The head of the Department of Culture of the Moscow government, Alexander Kibovsky, called for the killing of Ukrainians, while he used the final lines from a poem by Konstantin Simonov during World War II, distorting the meaning of what was written. The minister read the 1942 work on the YouTube show Manuchi's Empathy.
He once again used the thesis of Russian propaganda that in Ukraine the Russian army allegedly “fights against the Nazis” and that “there should be no mercy” for Ukrainians. Kibovsky stated that in this situation he could quote only the "most correct" lines of Konstantin Simonov:
“So kill at least one!
So kill him now!
How many times will you see him
Kill him so many times!"
He then added the propaganda slogan, "Work, brothers."
In Simonov's poem, we are talking about the Nazis, he calls on fellow citizens to defend their homes. However, the Moscow minister decided, with the help of lines that once united citizens in the fight against the attacked Nazi Germany, to call for the killing of citizens of Ukraine, which was attacked by the Russian Federation on February 24. It is noteworthy that the third wife of the poet Simonov, the Soviet actress Valentina Serova, was born in Ukraine, in Kharkov. They were married from 1943 to 1957.
At the end of the interview, Kibovsky added that he was also drawn out for personal assessments in the conversation, as an official, he hoped to speak "more accurately."
