Since the start of the war, state censors and so-called hurrah-patriots have rallied for bans against popular Russian theater, art, and films they deem “pro-Western.”
In a video posted to YouTube this week, the head of Moscow’s department of culture, Aleksandr Kibovsky, declared that“to strengthen Russian traditional, spiritual and moral values” gives Russian authorities the green light to cleanse the country’s cultural scene from all “Western influence.”
Citizens across Russia have already taken measures to avoid the wrath of Russian authorities under the new policy. Earlier this month, the Fathers’ Council—a Russian children’s rights group in Khabarovsk—purchased all copies of, a book about a romantic relationship between two Soviet boys, so they would not end up in Russian homes.of himself tearing the books apart. “I am glad to be a part of saving our youth, our Russian civilization from Western pseudo-values of horror and darkness,” he said, while ripping pages from the book into pieces. “We are not the West, we are a state with a 1,000-year-long history.
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