Re: Russian poets get jail sentences for anti-war poetry reading

Steve Hayes, <news:[email protected]>

> Russian poets get jail sentences for anti-war poetry reading
>
> By Laura Gozzi
>
> BBC News
> <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67833649>
>
> Two Russian poets have been handed long jail sentences for taking part
> in a reading of anti-war poems in Moscow.
>
> A Moscow court gave Artyom Kamardin seven years and Yegor Shtovba five
> and a half years for "inciting hatred" against Russian troops and

> Kamardin read out a poem which crudely criticised Russian imperialism
> in southern Ukraine and included the words "Glory to the Kievan Rus" -

This is only the first part of the slogan. If the BBC was a credible
outlet then it would provide the slogan in full. But the BBC is long
known as a fake news outlet. The poetic slogan in full was "Glory to
the Kievan Rus while Novorossia shall suck a male penis" (in Russian
it rhymes, where Novorossia is the south-east part of the present (or,
more correctly, by now, - former) Ukraine)). Thus the slogan promotes
a racist-like hatred between (sub)ethnicities. The freaky 'poet' also
fantacized in his anti-war 'poetry' about various sorts of salacious,
bad actions to which he would subject wives and children of those
Russia's soldiers who're fighting away from their families. Etc, etc ..
The noise the Atlanticist media makes about such freaks won't help.
If these guys weren't punished then many people would be left feeling
insulted, especially the soldiers who are fighting.