Russian "Culture" Doesn't Excuse War Crimes.

It motivates them.

Putin IS the St Petersburg law student in Crime and Punishment.

Rashkalnikov, a dumb know-it-all, kills two older women (who may or not personify the Goddess Europa), just to see if he can get away with it.

Russians who have tried to stop the destruction of Russia through its genocidal policies are Dostoyevsky's "Idiot."

Ruschist "culture" perceives anti-corrupt people today as "Idiots," "Superfluous" people, whose lack of cynicism is weakness.

Listen to transcripts of Ruschist soldiers in Bucha speaking to their mothers and girlfriends in March 2022. Their conversations could have been lifted from any of the Deep Folk's literature over the past two centuries. Here's Ivan's dream.

No. Not Ivan Karamazov's disturbing dream from Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov.

This Ivan participated in the mass murder of civilians in Bucha.

Then on the phone of an executed Ukrainian civilian, he calls his girlfriend back in Muscovy.

Here's how "Deep" Ivan is, and how banal Russian "culture" is:

"He calls his girlfriend, Olya, and tells her he had a dream about her.

Ivan: “F—-, you know, it’s driving me crazy here. It’s just that ... You were just … I felt you, touched you with my hand. I don’t understand how it’s possible, why, where … But I really felt you. I don’t know, I felt something warm, something dear. It’s like something was on fire in my hands, so warm … And that’s it. I don’t know. I was sleeping and then I woke up with all these thoughts. War … You know, when you’re sleeping — and then you’re like … War … Where, where is it? It was just dark in the house, so dark. And I went outside, walked around the streets, and thought: damn, f—- it. And that’s it. I really want to come see you.”

Olya: “I am waiting for you.”

Ivan: “Waiting? OK. I’m waiting, too. Waiting for the time I can come see you ... Let’s make a deal. When we see each other, let’s spend the entire day together. Laying around, sitting together, eating, looking at each other — just us, together.”

Olya: (Laughs) “Agreed.”

Ivan: “Together all the time. Hugging, cuddling, kissing … Together all the time, not letting each other go.”

Olya: “Well, yeah!”

Ivan: “You can go f——— crazy here. It’s so f—- up, the s—- that’s happening. I really thought it would be easy here, to tell you the truth. That it’s just gonna be easy to talk, think about it. But it turned out to be hard, you need to think with your head all the time. So that’s that.”

Ivan: “We are really at the front line. As far out as you could be. Kyiv is 15 kilometers (about 10 miles) from us. It is scary, Olya. It really is scary.”

Olya: “Hello?”

Ivan: “Do you hear me?”

The line drops."

You see Russian language and culture is inseparable from its art.

And the stereotypes it provides to Putin, and other Disinfolklorists are precisely the problem.

You can't "admire" Russian culture, without admiring genocide. Read it to understand how to Counter Russian Disinfolklore. But don't put it on a pedestal or "what aboutery it" it's all part of the same genocidal system.