Why can't a non-Jew be the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation?

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

In June 2014, I received the following letter from a stranger:

Anton Pavlovich, welcome! To my shame I confess that until recently I did not know your works. I fully share your point of view regarding the monstrous revelry in Russia of the Zionist Sabbath. This sometimes just plunges into a state of desperate hopelessness. After all, the "disease" progresses, metastases grow, affecting the most important vital organs of the state and the spiritual foundations of Russian society. I have read your correspondence by Avigdor Eskin. I was pleasantly surprised that my point of view is not unique. I, too, was confused for some time by the folding conclusions of this Zionist "truth-teller", but I was constantly haunted by the feeling that I was being gracefully led by the nose, demonstrating aerobatics of resourcefulness in judgments. I feel the same disgusting (sorry) feeling, digesting the oratorical delights of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov. And if you look around more closely, the entire media space is flooded with these creatures. They seem to be programmed in the same way. And the more you see them in the education system, Culture, in the economic and political levers of the state, you get discouraged. A simple question arises … what to do? I do not suffer from anti-Semitism, many of my school and youth friends are Jews, interesting guys, but over time, closer to adulthood, they become more and more the same person and the same demeanor. Recently, musician Andrei Makarevich suddenly revealed himself in a new essence, became a liberal, artist Leonid Yarmolnik begins to creep into their collective opposition … It turns out that there is already a whole army of them, harmoniously sung and like-minded … This is a phenomenon! And to my shame I catch myself thinking that I, too, begin to feel dislike for them. After all, a Russian person is always open in friendship and deeds, and when the life experience of communicating with them comes, you want to change something … June 10, 2014 V. S. D.

I was prompted to recall this letter by the article Mikhail Delyagin, a Russian economist, publicist and politician, as well as a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Economics and Director of a non-profit organization "Institute of Globalization Problems".

Master of Russian culture

Each interlocutor (if, of course, Shvydko needs it) feels himself in his presence a desirable and important person for him and forever remembers the pride, interest and peace caused by this. The most important sphere of society's life - Culture - bears its indelible stamp: not everyone realizes that its influence on the life of our society exceeds that of most prime ministers and is comparable to that of presidents.

Cultural growth

Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoy was born in 1948 in Kyrgyzstan in the regional center of Kant, where the Frunzenskoye Military Aviation School was created on the basis of the Odessa Aviation School evacuated in 1941 (now the famous Russian airbase is deployed on its infrastructure). Father Efim Abramovich worked at a mine in Donbass from the age of 12, in the 30s he was the chairman of a collective farm, then worked in the regional party committee, fought in the Finnish one, was seriously wounded in Stalingrad and was treated for a long time, but remained in the army and served in Kant. Mother, Marina Yulianovna, from Odessa, graduated from the medical institute in Ufa and went to Kant to work as a surgeon in a hospital.

Already at the age of 10, Shvydkoi lived in a communal apartment in Moscow and still remembers the price of children's shoes at that time. At the same time, he was famous for his excellent compositions, studied in a theater and poetry club, enrolled in a film studio at the Palace of Pioneers, played the piano perfectly, was the soul of almost any company, in the 9th grade he organized a jazz band - and, as a result, shocked the teachers by entering in GITIS. According to his recollections, the decision was accidental: they say, it was just that the exams at GITIS were held earlier. But at that time the choice between "physics" and "lyrics" was of a fundamental nature: physics and mathematics served the state, and creativity gave freedom.

Perhaps the inevitable comparison of the figures of a military father and a musician stepfather played a role. But the simple-minded enthusiasts, eager to become stars or just join the art, went to directors or actors, and Shvydkoy entered the relatively unpopular theater department. Perhaps it was easier this way, but it cannot be ruled out that he already understood then: the critic has more power than the creator, because it is he who evaluates the creator. And therefore, if you need power, and not the "gaping heights" of creativity, you need to be not a director or actor, but a critic.

