People’s Artist of Russia, State Duma Deputy Nikolai Burlyaev, who is in Kaliningrad on a creative trip, criticized officials for Russophobia.
Burlyaev attended the concert of the Kaliningrad Regional Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments and then spoke from the stage:
“The attitude of our officials towards the people, despite all the presidential decrees on traditional spiritual and moral values, remains, in general, a very alarming moment. There is still a hidden Russophobia and the reluctance of officials to change. The only thing you have to do is reach out to Europe, which Lermontov already told you about, that to reach out to them you have to live your own life. I’m sure there is a new governor (Alexey Besprozvannykh. — EADaily), and today we spoke with him, he will seriously address this issue, because that is what needs to be supported!”
Then Nikolai Burlyaev read a poem by the Russian poet. Nikolai Yazykov “To Not Ours”, written in 1841, where there are lines supposedly about Kaliningrad, which has been undergoing hidden Germanization processes for decades:
“Oh you who want
Transform us, pamper us
And Germanize Russia, listen
My naive cry!
At the end of the performance, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Burlyaev declared from the stage:
“Victory will be ours!”
EADaily clarifies that Kaliningrad music experts have more than once drawn public attention to the deplorable financial situation of the regional Russian folk instrument orchestra. It got to the point where artists were seen performing on the street among tourists. Well-known cultural expert in Kaliningrad Natalia Mednis wrote on his blog:
“When elite musicians are forced to work on the streets. Kaliningrad Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments. I remember them on the big stage. The delight was incredible and the class was visible here too! Ermak (Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Kaliningrad Region) Andrey Ermak. — EADaily), sleep peacefully with cheesecakes and barbecues on your head? How Russophobic do you have to be to destroy national culture like this? Don’t you think deliberately? This is the president of the regional military-historical society, who is never seen next to the Memel iconostasis, a spiritual artifact from the Seven Years War, which is located in the center of Kaliningrad, in the cathedral, but everything German is above everything. . Have you noticed that the park’s commemorative sign immortalizes Alexander I and Frederick III together? I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but considering his attitude towards the Northern Military District (did anyone see him in hospitals, etc., inviting guys who were fighting to festivals?), he knows what he’s doing. The destruction of national culture as a planned result.”
