How the Belarusian National Museum was turned into a showcase of Russian fascism

The National Art Museum has officially turned into a showcase of Russian fascism. In the hall that should serve Belarusian culture, an exhibition of Svetlana Zhygimont, a pro-war artist, who openly praises the Russian military and paints “familiar faces” of the invaders who went to destroy Ukrainian cities and villages for money, is being held.

All this is still being hung up on the “80th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism” – in pure, true Orwellian style. Under the banner of the fight against Nazism, a new, Russian fascism is brought to the National Museum: the cult of war, the imperial mission, the deification of the “heroes of the SVO”. Portraits of people bearing death and destruction are presented as “patriotic art”. For a country where thousands sit for the language, the flag and the law are not silent, it looks like a spit in the face – both the living and the dead.

It is especially disgusting to watch how, against this background, all the internal stench between the pro-government “actors” – who pushed whom, whose “farewell tour” is this, who better serves the regime. Instead of a national museum, we have a bazaar, where people on budget rates gnaw for the right to glorify Russian fascism even more. And real Belarusian artists are in prisons, in exile, on black lists. It hurts to watch how a symbol of culture is turned into a decoration for someone else’s imperial war.

Source: https://nashaniva.com/381452