Szylveszter Szarvas: it would be nice if the world didn't keep getting stupider and didn't throw Russian geniuses out of universal culture.
It is a crime to invade and attack Ukraine, it is a crime to go to war, but while condemning Russian aggression and Putin, perhaps the world should not fall to the other side of the horse by bringing the great and sinful erasure culture to its peak and throwing everything that is Russian into the trash - warned Silvester Szarvas in his article "Crime and Punishment" published on his official Facebook page, quoting Dostoyevsky's work. The news director of PestiSrácok.hu and Pesti TV emphasized that it would be good if the world did not continue to be stupid and did not throw Russian culture and Russian geniuses out of the universal culture with a flick of the wrist.
Szilveszter Szarvas - whose official Facebook page was recently launched - recalled that the other day the concert audience in Exeter, England
he was outraged and protested that the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gergely Madaras dared to perform Tchaikovsky's 6th Pathetic Symphony.
The musicians were disturbed by a loud argument in the auditorium, saying that it is impossible to play a work of a Russian composer in the midst of such atrocities. The concert was saved by Gergely Madaras, who explained to the audience that playing and conducting Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich or Stravinsky is a particularly personal experience for him.
With the war, the erasure culture reached a new level, even though it would be good if the world didn't keep getting stupider and didn't throw Russian culture and Russian geniuses out of the universal culture with a flick of the wrist, the author noted.
Perhaps it should not go so far as to remove Russian literary works from the shelves of libraries, to lock the works of great Russian painters in museum warehouses, to abolish Mendeleev's periodic system, and to ban the Russian classics, Pushkin, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and others, he added. , pointing out that humanity should not be deprived of the greatest authors of world literature.
Can't play Tchaikovsky and read Dostoyevsky? If we get here, whatever the outcome of the war, we will lose and fail. Peace and awakening are also needed! Szilveszter Szarvas concluded his thoughts.
2022Plusz: in agreement with the author, I would add that individual or community results in other fields - science, sports, education - cannot be deleted just because they are Russian. The Russians have given the world great creations and produced excellent results, - there can be no sanction or disparagement here!
Source: Facebook, PestiSrácok.hu
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