Paul
Goble
Staunton, February 4 – As a result
of Stalin’s repressions that killed so many Russians, the gene fund of that
nation was compromised, leading to a shortage of handsome men, according to
Aleksandr Vasilyev, who hosts “The Fashionable Police” on Moscow’s First
Channel. The solution, he says, is to bring in sperm from nobles living in
other countries.
Vasilyev’s comment, one certain to
infuriate many, came in response to a statement by French fashion designer
Jean-Paul Gaultier, who said he had encountered few attractive male models in Russia although he had found many
beautiful Russian female ones (ura.news/news/1052417891).
Gaultier is “absolutely right,” Vasilyev
says, adding that the most handsome men live in countries like Brazil and the
US that haven’t experienced repressions and thus have retained the genes needed
for good looks. The French designer was picking up on the offensive remarks of
Karl Lagerfeldt who suggested Russian women had little choice but to live as
lesbians given the ugliness of Russian men (gazeta.ru/social/news/2020/02/06/n_14006785.shtml).
Meanwhile in another “fashion” note,
this time from Turkmenistan, whose regime is almost as repressive as Stalin’s, the
local dictator Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has begun to appear in public with
graying hair. As a result, male officials over 40 in one part of that country
have been prohibited from using hair coloring (svoboda.org/a/30418335.html).
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