Russian President Vladimir Putin, at the direction of which a full-scale invasion of Ukraine began a month ago, explained the criticism of Russia in the world by the culture of cancellation and compared the aggressor country with the author of the Harry Potter books JK Rowling. The President, who started the war, shared these thoughts at a meeting with the laureates of awards in the field of culture and art, the Russian Novaya Gazeta reports..

“Not so long ago, children's writer JK Rowling was canceled because she - the author of books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world - did not please fans of so-called gender freedoms.. Today they are trying to cancel a whole thousand-year-old country, our people, ”Putin said..

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At the same time, he is sure that in the West, the works of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rakhmanin are “blacked out” from concert posters, and books by Russian writers are banned.. Putin does not name specific examples of such actions, but believes that they are reminiscent of the destruction of "

“The notorious culture of cancellation has turned into the cancellation of culture,” says the president of the aggressor country.

Putin's statements did not pass by the attention of Rowling herself. She already responded to them on Twitter.

“Criticism of Western cancellation culture might not be best addressed by those who kill civilians, imprison and poison their opponents,” the writer wrote.. She attached to the publication a photo of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who was recently sentenced to nine years in prison by a court held in a colony..

Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine https://t. co/aNItgc5aiW.

—J. Rowling (@jk_rowling) March 25, 2022.