Moscow,- The head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putinsaid today that Russia is a victim of politics from suppression of Russian culture in the West and the compared to what happened during Nazi Germanyat a meeting with junior winners of the Presidential Award for Literature and Art.
“It is enough to mention a phenomenon such as the ‘culture of suppression’. That is, public ostracism, boycotts and even total silence, the forgetting of the obvious facts, of books, of the names of historical and modern public figures, of writers, simply of people who don’t fit into modern patterns,” the Russian president said.
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Putin argued that today the West is trying to suppress “an entire thousand-year-old country, our people.”
“I am talking about the progressive discrimination of everything related to Russia. With the full collusion and sometimes the encouragement of the ruling elites,” he said.
He noted that composers “Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov are being excluded from concert posters; Russian writers and their books are banned.”
“The last time there was such a massive campaign to destroy unwanted literature was by the Nazis in Germany almost 90 years ago,” Putin said.
“It is impossible to imagine something like this in our country, and we are safe largely thanks to our national culture,” he stressed.
