Moscow School Teaches Russian Boys to Look Up to Cavemen

At the point when Ruslan Goncharov, 25, alludes back to the Stone Age, it is not for history's purpose, but rather as an illustration of more promising times.

"Man goes out, murders a mammoth, conveys the mammoth home to his wife, the wife gets ready it and after that spares the scraps, salts them et cetera.


"The man takes his wife by the hand, drives her to a hole and says: 'This is our cavern. We are going to live here. I discovered it.'

"The lady checks out the hollow. It's chilly, exhaust. What's more, says: Here we will make a work of art, here we will have our chimney. Fabricate it, it would be ideal if you sweetheart, the stones are too substantial."

Goncharov and Roman Ovchinnikov, 24, two clean-shaven men in thin fit suits who seem as though they ventured out of Il Divo, are the authors of the School of Masculinity, a "science-based" preparing system that guarantees to transform young men into Russian men.

An instructive night has attracted a few dozen folks to an in vogue space in focal Moscow. Aside from a modest bunch of fathers — one intensely wears a pink silk shirt — the group of onlookers is involved moderately aged ladies. Their countenances uncover a blend of concern and blame.

"Тhe [question of masculinity] is an issue that is truly on folks' brains," Ovchinnikov said.

The Male Condition

Russian ladies reviewed on online networking concur that Russian men tackle the part of guardian — they pay eatery bills, convey packs, hold entryways, and will unquestionably do tasks around the home.

Be that as it may, "these advantages accompany a guarantee peril," Valeria, 26, a legal advisor who declined to give her surname, said on Facebook. "[Russian men] will unavoidably be disparaging — even the best of them. This takes different structures, from not giving you a chance to perform basic assignments to banishing you from having a social life," she composed on Facebook.

Alesya, an interchanges mentor, 33, concurred Russian men were for the most part overwhelming. "In the established circumstance, a lady can't choose for herself where to travel, or freely purchase an auto. The spouse will take an interest and control everything," she said.

Russian men are more inclined to liquor addiction than ladies, an OECD wellbeing review not long ago indicated — and local misuse is not remarkable.

The School of Masculinity made no notice of that vexed notoriety.

Manliness is the "capacity to push ahead paying little heed to trepidation, torment or different hindrances," Goncharov said. That capacity, the mentors told the folks, is under risk. What's more, Russian moms are for the most part to fault.

Control Mania

With about 25 million non military personnel and military passings, the Soviet Union endured a larger number of losses than whatever other country in World War II.

The loss of life, and Russia's high separate rate, mean numerous ladies have brought up their kids without any help, a wonder the School of Masculinity's authors view as the foundation of today's issues.

"Those ladies didn't raise men. Also, these men, who are not men, are currently attempting to raise the following men," Ovchinnikov said.

Oleg Chagin, 52, a rough father of 13, administers the "science" behind the manliness system, outlined it for the gathering of people: "Ladies raise young ladies," he reported.

Chagin, the self-declared leader of the Research Institute of Social Anthropogenesis — a foundation that does not have an official site — likewise denounces the utilization of diapers, charging they prepare little children to be frail, and says youngsters ought to learn at school holding up.

He asserts that in numerous Russian young men "the male hormone" — an unspecified substance — is never delivered, prompting a condition he calls "sexual orientation depravity."

Moms are the "perfect controllers," continually cossetting their children, he said, bringing about ladies in the gathering of people to squirm.

"For youngsters to end up men, you have to make an upsetting circumstance," he said. "In the event that a man quits battling, he transforms into a baba [chick]