Popmusic as weapons: Lithuania is offered to introduce a moratorium on Russian culture

During the TV Forum discussion program on the National Television LRT, the head of the department stated that he liked the idea of ​​introducing mental quarantine for Russian culture and abandoning some works. During the TV show, guests discussed the introduction of censorship on Russian artefacts and answered whether they were weapons, like Russian energy.

The guests of the studio emphasized the words of the Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenko, who in an interview with The Guardian claimed that the Russian Federation deliberately uses culture as weapons. According to him, Russia emphasizes that its culture is indispensable and high, thereby moving and spreading the ideology of the greatness of the Russian people.

Commenting on the words of Ukrainian colleague, Kair C stressed that Tkachenko offers not the destruction of books or musical records, but rather a deliberate pause for Russian culture. At the same time, more claims against the Lithuanian minister not to classical works, but representatives of Russian populture. "Russia consciously uses culture as weapons, in important days for the Lithuanian state, the days of our performers, mostly representatives of populture.

I like the idea of ​​introducing a mental quarantine for Russian culture, to give up works that had previously seemed acceptable to us," Kairis said. At the same time, the minister stressed that the state cannot play the role of censor in this matter and apply authoritarian measures to this. In his opinion, the conscious choice of everyone should be appealed. Some participants of the show denied the minister, noting that national labels should not be hung on events in Ukraine.

In particular, Vydyshkas's opera tenor said that "evil has no nationality. " He believes that we should pay attention to how Western European countries treat Russian culture and whether they are allowed to include Russian authors who are considered classical in their concert repertoires. The tenor also raised the question of what purpose it is prosecuted in the ban on Russian culture. All participants of the show agreed that the most important thing is the personal choice and conscience of man.