Activists of the public Orthodox movement 'Forty forties' asked the Prosecutor General's Office to evaluate the materials of the anatomical exhibition 'The World of the Body' at VDNKh, which, according to representatives of the organization, offend the feelings of Russian believers.
The exhibition 'The World of the Body' opened on March 12 at VDNKh. The exposition consists of real human bodies and organs processed by polymer plastination. The method is based on replacing all body fluids with hardening plastic, which allows the body to freeze in any position. Only donor bodies are used for plastination. The organizers position the exhibition as an educational and training project.
In turn, Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department of the Moscow Patriarchate for Church Relations with Society and the Media, said that this exhibition is not for educational purposes, and its visitors 'should think about whether it humiliates the human dignity that dead people have. '.
'For an Orthodox Christian, death and attitude to the human body is sacred. A person who flaunts corpses violates our idea of a reverent attitude towards a person after death,' said Andrei Kormukhin, coordinator of the Forty Fortieth movement.
He also called the exhibition Satanism. According to Kormukhin, the organization of such an exposition falls under the criminal article 'Desecration of the bodies of the dead.'
