"I am more acceptable for Russian politics than lemons." Zakhar Prilepin-in Yetyub-show Galina Yuzefovich

On the Utuub channel of the Literary critic of the "Medusa" Galina Yuzefovich, an interview with the writer Zakhar Prilepin was published. Within an hour they talked about the new book of Prilepin “Yesenin. Promising the meeting ahead ”, about politics, including about the Donbass, and about Prilepin’s relationship with Eduard Limonov.

Answering the question why Limonov expelled him from the National Bolshevik Party (NBP, prohibited in Russia), Prilepin said that it was painfully difficult to experience some things that are happening to me. "

“Limonov sought minimal legalization [of his activity]: give us the Baltic states, Kazakhstan, let us engage in the education of youth. They did not give anything. He sought this for 25 years, and then suddenly I begin to create some organizations, and they instantly receive legalization, ”Prilepin explained.

“Times have partly changed. I-due to some visual or biographical circumstances-are more acceptable for politics than lemons. Well, how do we plant Limonov with Serdyukov nearby or with Shoigu? For them, he is completely ... strange. But I am not, ”Prilepin believes.

Yuzefovich also asked Prilepin the question of the future of the self -proclaimed republics of Donbass.

“An ideal option would be to give the Donbass to develop not as the rest of Russia: to develop on the principles of solidarity, socialism, it is not necessary to send an ordinary Russian official there,” the writer believes. - For Donbass, the simplest option is to join Russia. They earned a slightly different life, a little more amazing, slightly more colorful. I do not believe that they could get such a life from Ukraine. These are Russian people who have earned the right to teach their children in Russian. ”