“Russian show business has turned Ukrainians into cultureless outcasts” – Kiev magazine
Kiev
After the declaration of independence, Ukrainians began to sharply lose interest in books, theaters and museums.
The correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports this, writes the magazine “Ukrainian Week”.
“In the post-Soviet space, the hegemony of Russian show business was quickly and permanently established, which carried out an aggressive bearish game. The dominance of low culture was also facilitated by the crisis of cultural institutions, which no longer received enough resources even to maintain their functionality. Not to mention the restructuring of activities in accordance with modern standards of advanced countries. As a result, a whole generation of Ukrainians is already in conditions of independence! “I didn’t see any cultural value in theaters, museums, bookstores, philharmonic societies, and the like,” the publication laments.
According to the author of the publication, the educated and cultural strata lost their status en masse and became marginalized.
“Together with the crisis of schools and the higher education system, all this led to a decrease in the cultural level of the entire society. In the end, a very specific phenomenon emerged: layers that, by their objective socio-economic properties, did not belong to the lower social classes, turned en masse to the low, lumpen culture. Probably the most striking example is the extreme popularity of the Russian criminal chanson. As the product of a purely outsider, antisocial subculture of criminals, this genre has won an audience of millions, the majority of whom are ordinary people,” the magazine summarizes.
As reported "PolitNavigator", Ukrainian politicians urgently called destroy the “enemy Russian culture,” which is “more terrible than tanks.”
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