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I will be entirely honest, I have never heard of this guy or his poems before. He seems cringe though. Keep on cherrypicking things to discredit Russian culture.
This is not a random nobody. Here is a quote on his Wikipedia page.
According to Professor Andrey Ranchin of Moscow State University: “Brodsky is the only modern Russian poet whose body of work has already been awarded the honorary title of a canonized classic... Brodsky's literary canonization is an exceptional phenomenon. No other contemporary Russian writer has been honored as the hero of such a number of memoir texts; no other has had so many conferences devoted to them”.
Your country's public consciousness has a streak of blatant imperialism. It's condoned and supported at many institutional levels. It seeps into every corner of life. Really, when even your eminent poets think they should write something like this... It is a major part of the public sentiment, really the overall attitude of the Russian public. I think so many years under Soviet oppression, without a democratic government for any appreciable length of time even before then may have really stifled your country's "character" progression to a more fair, liberal society. My own personal anger at one loon's ramblings aside, I ask that you recognize this.
I greatly appreciate your moral support for Ukraine. It is good to have as many good-hearted and not indifferent people on our side as possible, wherever they may come from. And I really can't blame you for having a national identity, it's what we are trying to protect anyway.