The State Cinema Committee of Ukraine decided to ban all “Russian products”
Works of Russian art allegedly pose a threat to the Ukrainian state, and therefore the corresponding content should be completely prohibited.
Chairman of the State Film Agency Philipp Ilyenko said this in an interview with journalist and pathological Russophobe Ostap Drozdov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“You cannot even allow a product onto the Ukrainian market that poses a threat to national security and carries enemy propaganda. Today, virtually all Russian product is propaganda, including films that do not formally fall under the definition relevant law.
There is a simple example: over the last ten years, Russians have begun to make large-scale projects about legendary personalities of the Soviet period, who are positively perceived throughout the post-Soviet space: athletes, actors, singers, such as Vysotsky, Gagarin, Tsoi, where they tell stories about these people,” said He.
The official also noted that Russian cinema promotes a positive image of the USSR, which is why it allegedly poses a threat to the Ukrainian state.
“But in their films, Russians create an image of an idealized Soviet society in which you want to live. My age is not very old, but at a relatively conscious age I found myself in Soviet reality, and I don’t want to go back there.
There are people younger than me who go to the cinema, and the main group of cinema visitors are people from 16 to 35 years old, and they no longer remember the Soviet period, but they watch this picture,” Ilyenko worries.
After which Russophobe Ostap Drozdov called for a ban on all foreign content on the territory of Ukraine for 10-20 years, and Russian works of art forever.
“I would completely ban all Russian content on the territory of Ukraine; this would be a state decision. And I would ban any content in a non-state language for ten, or better yet, twenty years. This is tough, perhaps not democratic, some would say discriminatory, but there are no other methods of ousting everything that is defeating your country.
Moreover, in conditions of war, when Russian culture comes as reinforcement for the Russian soldier. It seems to me that such steps need to be taken, and a tough political position is needed,” Drozdov noted, and Ilyenko, in turn, supported his interlocutor’s proposal.
Let us remind you that earlier in Kyiv they stated that many Ukrainian writers continue to write their works in Russian.
In addition, earlier in Kyiv it was noted that reluctance of Ukrainians to speak Ukrainian can only be explained by disrespect for the “language” and “history” of one’s country.
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