A Russian Orthodox priest has praised the long-time American animated sitcom “The Simpsons” for the promotion of conventional household values ββand criticizes the Russia’s movie and tv trade for not presenting equally robust atomic households.
“For 40 years, 36 seasons and 790 episodes, the American sitcom ‘The Simpsons’ has proven a loving, robust household with three youngsters,” mentioned Father Yevgeny, head of the Yekaterinburg diocese quoted by native media.
“Russia that dies out didn’t create something comparable,” he mentioned on Friday throughout a ladies’s discussion board within the metropolis of Yekaterinburg.
Father Yevgeny’s statements have been a uncommon instance of public reward for a western cultural export in an more and more remoted and socially conservative Russia, which frequently accused the US and its allies to advertise “harmful neoliberal ideology”.
He contrasted characters from “The Simpsons” the longest-running script prime phrases collection within the US tv historical past with these present in Russian youngsters Cartoons Like “Smeshariki” and “Masha and the Bear”.
“They’re alone and completely satisfied, however that is not the way it works in life,” he mentioned, referring to Russian animated characters. “Our cartoons haven’t created an interesting picture of a mature and completely satisfied household for all their benefits and your directions.”
