Russia used to be an intellectual hub of Europe. From Tolstoy to Tchaikovsky their culture was celebrated everywhere...

Russia used to be an intellectual hub of Europe. From Tolstoy to Tchaikovsky their culture was celebrated everywhere. Then came communism.

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Thats so fucked. Story?

What are you talking about? The Soviet Union produced Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khatchatourian, Sviridov, Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Kalatozov, and Klimov.

>implying communism has ever existed

Laurus is the best novel to come out in the last ten years, and it's Russian.

Russia (literally) has the highest education rate in the world.

Also, this is a Russian bishop who's also a composer, and his work is pretty dank, heavily inspired by Bach. This is his own St. Matthew's Passion: youtube.com/watch?v=A5XgsLqUN6k

Here is an interview with him, where he talks about music: crisismagazine.com/2012/an-interview-with-metropolitan-hilarion-alfeyev

>I do not know anything in classical music more sublime, meaningful, profound and spiritual than Bach’s works. Bach is a colossus; his music contains a universal element that is all-embracing. As the poet Joseph Brodsky said, “In every piece of music there is Bach. In each of us there is God.”

>The New York-based Anti-Defamation League on Thursday urged the world's Orthodox Christian leaders to support a Christian proposal to excise ancient anti-Semitic passages from their liturgy.

>Unlike the Catholic and Protestant Churches, the Orthodox Church has never removed anti-Semitic passages from its liturgy, which still refers to Jews as Christ killers, said Dr. Dmitry Radyshevsky, director of the Jerusalem Summit, a conservative Israeli think tank. He noted that the anti-Semitic passages were most conspicuous during Easter services, and included such statements as "the Jewish tribe which condemned you to crucifixion, repay them Oh Lord," - which is repeated half a dozen times during the liturgy - "Christ has risen but the Jewish seed has perished" as well as references to Jews as "God-killers."

jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-Excise-anti-Semitic-liturgy-from-Orthodox-Church

This is his response to that

>Russian Orthodox theologian and bishop Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Vienna's lecture on "Theological Education in the 21st Century"

>Even more inadmissible, from my point of view, is the correction of liturgical texts in line with contemporary norms. Relatively recently the Roman Catholic Church decided to remove the so-called 'antisemitic' texts from the service of Holy Friday.
rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2008/11/orthodox-bishop-comments-on-recent.html

And Adekolonskiy
youtu.be/hKduXXZE4zA

>Russia used to be the intellectual hub of Europe.
This is what pidorashkas actually believe.

And for that matter Russia got only more intellectual under the communist on the count they were the first people on the planet to visit space.

Then came Illidan, the one they call the betrayer, the enemy of my enemy.

Jokes aside, Russia still had great literature, and the USSR championed science.