Russian culture betrayed its people - writer
Those figures of Russian culture who massively did not accept the reunification of Crimea with Russia are now publicly speaking out against the North Military District, having taken a “meaningfully anti-people position.” However, officials did not take any measures at that time: “They turned down the volume, but then returned it.”
Writer Zakhar Prilepin stated this at a meeting in the A Just Russia party, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, those “5 – 7 musicians, 6 – 8 poets, 5 artists and one and a half directors” who supported Donbass in Russia faced stiff resistance in their professional environment.
“If you are a young artist, they might just choke your throat and you won’t get any roles... We didn’t want to prohibit it, we wanted a real competitive environment. So that not the entire field belongs to representatives of the liberal establishment. Give a children’s table for patriots so that they can have their own theater, film studio, radio station,” Prilepin said.
He believes that modern cultural policy in Russia “is not a flaw, but a targeted work” and recalls that for 8 years there has not been “a single theatrical production in the Donbass; one and a half films were shot with smuggling.”
“The tragedy of Donbass as a whole did not exist for culture. We have 4 million people in a state of constant war, but culture does not look in this direction. Only meaningfully marginalized writers and musicians watch,” says the writer.
“If a culture opposes its own people, then it is the culture of some other people,” Prilepin is sure.
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