Recently, a rather remarkable story surfaced in the aggressor-controlled “Sevastopol media” related to the activities of the so-called “Center for Male Development,” whose “founder” since last year is Yevgeny Potapov, a native of Tula, and whose “director” is Dmitry Voznesensky, a resident of the Moscow region.
This organization positions itself as a community of “like-minded men” dedicated to “creating male development technologies that support men in clarity of thought, inner strength, and productivity,” and Potapov has been trying to make money from similar “trainings” in Russia for the past decade. It’s easy to guess that “male development technologies” refers to military training, under the guise of various “retreats” and “courses,” involving Oleg Kosolapov, a functionary of the “International center for combat and special training” called “Wolf,” Andrei Grebnev, “president of the Sevastopol knife throwing federation,” and a certain “knife fighting school” called “Tolpar.”
Also implicated in Potapov’s projects is businessman Gleb Yun, who has direct ties to Russian intelligence agencies and previously, under Sergei Shoigu, helped the Russian Ministry of Defense organize a militaristic youth show called “Race of Heroes.”
At the aforementioned “Center,” the boss’s assistants are called “sergeants,” practicing “strict discipline.”
Meanwhile, in Sevastopol, allegedly “about 10 people form the core of the organization, with about 30 men attending training sessions.”
The tragicomic nature of the situation was heightened by the circumstances under which the “Center” entered the public eye: a collective complaint was filed against it with the “investigative committee” by the wives and partners of “volunteers” recruited by Potapov, who, by a “strange coincidence,” were relatively well-off.
Formally, the women complain about “men’s refusal to fulfill their family obligations,” as well as “ritualized practices,” during which the men allegedly “use tambourines, wear animal skins,” and so on.
However, the real cause of the “women’s revolt” was so-called “financial abuse,” in which “volunteers” are allegedly subjected to massive demands for funds for the Center’s activities, while being persistently advised to “divorce” their women, even if only “on paper.”
It’s clear that, with the continued “exploitation” of “Center graduates” by the aggressor’s special services as “elite cannon fodder” at the front or elsewhere, their “ex-wives” will receive no support after the predictable “loss of a breadwinner,” and this, rather than any “dancing with a tambourine,” is clearly their concern.
However, something suggests that the aggressor’s punitive forces will “technically” ignore these complaints against the “Center.”
