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Did Putin really just try to defend his country by comparing criticism of Russia to Rowling being under fire for her attacks on 'cancel culture'?
Actor and director of Oleg Tabakov Theatre Vladimir Mashkov is a rabid Z patriot who gave hated-filled speeches at the rally-concert on Luzhniki Stadium, on Red Square and in Donbas. He placed the largest zwastika on the facade of his theatre in Moscow, the only such egregious act of support for war in Ukraine from a private citizen. Other zwastikas in Moscow are placed on the facades of government and municipal buildings.
No other person has done so much for canceling Russian culture as Putin.
It is reflected in the rapid pace of disappearance of a large number of directors, stage designers, artists, playwrights in Russia who either immigrated in protest of war, or are being driven out because they refuse to be spokespersons for the fascist ideology.
Moscow organization "United Exhibition Hall" deals with contemporary art. They are obligated to transfer lists of artists whose works are going to be exhibited in the museums for the review of the special officials in the Department of Culture of Moscow to weed out those who have made anti-war statements.
In classical music, many have been denied performing in the Great Hall of the Conservatory and in the Tchaikovsky Hall.
In contemporary music where artists have been more outspoken due to the more outgoing nature of their relations with the fans, the situation is much worse.
Schools, universities discos and even restaurants are prohibited from putting on the music from the long list of banned artists, which competes with the similar list compiled during the Soviet era.
Rappers Morgenstern, Noize MC, Oximoron are banned from giving concerts in Russia. And so are popular pop band Nogu Svelo, rock stars Yuri Shevchuk and DDT; Mashina Vremeni and Boris Gremendchekov and his band Acvrium are banned again same as they were during the communist era.
There are calls to strip Valery Miladze of his citizenship because he was overheard saying “Slava Ukraine” during his concert in Dubai.
Putin’s Russian culture canceling have ended careers of the rock band B-2, Zemphira, Vera Brezhneva, Svetlana Loboda, pop superstar Alla Pugacheva and many others.
Bookstores in Moscow were requested to hide books by opposition-minded authors from their shelves.
UK-based author Akunin of bestselling crime fiction books about the adventure of Erast Mandarin written in the manner of French historical mystery novels have been taken off the shelves of the bookstores due to him speaking critically about the regime and war.
Other banned writers are Natalya Baranova, Dmitry Bykov, Victor Vakhshtein, Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of the super-popular Metro 2033 novels, Mikhail Zygar, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Andrei Makarevich, Alexander Nevzorov, Leonid Parfenov, Evgeny Ponasenkov, another bestselling writer Ludmila Ulitskaya, Ekaterina Shulman.
Prince Lemon introduces a new tax on precipitation.
Soviet cartoon Cipollino is banned in Russia.
Putin even canceled Soviet cartoon Cipollino, the Onion Boy because in it vegetables fight the unjust treatment of fruit royalty.
All the characters in the cartoon look suspiciously like they were drawn from the real persons in the Kremlin leadership, and the grand finale in the cartoon seems to foreshadow the forthcoming revolution in Putin’s Russia.
Vladimir Putin, Prince Lemon in Cipollino, the most cowardly supreme leader in Russian history and his clique of thieves and KGB henchmen, is terrified that the cartoon would serve as a playbook to overthrow them.
