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Piotrovsky goes on to describe russian culture as an important export, similar to the country's war in Ukraine. "Our recent exhibitions abroad are just a powerful cultural offensive. If you want, a kind of 'special operation', which a lot of people don't like. But we are coming. And no one can be allowed to interfere with our offensive."

Using comparisons to historic wars, the museum director then explains why russians must support the current war in Ukraine. “Right now our country has made the transition to a different time,” Piotrovsky said. “The first period of the Scythian war has come to an end. We retreated and retreated, now we are no longer retreating. A turn has been made. And it’s already clear that is the final turn. It all began in 2014 in Crimea.”

Piotrovsky casts the transformation in epochal terms, with the museum as an island of stability. “Our country is carrying out great global transformations,” he said. “And we, accordingly, are part of them and with her. Our position is one of calm, normal work.”

When the rossiiskaya Gazeta interviewer expressed doubts about a pacifist position, Piotrovsky agrees. “We are all militarists and imperials,” he laughed. “First and foremost, it is my country and I must be with it. I sometimes repeat the jingoistic formula: this is my country, whatever it may be like. There are situations when it is absolutely clear that a person should be with his country. And in the West they understand that these are all real things—that we are with our country. When a very serious issue is being resolved, there are no other options.”

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/24/no-one-can-interfere-with-our-offensive-hermitage-director-mikhail-piotrovsky-compares-russian-export-of-culture-to-countrys-operation-in-ukraine

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