Medinsky refused to apologize to Granin

Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky believes that he does not need to apologize to the author of the Blockade Book Daniil Granin for his statements on the air of Radio "Echo of Moscow", Interfax reports. According to him, he cannot apologize for not being told.

“I spoke today on the phone with Daniil Alexandrovich. We have a complete understanding,” Medinsky said. The head of the Ministry of Culture emphasized that his statements, which caused resonance, misunderstood. "The phrase was pulled out of context and turned upside down. I did not say anything about Daniil Granin and the blockade," he said.

On January 31, the Minister called the Echo of Moskvy on the air of the Echo of Moskvy radio station, published by Granin, the data in the Blocade Leningrad for the party leadership of the city, in particular for Andrei Zhdanov, baked cakes - rum women.

After the program was released, the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky turned to Medinsky with an official letter. He demanded that the head of the Ministry of Culture either bring authoritative historical research to the proof of his words, or publicly apologize to Granin on the air of the Echo of Moscow. According to the deputy, the statement of Medinsky is offensive to the front -line soldier and the famous writer.

The press service of the head of the Ministry of Culture then also said that the words of the minister "were pulled out of context and turned inside out." “Speaking” of the lies, he implied that the facts about the production of cakes in the blockade Leningrad were widely known long before the transfer of the “Blockade Book,” the press service noted.

“Such statements of the minister come from ignorance. We are always unlucky with the ministers of culture. Culture cannot be directed at all. Culture must be understood, we must carry in itself,” Medinsky himself commented on Wednesday of Novaya Granin.

Granin in his new book "Man is not from here" published a photograph of the 1941 confectionery workshop, in which the cooks are baked by rum women. The writer found photographs of the same workshop in the archives of the 1942 newspapers. "Proof: a photograph of the same workshop, the same bakers, published in the 1942 newspaper, only there was a signature that bread on the baking sheets. Therefore, the photographs fell into a seal. And these romes did not fall and could not get, because the photographers did not have the right to remove such production, it is all the same to give out military secrets," wrote Granin.