual understanding begins to build,” the liberal blabbered.
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