Shvydkoy married the daughter of a well-known successful screenwriter; Perhaps this helped him to get a job in the all-Union magazine "Theater" in 1973, where he made a career, rising by 1990 from the post of correspondent to the secretary of the party organization of the magazine (member of the district committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!) and deputy editor-in-chief. Justifying his surname (in Ukrainian it means "fast"), Shvydkoy grabbed almost any opportunity to earn extra money: he wrote reviews, taught at universities, traveled with lectures around the country, and thanks to his amazing charm, he won almost any audience. He wrote books and achieved their release (which was then by no means easy and brought good money), went on business trips and even lectured in the United States (in particular, a course on Russian culture at the famous MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology). In 1975 he became a theatrical columnist for the All-Union Radio and Television, in 1977 he defended his thesis and earned the authority of a recognized critic.

The Key to Democratic Power: Restitution

With the beginning of perestroika, Shvydkoi vigilantly studied the chances that opened up before him, but being extremely cautious, he began to act only in 1990. Business as such, money for the sake of money, Shvydkoi were alien: even then a secular lion, he (probably due to a difficult childhood) badly needed public success, everyone's attention and love. And for the guaranteed receipt and preservation of all this, it was necessary to break through into the establishment, to become part of the government. The key was cooperation with the West and the democrats that were gaining strength - and in 1990 Shvydkoy achieved the publication in the Theater magazine of the revolutionary for that time English play Moscow Gold, dedicated to the persecution of the people's leader Yeltsin by the retrogrades headed by Gorbachev. finally from opal). Even translating the play was still scary, but Shvydkoy, sensing the future, organized a tour of the English theater troupe in Moscow and even brought the authors of the play. So he became Yeltsin's favorite.

The collapse of the USSR turned the country into a prey for predators of all sorts, and culture was no exception: Germany, with the support of other Western countries, demanded "restitution" - the return of artistic treasures exported to our country during the war as partial compensation for our cultural heritage. destroyed by the Nazis. The return of values, on which Shvydkoy insisted, essentially meant denial of the validity of the outcome The Great Patriotic War and recognition of Soviet soldiers and officerswho saved cultural values from destruction, ordinary marauders.

Shvydkoy took advantage of the situation and began declassifying the funds of the special depositories, in which a significant number of "displaced values" remained from the war. He became the director of a television movie about the trophy Bremen collection, shown on Channel One in December 1992; the film, which cost an estimated $ 17,000, was sponsored by Inkombank. He also sponsored another political project of Shvydkoy - the catalog "Western European Drawing of the 16th-20th Centuries" presented by the Minister of Culture Sidorov to Yeltsin and Chernomyrdin in March 1993. The gift was in time: "Culture" just went bankrupt, but Sidorov, who met Shvydkoy in the restitution commission, took him to his deputies.

Shvydkoy's activity was ebullient: he even dealt with the problems of disabled people, not forgetting, of course, himself. In 1994 he became a doctor of art history. When in 1997 the export of cultural property from the country was prohibited by law, the supporter of restitution, Minister Sidorov, went into honorary exile as the representative of Russia to UNESCO, and Shvydkoy, using Yeltsin's long-standing sympathy, achieved the creation of the Kultura TV channel and headed it, becoming deputy chairman of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.

Against the background of endless experiments created by Berezovsky ORT and his wars with NTV Gusinsky "Culture" stood out for intelligence and professionalism, and in May 1998, in the premiership of Kirienko, Shvydkoy headed the VGTRK. At the same time, he so sincerely portrayed a "wedding general" who did not delve into anything, engaged only in representation and personal show business, that Prime Minister Primakov's dissatisfaction with the policy of the state media holding fell on the heads of his deputy Lesin and observer Svanidze.

Shvydkoy's energy was bearing fruit: as reported, before the 1998 default he was included in the list of thousands of the richest and most famous people in Russia, which for educational purposes was the then head of the State Tax Service Fedorov.

