The governor of the Kurgan region, Vasily Shumkov, said that the increased number of depressions and suicides among Russian children is associated with listening to Western music. Today's children, he says, "sing songs written by the descendants of African-American slaves" and "are filled with quasi-cultural vulgarity."
“Many of our children, the grandchildren of the victorious people, are already growing up, not knowing and not remembering their kind-tribe, singing songs written by the descendants of African-American slaves, often aping and imitating in habits, language, being filled with frankly second-rate quasi-cultural vulgarity. Clinging to this secondary, being proud of it,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.
It is from here, in his opinion, "the growth of frank spiritual emptiness, depression, suicide, lack of meaning in life."
And “neglect of native culture and commonality with kindred national traditions,” Shumkov continues, leads to the fact that “in our time, like the biblical Cain and Abel, they again go brother against brother, hiding behind foreign“ well-wishers ”, for whom they are“ white Papuans ”, normal consumable.
The governor sees salvation in "inculcating love for one's roots, for the memory of ancestors, their glorious and kind history, their heroic past."
Shumkov is not the first time he gives out such quotes and writes strange posts. So, in November he suddenly declared that he "heard the voice of the Lord". What his statement meant was not very clear. “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?” And I said: “Here I am, send me.” The governor philosophically remarked that "God has no other hands than ours."
And in May, Shumkov said that he did not like the word "tolerance" because it was "sexual seduction." “I treat the words “democracy” and “tolerance” with caution. For me, the concept of “tolerance” is generally something indecent. It means something of sexual seduction. I don't like it," he said.
