The point of spammers or ransom ware authors is to survive as well. Doesn’t mean they are valuable.

If you say that russian culture is valuable, you must set the context why.

It doesn’t communicate anything particularly original. It’s not especially beautiful (arguably). It didn’t stop and some might argue even enabled the carriers of that culture to either tolerate a genocidal regime or actively support it. What’s the point of it then?

What’s the point of the moral dilemma in “Crime and punishment” for example, if their choice is always “let’s kill another old lady because we can”?