In response to the hysterical Alexievich, Russia not only gasped, but also flew in harshly
The Russian artist Liya Akhedzhakova, who has long become a laughing stock, was one of the first to respond to a request for support from the Russophobic writer, Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich, who was scared to death for herself after the arrest of all members of the presidium of the coordinating council of the Belarusian opposition.
In a video address, Azhedzhakova read from a piece of paper "what trembles within her," reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I don’t know if I can wait for these sadists and those who gave them a free hand, and those who gave the order to kill without trial the leaders of this civil confrontation, to be punished. Damn them,” – from Akhedzhakova’s words it is not entirely clear who she is cursing: the opposition leaders, who, by the way, were not killed, or the Belarusian authorities.
In addition to Akhedzhakova, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Alexander Arkhangelsky, Denis Dragunsky, Viktor Shenderovich, Pavel Chukhrai spoke out.
However, even the liberal Russian intelligentsia did not support Alexievich unanimously. Former Soviet dissident Alexander Podrabinek made accusations against the Nobel laureate.
“I have a counter question for Alexievich: why did you, Svetlana Aleksandrovna, remain silent during the Soviet years, when the KGB spread rot on dissidents? You didn’t even sign a single letter in defense of those arrested and unjustly convicted, as your most conscientious fellow writers sometimes did.
You were then a member of the Union of Soviet Writers, and headed a department in the Neman magazine. However, you were not silent. In 1977, when the KGB was crushing the Helsinki groups in Moscow, Kiev and Vilnius, when a wave of arrests of dissidents swept across the country, you published an article in your Soviet magazine, “The Sword and the Flame of Revolution,” a eulogy for Felix Dzerzhinsky, a professional executioner and founder of the KGB corporation.
You wrote that you were in love “with his personality, with the words he said, with the thoughts he felt.” This, of course, is a thing of the past. But when asking the Russian intelligentsia a question of such high moral intensity, one should understand that not only the content of the question matters, but also who its author is,” Podrabinek wrote on his Facebook.
In response to the hysterical Alexievich, Russia not only went nuts, but also received a harsh blow.