[...] la comunità siberiana in cui sono cresciuto proveniva da una molto più antica che aveva già sviluppato un sistema di autocontrollo e che si opponeva a qualsiasi forma di potere. Non soltanto al socialismo, si opposero al regime dello Zar e alla sua schiavitù. [...] Alla fine degli anni Ottanta già sapevo che la comunità stava morendo. Quando ho iniziato a scrivere mi sono reso conto che la tradizione li ha aiutati a sopravvivere, ma non ha potuto salvarli.
Moldovan and Italian writer
Nicolai Lilin (born 12 February, 1980) is an Italian-Moldovan writer. His first novel, Siberian Education, was adapted into a 2013 film directed by Gabriele Salvatores. He has since attracted attention for spreading Russian propaganda throughout the course of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Nikolai Verzhbitsky
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Nikolai Yurievich Verzhbitsky
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Non esiste più nessuna comunità. Sono io, mio fratello, e forse qualcun altro. Il problema è che anche in Siberia non è rimasto niente. Il nucleo di questa comunità è stato deportato in Transnistria e lì non è sopravvissuto.
Italian journalism and reporting [...] are all whores of the regime. I'm sorry but that's how it is. [...] when we talk about Italian newspapers, we are talking about scrap paper. Intellectual work in Italy no longer exists, coherence no longer exists. When you read something in the Italian press, it cannot be credible, period.
I'm apolitical. I only write about what I've seen and experienced, but someone who still dreams of black communism would prefer me dead. And if I had stayed in the country, I already would be. That's why I, my wife, and my four-year-old daughter sleep with a Kalashnikov next to our pillow. [...] The Carabinieri are very worried, and my family even more so. On Facebook they have written terrible things to me, some absurd (a guy who claims to have paid hitmen from the Russian mafia to eliminate me) others more credible.
Mine was a criminal family. My grandfather robbed banks and my father armored vans. During the war my grandfather was a sniper, like almost all Siberian hunters; he was in the same convoy that took the great Vasily Zaytsev to Stalingrad. I'm often told that I had a bad childhood. Perhaps it's true, but I liked it that way. That element got me closer to the adults and I felt responsible.
I work with news, on my private Telegram channel; therefore, I have people who pay me to be informed. If people pay to have coherent news, it means that many citizens do not agree with what the Italian media reports and it is not surprising, because the Italian press keeps telling a lot of bullshit. The Russian press is always based on a propaganda line. We must not think that in Italy they are propagandists and in Russia they tell the whole truth. There is propaganda there too, but there is a difference: Russian journalists do not distance themselves from the objective truth, which is what Westerners have started to do quite some time ago.