The State Duma Ethics Commission will evaluate Igor Lebedev’s statements about disabled children. Zhirinovsky supported Lebedev, calling for saving humanity from disabled children. Why is Zhirinovsky in a wheelchair?
Statements by State Duma Deputy Speaker from the LDPR Igor Lebedev about disabled children caused a storm of indignation. Zhirinovsky’s son tried to justify himself, but, to put it mildly, it was unconvincing, and he refused to apologize at all. We can only guess where the line is that separates “private polemics” from calls for cannibalism and the practices of the Third Reich.
Despite his advanced age, Vladimir Zhirinovsky remains one of the headliners of Russian public politics, not inferior in terms of brightness and scandalousness even to show business stars. His Sunday participation is further proof of this.
However, journalists and political strategists who dealt with Zhirinovsky know that his public image and true nature are... With the cameras turned off and the public absent, the leader of the Liberal Democrats behaves quite intelligently.
Like most Russian parties, the LDPR belongs to leader-type structures and its leader has not changed for decades. But sooner or later it will change. Using the example of foreign leaders-type parties, we can conclude that voters are quite favorable towards the children of famous politicians as their successors.
And it is likely that the son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, who bears his mother’s surname, will lead the LDPR after its current leader retires for one reason or another.
It won't be easy for the successor. Zhirinovsky is a notorious brawler and an undeniable charismatic man who knows how to attract attention to himself and get away with it, whether we are talking about beating a woman or simply being rude to pregnant women, natives of the Caucasus, residents of the Urals, political and historical figures(both domestic and foreign).
But if no one has yet been able to instill charisma medically, then rudeness can be learned.
At the same time, Lebedev is not a private person, but a deputy chairman of the State Duma and, possibly, the future leader of one of the largest parties in the country. His words are not just hot air, no matter how hard he tries to declare his statement a “private polemic.” It is not far from statements about the moral duty of women to abort children with visible pathologies to a ban on the birth of those who do not meet certain criteria. In other words, before eugenics, the accompanying racial hygiene and other features of the policy of the Third Reich.
Many of Lebedev’s colleagues understand this very well.
“From the point of view of a person, a man and a father, such an opinion cannot be uttered, much less brought into public space. But it’s also obscene as a politician. Parents of children with physical abnormalities Such statements can hurt – they try to believe in the best until the last moment,” said deputy Oksana Pushkina.
“The deputy has no right to talk nonsense. This is unfortunately the position modern world, with roots in eugenics. And it is a continuation of a certain liberal philosophy. When they say that it is easier to have an abortion than to give birth to a child if he has some kind of defect,” said deputy Vitaly Milonov, recalling that Lebedev’s father is an elderly man and needs constant medical care.
“He doesn’t want to apply these words to his dad. It would be inhumane. We would have condemned him if he had said about his dad that it would be better for him to die,” Milonov noted.
Zhirinovsky himself is reportedly aware of his son’s statements, but has not yet commented on them. I wonder if the thought occurred to him that at one time it was worth insisting on an abortion?
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky publicly supported the position of his son, State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev, who called for preventing the birth of disabled children. TASS reports this.
“All over the world there are pathologies, changes in human nature. This is how humanity will collapse. We must save humanity. Including [by] allowing doctors to identify [pathology] and recommend [terminating pregnancy],” the party leader told reporters.
According to Zhirinovsky, “all doctors around the world are able to determine what a child will be like and are able to determine his fate [for developmental pathologies].”
“The mother herself decides whether to give birth or not. But I am sure that in most cases [of pathologies] an artificial termination of pregnancy occurs, and in the next pregnancy a child is born healthy child“, he told reporters, adding that if a disabled child has already been born, “he should live.”
“If you are so compassionate, take a disabled child from orphanage And...
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The press secretary of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the politician is aware of the statements of his son, State Duma Deputy Igor Lebedev, about disabled children, media reports citing the politician’s representative.
According to the representative of the LDPR leader, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is aware of his son’s statement about children with disabilities, a post about which he published on his blog.
Let us remind you that we're talking about that a little earlier, the son of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, published an entry on his blog, the essence of which was that it is better not to be born to disabled children, which was also reported by the Nation news agency...
