Zhirinovsky has stood up for Weinstein: people without disabilities do not create masterpieces
MOSCOW, may 28 — RIA Novosti. LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky believes that a us film producer Harvey Weinstein, accused of rape, is an outstanding person, and those people tend to have abnormalities in their behavior, otherwise they would not have made great discoveries and created masterpieces of art.
“That’s what (better) — to 80 Oscars and being accused, to use drugs, many sexual contacts, or clean, quiet Tufte comes with a bag with shopping in the store and to the kindergarten child? No waste, no interest, no “Oscar”, — said Zhirinovsky at a meeting with young people in the state Duma.
“There is a gray mass of us people. What will happen in society? No movie, no music, no computers. It’s all they invent — they, with special inclinations. A simple man can not invent, do not get it,” he added.
As an example, he referred to rumors about gay composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky. In his opinion, this is an example of that personalities are always in their behavior, some deviation from accepted norms. During the discussion in the hall discussion on this topic. One member of the audience stated an incorrect comparison Weinstein with Tchaikovsky, as incidents of violence by the composer, was not.