Recently, a high-profile Russian public figure, Boris Korchevnikov, posted his theory about how Russia can increase its ethnic population and encourage the creation and growth of traditional families. Boris is the General Director and General Producer of Russia’s first public Orthodox TV channel, Spas TV, and a member of the Public Chamber of Russia.

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In his post, he references Fr. Dmitry Smirnov, who was an outspoken and influential priest who advocated for traditional morals and the defence of the traditional family. Translated below is the original post on Telegram.

This week was an anniversary: 2 years without Father Dmitry Smirnov.

 I recall one strong word of his, as if, an instruction for the rebirth of Russia: ‘I take every divorce that happens in our country as my own pain. I know that up to half of our children are fatherless. I know that 90% of our men don’t pay child support. They leave their wives with five or six children. It’s a product of being raised by our television and media and our variety.’

I will never forget Lyudmila Zykina’s expression: ‘Why, I have been married four times, and I have a good relationship with all my husbands.’ She’s been married four times and never had a family. And she’s proud of that?

And she, a person popular with the people, tells the whole world about this new norm. And a hundred years ago the norm was family. In order to bring this back, I have been dealing with this issue for five years now, without any tools other than my blog and a program on a satellite channel. If I were Putin, I would change the situation radically in ten years. But I am not Putin.

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How? Very simply. I would invite all the channel CEOs and say, ‘Do you guys like your work?’ – ‘I do.’ – ‘From now on, we shouldn’t have any films that show the destruction of the family. The second thing is that you should definitely create other programs instead of programs like Let’s Get Married. You will find the best, the strongest and the most beautiful families and you will talk about them, you will talk about the love of children for their parents, and grandfathers for their grandchildren and you will not show a single program that degrades the family, ever.’

I would round up the whole variety show, all the songwriters, and say: ‘From now on you will not sing about love for 15 minutes, but only songs that tell the heart that a girl wants to get married and a young man wants to get married and have five sons and three daughters. You will do that then we will let you on our state television and we will even pay you bonuses.’ Then I’ll go to the Minister of Culture and say: ‘Exhibitions – only glorifying family and motherhood.’

Then I’ll go to the Minister of Education: ‘The first major subject you will teach in schools will be the family. You will talk about why mankind is made up of men and women, why it is created by God, and what the meaning of this is.

You will invite the fathers of families with many children to school. Every schoolchild will have to know that Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, in addition to creating his great table, was the seventeenth child in the family. And so about every figure of Russian culture.

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You will engage in fervent pro-family information in support of families, family-oriented and friendly content but without brash pressure, calmly, lovingly, and judiciously. Variety, school, television. And we’ve already agreed on the Internet – we’re shutting it off for users under 21.’

And in 10 years, Russia will change from the old nation – now our average age is 40 – into a nation with an average age of 10. It will be a country of children. It will be filled with the noise of children. We need families with many children, we need not 140 million people, as we have now, but 600 million then we will be a great country. Then of these 600 million will be born Leskov, Tchaikovsky, Pushkin, Rozanov, and Gagarin. Everything can be solved. How else would a country be born in the current war?