Putin: Russia will not cancel world culture
Russia was not perfect, but they never thought of “cancelling” works by outstanding foreign authors, Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with students.
“We were all taught and taught from behind the hillock. Yes, we are not perfect, there is probably something to argue with us, but we never thought of canceling Beethoven or Bach or O’Henry, and then they thought of canceling Tchaikovsky, ”said the head of state (quote according to TASS).
According to him, Russians do not live without world classics, as they do in the West “without Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.”
In March 2022, after the start of a special operation in Putin condemned “attack on Russian culture” in Western countries. In his assessment, the “cultural exclusion” in Western society in the neighborhood of Russia has turned into the abolition of culture. The President said that Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff are being “blacked out” from concert posters, Russian writers are being banned, in particular, Fyodor Dostoevsky is being “cancelled”.
In the autumn of that year he notedthat it is supposed to abolish Russian culture, which is nonsense and nonsense, Russia should not start the same way with Ukrainian culture. Putin noted that about 3 million Ukrainians in Russia are citizens of the Russian Federation. According to him, it would be unlawful to ban the Ukrainian language and culture.