Zhirinovsky, the populist leader of the LDPR party with ~20% of the seats in the Russian Duma, put suffering and otherness at the center of creative process. In his lament to Putin about the lack of cultural development in Russia he said the following:[0]
Why did Dostoevsky become a great writer? 10 years of hard labor.
What conclusion do I draw? We must incarcerate.
After being in jail for three, four or five years, a Dostoevsky will appear...
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The history of art and culture is developed by jail or by sexual minorities.
We utilize neither today, therefore we don't have any great cultural creators.
A straight person living in a luxurious Moscow apartment will not create.
For creativity you need a trouble maker. A freak will create.