"We are all militarists and imperials"

Director of the State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky gave an interview with Rossiya Gazeta. Here are some quotes from the conversation:

🟢 “Our last exhibitions abroad are just a powerful cultural offensive. If you want, a kind of “special operation”. Which many do not like. "

🟢 “A special military operation in Ukraine does not change anything here. <...> We are Europe, and at some moments more Europe than many of its classic countries. And of course, than the EU, which is now turning into the Soviet Union. ”

🟢 “Crimea created a situation when it was no longer a different way, it was necessary to unfold. Our country makes great global transformations. ”

🟢 “We understand the historical mission of our country. And this feeling that our country is changing world history and you are involved in this - it is key now. ”

🟢 “With the attitude to military operations, everything is not so simple. On the one hand, war is blood and murder, and on the other, self -affirmation of people, self -affirmation of the nation. ”

The text of the interview can be found here .

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