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"Due to public outrage, the Dostoevsky course at the University of Milan-Bicocca will not be canceled after all," we read, and we could almost breathe a sigh of relief that, well, common sense prevails after all, they will not ritually burn Sin and Repentance because of Putin; except that there would be other news here as well.
Tonight's performance of Shostakovich's operetta "Moscow, Cheryomusky" (which, by the way, deals with the theme of the housing crisis and corruption, so far from glorifying Russia) was canceled at the Augsburg City Theater. a play presented a few weeks ago. By the way, the composer fell out of favor during Stalin's lifetime, twice; he was also forced to do public penance, so he has a routine in this sort of thing.
A little further away, in Dublin, the Royal Moscow Ballet cannot perform Swan Lake.
In addition to the Russian dancers, the troupe, made up of Ukrainians(!), Irish, Poles and Japanese, among others, has been traveling the world together for years in the greatest peace and friendship, and they have no connection whatsoever with the Russian government, not even receiving money from it; nevertheless, the University Theater in Dublin canceled their performance in "solidarity". In light of this, it is almost self-evident that the performances of the Russian state troupe, which was touring there, were also canceled in the United Kingdom - in Northampton, the dancers from Siberia were still able to perform on Friday, but on Saturday they and the audience were told to go home, the Nutcracker was canceled for political reasons.
The bar comes down heavily on the poor play, as Tchaikovsky's work, which is said to be attracted to his own sex, was removed from the program at Christmas in Berlin due to suspicion of racist stereotypes.
In our conservative (i.e. supposedly homophobic) family, which could not stand the Soviet Union as such and the Soviet leadership, and was a direct victim of the Russkies both personally and financially, it was completely natural even during the years of communism that as soon as we were school-aged, we went to see The Nutcracker, let it dance Lenin Prize-winning guest artist in Moscow - but socialized in prosperity outside of the Soviet sphere of interest, Western intellectuals who put up a statue before Marx, who envisioned the "violent overthrow of all social order" before him, are now showing us how to hate the Russian correctly and unreservedly.
For this reason, one of the world's most famous opera singers, Anna Netrebko, will not take the stage for a while: although she publicly condemned the war, referring specifically to the suffering of her Ukrainian friends, according to the Belgian director of the Bavarian State Opera, she distanced herself "not enough" from the aggression, and therefore all future cooperation with the artist will be cut off. , who was already classified as undesirable by the New York Metropolitan, so he prefers to retire.
But at the very last moment, blind skiers with Russian citizenship also had a hard time: they cannot participate in the Paralympics starting today, even as neutral competitors free of any national color. As one German sports leader firmly stated, what is needed now are not legal considerations, but "moral and political decisions".
It is not known how many days earlier there will be peace and how much better it will be for the people of Ukraine that the ballet music of the great Russian classics will not be played in Great Britain, that the celebrated opera diva will no longer be able to open her mouth in the Munich opera house in her life, or that not a single para-skier from Tatarstan with a leg amputee can show himself in Beijing. It is certain, however, that according to Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, discrimination based on nationality, or even political or other opinion, is prohibited in exactly the same way as discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Therefore, no matter how much we condemn the shameful Russian invasion, the ethnic and ideological cleansing raging in concert halls from Vienna to Milan to Rotterdam is unfortunately exactly the opposite of European values, so fearful Hungary, which is the subject of the "seventh article" and is under financial penalty, proves to be more constitutional in this matter.
If only because, according to the Western narrative, Putin has gone mad - from which it would directly follow that we do not force Russians to insult Putin openly, lest they accidentally get into trouble back home. At least it's customary to protect even family members from a psychopath, instead of turning away from them because they were born in the wrong place or married clumsily.
In any case, as long as the members of the sophisticated, glass-gloved Western elite in peaceful concert halls find the only "morally" and "politically" acceptable solution is to erase some people forever under the sign of collective guilt and classify an entire people as pariahs, let's pray hard that steamed-up Eastern leaders in the middle of a war, they should be able to think sanely, in a European manner and under the rule of law.
Author: Francesca Rivafinoli
Source: vasarnap.hu
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