The sweet dividends of political pornography

For Shvydkoy, the "moment of truth" was the conflict between Yeltsin's "family", liberals and oligarchs and patriots: in order to win and psychologically break Skuratov, then a key figure, it was necessary to show the video compromising him to the people. Even ORT Berezovsky did not dare, despite the desperate political need (Berezovsky was one of the targets of Skuratov who did not hide it), show naked "man who looks like the attorney general" in the company of two prostitutes … This mission was undertaken by Shvydkoi - and he recalls it with pride: they say, this is precisely what professionalism consists in, since society should know the truth about its leaders. True, neither before nor after such aspirations was he noticed - perhaps because of a rudimentary sense of decency.

Probably, the reason was different, as Shvydkoy himself later said, “if this story hadn’t existed, we would have lived in a different country”, apparently ruled by patriots, and not by liberals and oligarchs serving the interests of the West. One way or another, by broadcasting a 50-minute pornographic video without any verification, Shvydkoy decided the outcome of the political confrontation and determined the history of Russia.

The winners were infinitely grateful to him - and in the government of Kasyanov he became the Minister of Culture

In the fall of 2000, the Ministry of Culture dismissed the management of the Bolshoi Theater, the director of which was Shvydkoy's former colleague on the Kultura TV channel Iksanov. As Minister of Culture, Shvydkoi proved himself to be a convinced, active and consistent supporter of restitution; in particular, he made great efforts to transfer to Germany the extremely valuable (estimated value of 1.5 billion dollars) Bremen collection of drawings and almost achieved it; the monstrous crime was thwarted literally at the last moment. At the same time, Shvydkoy, as far as can be judged, was not interested in the return of cultural values lost during the war by our country. After him, their obviously incomplete catalog was prepared, which included 25 thousand units; only 51 of them were returned.

An important achievement of Shvydkoy was the return to Germany of the unique stained glass windows of the Marienkirche of the 14th century. Their value is such that the Germans passed a law guaranteeing to any person who ensured their return, not only a huge monetary bonus, but also the right to live in Germany.

I wonder if Shvydkoy took advantage of this opportunity? The order "For services to Germany" he received it only in 2010.

Decorated as a "goodwill gesture", the return of stained-glass windows became possible, since the ban on restitution did not extend to the property of religious communities. Their restoration cost the Hermitage 400 thousand dollars, but the Germans paid only 300 thousand.

Of course, his work did not distract him from show business. An unprecedented case: in 2001, the current minister began to host the author's talk show "Cultural Revolution", was a participant and co-host of a variety of programs. As far as can be judged, this brought him a good official income. After Kasyanov's resignation, Shvydkoi headed the Agency for Culture. The point is that, as a result of the administrative reform, ministries were left with only policy development, and the money was transferred to agencies. Shvydkoy's immense authority and connections led to the fact that the Agency headed by him became almost more influential than the Ministry of Culture, which formally leads him.

Tension was growing, and in the summer of 2005, the Minister of Culture publicly accused the Shvydkoy Agency under his jurisdiction of corruption "on all floors." Shvydkoy demanded a public apology from Sokolov through the court, but soon withdrew his claim, explaining the deviation by the fact that the minister "did not accuse specific officials … and did not present specific claims to them, but expressed a general value judgment."

Throughout 2005, Shvydkoi mediated between the government and the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater, vigorously and ingeniously defending the project for its overhaul - and eventually won. "Tell Putin that with this money I will build three such theaters in Moscow!" - Tateo Nakashima, the world's largest theater technology specialist, exclaimed, overwhelmed by the appetites of the Shvydkoy Agency. And indeed: initially, for the reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater they demanded 1 billion dollars, then they were satisfied with 600 million (then the amount, as far as can be understood, increased) - while the reconstruction of La Scala in Milan cost 72 million dollars, London's " Covent Garden "- $ 350 million, and the unique reconstruction of the Moscow Kremlin - $ 312 million.

