Moscow, the capital of Russian culture and Russian liberalism, both of which have been weakened by war-related emigration, is apparently to be brought into line culturally and politically.

In a YouTube video, the city government's culture commissioner, Alexander Kibowski, demands that civil society must support President Putin's "special operation" because it is fighting the "neo-colonialism" of the West, which has manifested itself in the formation of a pro-Western Russian elite.

As a guest of the dialogue program "Manuchi-Empathie" (Empatiya Manuchi) loyal to Putin, Kibovsky said that the West sees the Russians as barbarians and has been trying to rewrite Russia's history since perestroika and take away the country's sovereignty.

Kibowski vilifies patriotic writers, artists and intellectuals who have struggled for human rights and coming to terms with the past, many of whom have been persecuted and forced to leave their countries, as "apostates".

Russia has been deprived of its cultural reserves as a result of the wave of emigration, admits Kibowski, who compares it to a hangover left behind by self-intoxication through foreign civilizational values.

The new cultural elite will emerge from the current fighters on the Ukrainian front, predicts the official, who emphasizes his own military service as a marine and equates Russia's current war of aggression with the Soviet defensive struggle in World War II.

As examples of future authority figures who would one day hold shirkers and greedy officials to account, he cites actor Yevgeny Pavlov, who serves in the Motorized Rifle Corps, an operatic tenor who operates a machine gun, and a businessman friend who also volunteered for military service have.

Kibowski claims that since independence, Ukrainians have been brought up in the spirit of a radical “selfish” nationalism often seen among former subjects of the Russian Empire – and points to the Latvian-born Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg.

He provocatively quotes the closing verses of the war poem by the famous Soviet poet Konstantin Simonov, "If your house is dear to you", which, after a long digression on homeland, forefathers and the bestialities of fascists, demands: "Kill at least one!

Kill him as often as you see him!” The shock to many users of social networks was probably intentional.