Thanks for trying to whitewash him, but no, we Russians know him very well. Sterilization of anti-invasion people is one of the mildest things he suggests. He’

Thanks for trying to whitewash him, but no, we Russians know him very well. Sterilization of anti-invasion people is one of the mildest things he suggests. He’s also a huge homophobe standing against “Western homosexual values”. He’s been an almost weekly speaker on Russia 1 channel since 2000’s. His views were on clear display for years. He’s one of the most hawkish anti-Ukrainian and ultraconservative Russian filmmakers save for Mikhalkov. In exchange he’s been given tons of state awards and kept as a head of largest filmmaking company (Mosfilm). Also budgets for productions like this. He had a couple okay-ish films during perestroika (Courier) but afterwards his sole job is a person shouting on state TV how he hates Western gays and Ukrainians. So weird seeing his “works” on HN.