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LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky commented on the statement of his son, State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev, about the meaninglessness of the lives of disabled children.
Previously, Lebedev attracted public attention with a harsh statement about children with disabilities. The deputy on social networks asked why such children are “allowed to be born,” noting that their lives become sheer torture.
These words caused a storm of indignation on the part of many Internet users.
Commenting on the scandal in which his son was at the center, Vladimir Zhirinovsky noted that he considers it necessary to “save humanity” from pathologies that often turn out to be congenital.
According to the leader of the LDPR, first of all, the fight against such pathologies should be carried out through diagnosis possible diseases the child is still in the womb.
The permanent leader of the Liberal Democrats emphasized that doctors should inform pregnant women about fetal pathologies,...
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State Duma deputy from the LDPR, son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, said on social networks that it is better for disabled children not to be born. He believes that for them all life is torture, and reminded that modern medicine determines pathologies in advance. Lebedev's post caused widespread discussion among social media users. Some were furious at such a statement, while others, on the contrary, supported the parliamentarian’s position.
Photo: RIA Novosti / Vitaly Belousov
State Duma deputy, son of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, caused a wave of indignation on social networks with his position on disabled children. After watching a video with an armless girl, he said that it would be better for such babies not to be born at all. “Why are such children allowed to be born, because this is a martyr, not life?! Modern medicine determines the pathology in advance,” the parliamentarian wrote on Twitter.
His colleague in the Duma, deputy Sergei Boyarsky, responded to Lebedev’s post. He called this position “disgusting.” But it's not...
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Elmira Knutsen, the mother of the girl Vasilina, who was born without arms, responded to the words of State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev, who said that children with such defects should not be allowed to be born.
“I don’t know how to react to things like the words of this politician. For a believer, every person is God’s creation, created for a wonderful life. And if someone is sure that people descended from monkeys, then the position that the fittest survives, “normal. Probably, many people think so,” the woman said.
She spoke about her two adopted children with musculoskeletal disorders. Currently, Knutsen is trying to make a wheelchair ramp near his entrance, but the neighbors refuse to give up one parking space for this.
“For them, parking is more important than the convenience of a family with two disabled people. This bothers me, not the words of some deputy. This makes me sad, and I just don’t know how to explain such things to children,” she added.. .
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Vladimir Zhirinovsky had to answer for the words of his son. Photo: Vladimir Andreev © URA.RU
LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky actually supported his son, State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev, who wrote on Twitter under a video with a girl who has no arms that such children should not be born.
Zhirinovsky, commenting on his son’s words, noted that medicine can find out about a child’s pathology even before his birth. “In most cases, an artificial termination of pregnancy occurs, and in the next pregnancy the child will be healthy. We must proceed from a different point: if someone is very compassionate, take a disabled child from an orphanage and raise him. I don’t see a queue behind this,” said the leader of the LDPR, his words were quoted by RIA Novosti. At the same time, Zhirinovsky made a reservation that if a disabled child was born, then he must live.
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LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky supported the position of his son, State Duma Deputy Speaker from the Liberal Democratic Party Igor Lebedev, who spoke in favor of terminating a pregnancy if a pathology is detected. TASS reported this on Wednesday, September 13.
According to Zhirinovsky, pathologies can lead people to destruction in the future. “We need to save humanity,” the politician told reporters. He emphasized that doctors can identify fetal development disorders during a woman’s pregnancy.
“The mother herself decides whether to give birth or not. But I am sure that in most cases (when pathologies are detected - approx.) an artificial termination of pregnancy occurs, and in the next pregnancy a healthy child is born,” Zhirinovsky noted. At the same time, there is no question that a disabled child born should not live, the politician emphasized.
“If you are so compassionate, take a disabled child from an orphanage and raise him. I didn’t notice a big queue,” he added...
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Moscow, September 12. The son of LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Igor Lebedev, who holds the post of Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, found himself at the center of a scandal due to words about disabled children.
The reason was a video of an armless girl who is forced to eat with her feet, posted on Twitter by State Secretary of the Central Bank Alexander Torshin.
