{"id":76511,"date":"2024-03-29T19:45:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/76511\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:40:57","slug":"culture-minister-says-intelligentsia-being-cleansed-of-destructive-elements","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/76511\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture minister says intelligentsia being cleansed of destructive elements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"block-image block-image-normal\">\n\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1128\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ministr_kultury_markevich_svisl_gaz_1128x752.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ministr_kultury_markevich_svisl_gaz_1128x752.jpg 1128w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ministr_kultury_markevich_svisl_gaz_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ministr_kultury_markevich_svisl_gaz_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ministr_kultury_markevich_svisl_gaz_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ministr_kultury_markevich_svisl_gaz_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1128px) 100vw, 1128px\" \/>\n  <figcaption>\n      <div class=\"block-image__descr\">\n\n        Anatol Markievi\u010d\n    <\/div>\n  \n       <div class=\"block-image__author\">\n                <span>(\u015avis\u0142ackaja Hazieta)<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n     <\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>March 29, <em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> Belarusian Culture Minister Anatol Markievi\u010d has called on authorities to achieve a &#8220;moral victory&#8221; over &#8220;terrible spiritual threats,&#8221; state media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was speaking at the St Elisabeth Convent in Minsk, where the Council of the Republic held a presidium meeting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the opposition Belarusian Council for Culture, there were 148 political prisoners-cultural workers in December. It documented reprisals against more than 1,000 cultural figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Markievi\u010d said art galleries, projects and cultural spaces funded by &#8220;fake philanthropists and Western foundations&#8221; poured &#8220;spiritual poison&#8221; into the minds of young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some of them succumbed to this corrupting influence and became a thoughtless but dangerous, destructive weapon in the hands of their foreign puppet masters,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the authorities have learned lessons from the 2020 protests and are &#8220;purging the creative intelligentsia of people who undermine the foundations of the state that raised and fed them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 29, Pozirk. Belarusian Culture Minister Anatol Markievi\u010d has called on authorities to achieve a &#8220;moral victory&#8221; over &#8220;terrible spiritual threats,&#8221; state media reported. 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