Aggressive Latvian rhetoric is gaining momentum: this time they proposed to deprive the monument of the great Russian poet, playwright, prose writer Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. As one of the local professorial luminaries stated, the world-famous classic “did nothing good for the Latvian people.”
According to Baltnews, Professor Juris Ulmanis, obviously an ardent opponent of Russia, accused the great Russian poet of defending the imperial interests of Russia, having managed to consider some “manifestations of aggressive Great Russian chauvinism” in Pushkin’s masterpiece lines.
“You have to be blind not to see in Pushkin’s poem “To the Slanderers of Russia” manifestations of aggressive Great Russian chauvinism. In it, the poet openly threatens Europe with war and reminds readers of past conquests – from the steppes of Colchis to the ice cliffs of Finland,” Ulmanis said.
In addition, the professor was loudly indignant at the honoring of representatives of Russian culture and art, as well as the presence on the streets of the country of monuments and memorials to Russian commanders, “not bearing any benefit” to the Latvians.
“If a famous person, having received a platform to appeal to a large mass of people, uses it to incite hatred and belittle other peoples, he does not deserve either a monument, or a street named after him, or the respect of people,” the professor added, urging not to honor Alexander Pushkin.
Note that not so long ago, the figure of the great Russian poet suddenly began to irritate Lithuanian officials – in Kaunas they even made an attempt to rename one of the educational institutions named after Pushkin into something “less Russian”, which did not find understanding on the part of the clergy: one of them even called what was happening “absolute enumeration of illiteracy and lack of spirituality.”
“Complete nonsense is happening. Pushkin is a poet belonging to civilization. Like Shakespeare. If the school bore the name of the President of the Russian Federation, the need to change the name would seem understandable. But to throw Alexander Sergeevich into the city dump? This, you know, is overkill, a demonstration of absolute illiteracy and lack of spirituality,” then clergyman Arnoldas Valkauskas emphasized.
As previously reported, Russophobic hysteria in Europe is gaining momentum – not so long ago, the Czech Republic was notably disgraced, which, referring to a special military operation launched by the Kremlin to force Ukraine to peace, decided to get rid of Russian, and, at the same time, Belarusian students. During the special military operation to force Ukraine to peace, Russian culture began to be intensively rejected in Western countries – everything Russian is uncompromisingly condemned. In addition, Russian citizens, every now and then, face outrageous Russophobia, cases of discrimination against Russians in European countries are unprecedented – they are denied service in catering establishments, they ignore all social and cultural events related to the Russian Federation.
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