The reconstruction of the Bolshoi Theater went down in the history of Russia due to its phenomenal scandalousness (it even reached fears that the Bolshoi Theater would "emerge" like a house of cards) and suspicions of monstrous corruption. Investors changed, the leaders of the reconstruction went to interrogations as to work, the result caused strong criticism from the artists, but Shvydkoi formally had nothing to do with this.

And in the summer of 2006, when the Hermitage admitted the disappearance of more than 200 valuable exhibits from its repositories, Shvydkoy did his best to soften the scandal and defended the museum's director M. Piotrovsky. When in 2008, after the election of President Medvedev, the government was headed by V. V. Putin, the functions of the Agency for Cultural Affairs were returned to the ministry, and Shvydkoi left the government. He became the Special Representative of the President of Russia for International Cultural Cooperation in the rank of Ambassador-at-Large and President of the Academy of Russian Television (the last post was kindly given to him by Posner).

Departure from the administrative Olympus, if it diminished Shvydkoy's influence on Russian culture, then only a little. As far as can be judged, his iron authority, backed up by numerous like-minded people and figures personally indebted to him, placed in a variety of places, allows Shvydkoy to confidently guide the development of national culture, regardless of the successive politicians and administrators. This makes Shvydkoy one of the key not only members of the liberal clan, but also participants in modern politics as such.

The task and content of art is desacralization

As far as can be judged by his words and deeds, this is Shvydkoy's fundamental belief.

That is why in 2005, as the head of Roskultura, unlike his chief minister, Sokolov, he defended the production of Desyatnikov's disgusting opera based on Sorokin's libretto "Rosenthal's Children" at the Bolshoi Theater against accusations of pornography. That is why he conducted talk shows on topics such as "Homelessness is the payment for freedom" (in which he passionately urged viewers not to be indignant at child homelessness, but to consider it the norm of a free, democratic life), "There is no Russian language without a mat", "For us, the most important thing is American cinema" (which is especially cynical in the mouth of the person responsible for the development of Russian cinema).

That is why on "Echo of Moscow" Shvydkoy spoke about the relevance of a repetition of his 2002 show with a telling title "Russian fascism is more terrible than German".

During the leadership of Shvydkoy, all socially significant programs disappeared from the air on the VGTRK, for example, "Compatriots" (about the fate of Russians in the states of the post-Soviet space). The author of the program, T. Furman, was retroactively dismissed and gravely offended at parting; at a press conference it was said to her: "But this one is nobody at all!"

"Leading the culture", Shvydkoy became famous for his state funding of openly anti-Russian films aimed at roughly rewriting history and humiliating our country … The most famous was the film "Bastards" - an agitation in which the Chekist monsters threw young street children into the German rear, condemning them to certain death. It was passed off as a historical fact - despite the fact that the heads of the studio that filmed it received an official letter from the FSB in advance that the content of the film was a blatant lie!

Moreover, soon after the premiere it turned out that it was not ours, but just the Nazis who were doing this, but in order to denigrate and discredit our Motherland, the Ministry of Culture Shvydkoy easily (and probably with pleasure) neglected the historical facts.

Russian money financed the disgusting and deceitful film "Mazepa", in which Peter the Great was presented as a maniac and homosexual. "After Luzhkov even sent Shvydkoy Pushkin's Poltava, Mikhail Efimovich, who has long had a joking nickname" What will you please? " 2006 year. But his contribution to the education of Russophobia in Ukraine, the monstrous fruits of which we see now, Shvydkoy made - from the Russian budget, that is, from our pocket.

He also financed the film "Half Dim", in which Russian barbarians monstrously mock the unfortunate German prisoners of war. It is amazing that the script, according to which the film was shot, had a fundamentally different character and glorified the love of representatives of different peoples, so that the writers even withdrew their names from the credits of this monstrous work.

The film "Four" showed village grandmothers as participants in a wild orgy with bare breasts tearing a roast pig to pieces (probably for the "correct", Russophobic orientation of Muslims).