“Why are such children allowed to be born, because this is torture, not life?! Modern medicine determines pathology in advance,” Lebedev commented on the video.
At this point, another State Duma deputy, Sergei Boyarsky, joined the discussion and reproached his colleague for his “disgusting position.” In response, Lebedev stated that “It’s disgusting when people like that suffer, and not...
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Statements by State Duma Deputy Speaker from the LDPR Igor Lebedev about disabled children caused a storm of indignation. Zhirinovsky’s son tried to justify himself, but, to put it mildly, it was unconvincing, and he refused to apologize at all. We can only guess where the line is that separates “private polemics” from calls for cannibalism and the practices of the Third Reich.
Despite his advanced age, Vladimir Zhirinovsky remains one of the headliners of Russian public politics, not inferior in terms of brightness and scandalousness even to show business stars. His Sunday participation in the Election Night online marathon is further confirmation of this.
However, journalists and political strategists who have dealt with Zhirinovsky know that his public image and true nature are not at all the same thing. With the cameras turned off and the public absent, the leader of the Liberal Democrats behaves quite intelligently.
Like most Russian parties, the LDPR belongs to leader-type structures and the leader in it is not...
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Leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky publicly supported the position of his son, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Igor Lebedev, who called for preventing the birth of disabled children. TASS reports this.
“All over the world there are pathologies, changes in human nature. This is how humanity will collapse. We must save humanity. Including [by] allowing doctors to identify [pathology] and recommend [terminating pregnancy],” the party leader told reporters.
According to Zhirinovsky, “all doctors around the world are able to determine what a child will be like and are able to determine his fate [for developmental pathologies].”
“The mother herself decides whether to give birth or not. But I am sure that in most cases [of pathologies] an artificial termination of pregnancy occurs, and in the next pregnancy a healthy child is born,” he told reporters, adding that if a disabled child has already been born, “he should live.”
“If you are so compassionate, take a disabled child from an orphanage and raise him. I didn’t notice a big queue,” Zhirinovsky emphasized.
Earlier, the deputy chairman of the State Duma, the son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and a deputy from his party, Igor Lebedev, left public outrage at a video posted online showing a one-year-old disabled girl Vasilina being raised in a foster family in Moscow.
“Why are such children allowed to be born, because this is torture, not life?! Modern medicine determines pathology in advance,” Lebedev wrote, then adding that, from his point of view, “it is disgusting when such people suffer and do not live.”
The politician refused to apologize for his words, insisting that they were justified. “This was a private correspondence, albeit on a public level,” he told the radio station “Moscow Speaks”. Lebedev later clarified his position by publishing detailed explanations on his blog. In particular, he said that he recognizes the need for the state to care for people with disabilities, including congenital pathologies- but at the same time he called not to force, but with the help of propaganda to induce mothers to have an abortion at the risk of giving birth to a terminally ill child.
As the portal Miloserdie.ru was told at the Moscow City Association of Parents of Disabled Children and Persons with Disabilities since Childhood (MGARDI), they are currently preparing an open appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to accept in connection with Lebedev’s prank necessary measures. The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Moscow Region, Ksenia Mishonova, also announced her intention to appeal to the State Duma Committee on Ethics in connection with the incident.
The Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Moscow Region, Ksenia Mishonova, called the statements of State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev “defiant and inhumane”; today she will send an appeal to the State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics with a demand to assess the situation. Earlier, Mr. Lebedev commented on a video of a girl with a disability on social networks, asking the question “why are such children allowed to be born,” because “modern medicine determines pathology in advance.” The Duma commission told Kommersant that they are ready to consider the appeal of the children's ombudsman.
“Why are such children allowed to be born, because this is a martyr, not life?! Modern medicine determines pathology in advance,” State Duma Deputy Speaker Igor Lebedev commented on September 11 on a video posted on social networks in which a two-year-old girl without arms eats, helping herself with her legs. He then clarified that “it’s disgusting when people like this don’t live, but suffer,” and later posted a post on social networks, explaining his position: “It’s clear that the state should not interfere, for example, force an abortion. It is also clear that the state should take every possible care of people with disabilities, including those with congenital pathologies. But it is just as clear that such births should not be encouraged. That is, we need to work at the propaganda level.” Let us note that the girl was born in March 2015 in the Sverdlovsk region, her mother abandoned her, now she is growing up in a foster family; there are four children in this family, two of whom are disabled.
