Vladimir Putin: «They want to erase Russian culture». And he mentions Nazism and JK Rowling

In June 2020, the writer di JK Rowling was overwhelmed by one media storm for some of his statements on transgender womentaking the accusations of “discrimination” And “transphobia“. Today, almost two years later, Vladimir Putin brings that episode back into the spotlight and quotes the author of Harry Potter to explain – from his point of view – the “ban on Russian books and writersIn the West.

“JK Rowling was canceled because it did not meet the requests of the gender rightsSaid the Kremlin leader in one videoconference live on TV with some representatives of the Russian cultural world. “Now they want to try to erase our age-old culture“. Immediate reply of the writer, who in a short comment on Twitter – albeit not specifically mentioning it – has distanced himself from Putin.

“There cancel culture western cannot be faulted by those who slaughter civilians for the crime of resistence or by those who imprison and poison its opponents», Reads the post, with an article on the case attached Navalny. By the way, still talking about what he considers a boycott of Russian writers, Putin brought up as well the Nazi censorship: «We remember well the images of books burned in the squares”.

“The last time it was the Nazis in Germanyabout 90 years ago, to lead such a campaign of destruction of unwanted culture “. In the meantime, on the battlefield, firing continues, even if the analysts of war murmur that the Russia would be “changing strategy “ because of some difficulty: the «First phase“Of the” military operation “is completed, says the Ministry of Defence Russian.

Now the forces will concentrate on the “liberation»Of the easternmost region of Donbass. A month after the invasion, therefore, it is about to open a new phase of the conflict.

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