Cultural Wrath - September 12, 2023

Try to imagine this situation: Orhan Pamuk needs urgent political asylum outside Turkey, his head and freedom are at stake. It's more conceivable than it should be anyway. Therefore, here is a more difficult task: try to imagine that he would request that asylum in Serbia. Why would he do that, with all the more favorable and reliable opportunities available to a Nobel laureate? It doesn't matter, maybe his plane would have to land in Belgrade due to a storm in Vienna or a sudden dangerous failure of the front wing flapper.

Or, imagine the same thing happening, for example, to Viktor Yerofeyev on a flight from Moscow, where he narrowly escaped mysteriously falling from the window of a tall building he had never intended to enter.

In that case, what is the Republic of Serbia doing, for which it is uncertain that it will still exist, or what are the wolves and vulins doing, for which it is too certain to exist? It's not like their heart beats for some Orhan like Orban with a tipfeller, let alone for some Viktor who isn't Orban. On the other hand, Redzep and Volodya are friends, useful but grumpy, they shouldn't be eaten for nothing, that is. for some mercenary scribblers, of which we have too many ourselves. Send the package back, master, we're not home!

Fortunately for us and theirs, Serbia lacks a format and a profile for refugees and refugees of that rank. We will get some that are not known much, but that does not mean that they are not doing something significant. Yevgenij Iržanski, for example, organized great and well-attended concerts of Russian and other post-Soviet musicians in Belgrade, for a large, interested and paying community of new Russian emigrants, as well as for domestic curious people.

And then the wolves and wolves drove him out of the country. Why? Because with his work, he spread dangerous misinformation that their Serbia is a country where, apart from bare life, one can come to freedom. And spreading that terrible slander must not be allowed to anyone: what if some Orhans and Victors are deceived and really believe it? Đura would not even have time to block the airport.

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