Mr. Lebedev’s words caused a wave of criticism in the media and social networks. On Tuesday he told RIA Novosti that he “has nothing to apologize for”:
“Who should I apologize to and for what?... I didn’t insult anyone, especially this girl. Wonderful child, wonderful family, God bless them all. I expressed my opinion, but I did not offend anyone."
On Wednesday, also responding to the RIA Novosti agency, Mr. Lebedev said that he had contacted the girl’s mother: “On Friday she will come to my office, we will meet with her and with the help of all the resources that the faction has (LDPR.- “Kommersant”) and deputies, through the Moscow representative office we will resolve the issue of urgently installing a ramp in the entrance where she lives.” He also stated that he could install a ramp “at his own expense”: “Mom has become a hostage to this situation, she will come to me and we will talk: but in any case, I did not want to offend or offend her in any way.”
“You see, he not only offended her, he expressed the position that it is possible to kill children in the womb if there are violations,” Ksenia Mishonova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Moscow Region, commented on the situation in a conversation with Kommersant. “And to kill on a special basis - this is genocide. If we allow the destruction of people on at least one basis, then nothing will stop calling for destruction on some other basis. We must stop this now, at the initial stage.”
Ms. Mishonova said that she had already written an appeal to the State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics with a demand to evaluate the deputy’s position: “It will be sent today.” The Children's Ombudsman noted that the work on organizing accessible environment for people with disabilities, the introduction of inclusive education, when children with special needs study in general education schools, organization rehabilitation activities, spa treatment"vain if not formed public opinion": "Inclusion is not ramps or resources; inclusion is primarily in people's heads. How did he (Igor Lebedev.- “Kommersant”), a person who has power, authority, the right to conduct legislative activities, instead of creating laws that would protect and help us raise these children, socialize them in society, make them full members of it, calls for genocide?” Mrs. Mishonova complained that “there are precedents when parents are against special children studying in the classroom with their children”: “Society is not yet tolerant enough towards such children and such people, since children grow up sooner or later.” She also recalled that on May 29, 2017, the President of Russia signed a decree on the “Decade of Childhood,” which should follow “the results achieved during the implementation of the national strategy of action in the interests of children for 2012-2017.”
The Children's Ombudsman also called Mr. Lebedev's proposal to install a ramp “an attempt to pay off”: “What ramp? Let him make it for himself. Now he is afraid of losing his position. And I believe that he has no right to occupy it. How does a person with such a worldview occupy such a position?”
The Chairman of the State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics, Otari Arshba, told Kommersant that “when the statement comes, it will be considered”: “If you are asking about my personal attitude to what happened, I would make a similar comment (about children.- “Kommersant”) didn’t.”
The son of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and State Duma deputy from the LDPR faction Igor Lebedev wrote on Twitter that disabled children should not be born because it is “torment, not life.” The deputy's statement caused heated discussion and a wave of criticism online.
The debate about whether disabled children have the right to life flared up after Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexander Torshin retweeted a video of a little girl who is missing arms.
Lebedev commented on this retweet, saying that he does not understand why children with disabilities are “allowed to be born”:
A discussion on this topic flared up online, and many media outlets paid attention to it. However, some social network users agreed with Lebedev.
Others were outraged by the deputy’s words.
Earlier we reported that a post about disabled children caused a scandal online. The scandal erupted due to a publication by Facebook user Anna Lobacheva about children with disabilities and inclusive education. She wrote that in her scientific work actively opposed inclusive education and training of specialists to work with disabled children. Despite this, she received an offer to work at a school where children with and without disabilities study together.
We also know that a scandal broke out in the Volgograd region after a professor at one of the Volgograd universities used the terms “mentally retarded,” “inferior,” and “educable” in relation to children with Down syndrome. In addition, the scientist accused children with disabilities of taking away funding from ordinary children.