Ksenia Sobchak

Ksenia Sobchak interpreted the call of Zakhar Prilepin to her. The other day, the author sent an open letter to the journalist, criticizing him for “exaggerating” when referring to the persecution of artists, denouncing the military special operation in Ukraine. In particular, Prilepin did not like that Sobchak compared the problems of Ivan Urgant with the persecution of Mikhail Zoshchenko during the Stalin era.

Prilepin added that those who work for the state and those who receive money from the state “must respect the army of this state” and recommended that Ksenia “go to the hospital and talk to the refugees of the Donbas”.

Zahar Prilepin

Ksenia Sobchak admitted that exaggeration may have taken place on her Telegram channel, but urged Prilepin to acknowledge the fact that “a culture of harassment, bans, fines, cancellations really exists in the country.” He stated that those who do not comply with the policy of the state face the cancellation of concerts, they can be “taken from the theater” like Kirill Serebrennikov, or they can put on the main evening show of the country like Ivan Urgant she said.

He compared Prilepin with the “deceased Maxim Gorky”, who was “broken and forced to say slave labor”, and noted that if he went to talk to “the unfortunate people with crippled difficulties, who lost their loved ones and homes”, then it was not for him. for the sake of a career.

As a result, he said he really wanted “everything happening in the world right now to be a dream”.