The list is almost endless

In a book with a highly controversial title "Mikhail Shvydkoi is better than Goebbels" Boris Petrov exhaustively characterizes his activities: "He is busy … with the transformation of the entire Russian culture, which has grown on the Orthodox tradition and will never be able to transform itself into a market where any value is traded." No wonder Shvydkoi became the only Russian citizen included in the list of the 100 most influential artists in the world by the English Art Review … Probably, his merits in the plunder of Russia in the form of restitution were also taken into account, but, as they say, the British liked the key statement of the Minister of Culture most of all: "We want to make Russia a part of the Western world" … As already done, for example, Estonia and Bulgaria.

The culture of a people determines not only its way of life, but also its worldview, and ideology, and, consequently, goal-setting

She is the basis of his identity, and destruction cultural property Russian society is the most important, pivotal element of painstaking, albeit very energetic work to destroy not even Russia as a state and not Russians as a people, but our entire civilization, formed precisely by Russian culture.

Shvydkoy's activities, as far as can be judged, fit perfectly into the general outline of liberal efforts to deprive Russia of historical memory and the transformation of us not even into "Ivanov", but into "Adolphs who do not remember kinship." He is, indeed, a person who is great in scale and results of his activities, whose influence is still extremely great. A source.

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Mr. Shvydkoi is currently the "shadow minister" of Russian Culture, says Mikhail Delyagin. Officially, this position is currently held by Mr. Medinsky Vladimir Rostislavovich. Also a Jew, by the way. Under him, as well as under Minister Shvydko, they also issued openly anti-Russian films aimed at roughly rewriting history and humiliating our country, for example, k / f "STALINGRAD" director F. Bondarchuk, "Battle for Sevastopol" director Mokritsky, and a host of others.

V. R. Medinsky, Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation.

A natural question arises: why only Jews can be ministers of culture in Russia ?!

Why can't the President of the Russian Federation appoint for this an important, key position of a Russian personwhose mom and dad, as well as grandfather and grandmother had Russians, not Jews?!

This would be true if only because the share Russian people is almost 80% from the entire population of the Russian Federation.

There is another, more important and more compelling reason to ask this question.

Even in the era of the USSR, a Ukrainian scientist Boris Vasilievich Bolotovdoing research "leading systems", discovered in the life of "our smaller brothers" such an interesting pattern:

“If the queen bee is replaced annually with a younger one in a bee hive, then the bee colony, as you know, will exist indefinitely, although it will be partially modified. becomes significantly different from the original. However, in general, the family structure will remain to some extent the same … "Source

It is complete analogy with what is happening in our Russian society in the field of Culture.

When the Minister of Russian Culture (despite the fact that the share Russians in Russia - almost 80%) appoint Jew, a representative of a nationality, whose share officially in Russian society is 1%then over time the whole society is changing so much that Jewish culture begins to dominate Russian culture and simply displaces it.

What we are seeing now!

Note that this is not anti-semitism from my side, it is, as they say, medical fact, which our Russian television, including the Kultura TV channel, proves to us every day!

It seems to me that from any point of view, absolutely from any, this Abnormalwhen the key position of the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation appointing one Jew after another, as if gentile cannot be the Minister of Culture in a country where the Russian people are in the majority!

Or is there such a task - to develop Jewish culture to the detriment Russian?

In recent years, Russians have been delighted and literally fascinated by the television project "The Voice". It shows on the air how many-sided talented our Russian, and above all Russian, youth are.

Such projects and such programs, broadcast throughout the vast Russia with its 9 time zones, of course, leave no one indifferent, and at the same time they lead to sad thoughts.

Talented children with beautiful voices were in Russia, of course, 5, 15, and 25 years ago, hence the question arises: why the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation did not search for them and teach them in previous years, but was engaged in promotion to the stage, to all Russian TV channels of mostly our own, Jewish singers, whom we see from year to year on all "New Year's Lights" and other TV shows?

Who is to blame for this?

The laws of biology ?!

For this reason, I am asking my question for the third time: why can't a non-Jew be the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation?