Dear Readers:
Today I have this rather odd story from MK. It’s sort of funny, there is definitely some humor to be culled. But the serious side encompasses issues of parents who adopt or foster children, and what a tough struggle it can be sometimes. Especially if the child has physical, mental, or emotional issues to deal with. The new parent is forced to take in all of that baggage (that they themselves didn’t create) and have to deal with it somehow.
The hero (heroine?) of this story is a rather attractive (at least, I think so) Russian woman named Maria Lvova-Belova. She is a seasoned politician who currently serves as the “Children’s Ombudsman” of the Russian Federation. I vaguely recall from some years back, the previous Ombudsman, who was a man, getting in trouble for cracking some inappropriate jokes about “swimming children” after a ferry-boat wreck. Anyhow, Maria has that position now and from all accounts she is doing a good job. It makes more sense to have a woman in that position anyhow; people trust them more with kids.
But I digress… It seems like Maria has some difficult issues of her own to deal with, when she is out of the office and in her own home. Back in 2022 she adopted a teenage (14-year-old) boy from Mariupol. Maria announced this life-changing personal event during a televised show celebrating Russia’s “Day of Family, Love and Fidelity“. This relatively new holiday is Russia’s traditional-values answer to Western Woke holidays (like St. Valentine’s Day, gay/tranny mass orgies and various other Gomorrhic events) and is celebrated on July 8. English-language sites frequently mis-translate as “Family, Love, and Faith Day”, confusing the Russian word for “Fidelity” with a similar word meaning religious or spiritual faith.
It’s no secret that the Russian government wants their men and women to pair up in monogamous heterosexual bonds and produce a race of happy patriotic children. If they want to be religious, that’s good too, but not strictly required. Personally, I am dubious that state-sponsored exhortation to Love and Fidelity ever works to produce that desired outcome; but it certainly don’t hurt, as Aunt Stella was once heard to say.
Anyhow, Maria’s new adopted son was literally dragged out of the ruins of the Mariupol rubble; and Maria took him under her generous wing. This act of love and charity got her into trouble with the International Criminal Court at the Hague, which charges her with kidnapping Ukrainian children and moving them to Russia. According to the Hague, Maria should have just left the boy bleeding in the rubble.
Well, in retrospect, maybe she should have. Because this urchin, now 15, is showing some disturbing behavioral traits, according to Maria. She recently revealed, at a press conference, that she caught her son bullying other children at school. He would run behind them, taunting: “I’ll gobble you down, Muscovite child!” ( “Съем москаленка!”)
According to Maria, this is a phrase from Ukrainian propaganda, which the boy must have picked up from his time living among Ukrainians Nationalists and Azovites for 8 years.
The VZGLIAD newspaper picked up the story, with the addition that Lvova-Belova still affirms her love for this boy: “We do love each other,” she affirmed. And President Putin continues to encourage Russian families to adopt (not kidnap) orphaned children from “the new territories”.
Jaded VZGLIAD readers, by the way, are not letting this story pass without some dark humor. In the comment section, Komdiv questions insinuatingly: “A young attractive woman adopted a 15-year-old hooligan?” Another commenter believes that the verb utilized by the boy, in his Russophobic taunt, was actually something different from “eat”, a verb that sounds sort of similar, but with an extra syllable…
Awful Avalanche 
Si hubiera consultado un buen libro de astrologia , hubiese elegido un niño Sagitario-Leo .
Yes, Yes, Yes . ( in english language )
Oui, oui, oui . ( dans le langage de l´amour )
Si , si , si . ( en el idioma de la Inquisicion ) deTorquemada )
Moto ben spiegato ( nel linguaggio dell´arte )
Ja, Ja, Ja ( in deutscher sprache ) .
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I’m sure he’ll turn out OK. That’s exactly how I used to act at 15, and I turned out all right: After all I read ‘Awful Avalanche,’ I support the SMO, and I’m one of the ~10% of Americans with a positive view of Russia!
Innuendo aside, Maria does seem a bit young to be raising an adopted teenage boy. It helps for a parent to be older and more cunning, and to already be well-versed in their children’s idiosyncrasies, by the time the kids hit their troublesome teens.
On the other hand … she DID rat her son out, during a press conference no less, and not just for bullying, but for airing a Ukronazi slur. She’s cunning and ruthless beyond her years. The boy now faces not merely stern parenting at home, but forceful corrective measures from patriotic older kids at school. That ought to straighten him out.
Yes, I think with a mom like Maria he’ll grow up just fine.
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Nice comment! You turned out MORE THAN Okay, John,
in spite of the fact thatnot just because you read Awful Avalanche.Yeah, I agree, I was a bit of a hooligan when I was a kid. Or more like a wannabe hooligan on the playground. (Too chicken-hearted to be an actual hooligan.)
The kid should be fine, so long as Maria rules him with an iron hand. Maybe next time she decides to adopt, she’ll take a sweet-faced burbling infant.
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She is 38, she is probably sufficiently old/experienced enough to raise a child. Even a teenager. I am under the opinion that it is harder for older parents to keep their cool, it is certainly my case 🙂
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That’s good to know. She looks younger than 38, maybe that’s why there were some raised eyebrows! Raising a teenager is always a challenge, especially one with a traumatized past. I actually like the fact that she went public with his misdeed. On the one hand, it seems disloyal to rat out a family member in public. But, on the other hand, it’s probably better to preemptively just get it out there in the open. That protects her from political enemies who might try to use this against her; and also teaches the boy a valuable lesson: If you are to be the son of a prominent official, then you need to know how to behave in public! The important thing is, if he knows that she truly loves him like a son, then he will have something in his wretched life.
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What makes you consider St. Valentine’s Day as a “Western Woke holiday”? Woke implies a fairly recent trend. It is manifestly unlike Gomorrhic events and has an ancient history, nothing like a recent trend. Even in its present focus on consumerism or capitalism: buying cards, candy, flowers, dinners, etc., it is hardly Gomorrhic. You can be faithful to your beliefs without being a prude. (Offered with respect and, wait for it, love.)
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Thanks for your comment, Oscar, I love you too! ❤
I mean, you're right, obviously. St. Valentine's Day is a much older American holiday, it pre-dates "woke" by many decades. One might even trace it back to Medieval European times, with all those flying naked cupids and stuff.
In addition to cards, candy, flowers to one's Tootsie, nowadays one may also gift the love of one's life with a machine gun, perhaps. You know what they say, candy only lasts a moment on the lips, and flowers soon wilt and die, but a machine gun is forever….
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All this is part of the climate of hatred cultivated for centuries by Western civilization, now after the social failure a return to original Christianity will be attempted, but it will be necessary to go back to the time before the indigenous genocide and black slavery. And that is a pending account that many do not wish to pay.
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I would think you would need to go back even farther than that. To pre-Constantine… Once Christianity became a state religion, then it became an institution of state repression and a source of wealth for the elites.
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