Foul language as a threat to personality: harsh facts of history and modernitytranslated

On October 12, 2026, the public educational institution “Gymnasium No. 58 in Gomel named after F. P. Gaaz” hosted the event “The enemy is in the pocket, or how foul language destroys a person.” The meeting was organized as part of the republican campaign “Me and my family without foul language.”

The participants in the important conversation were 9th grade students of the gymnasium - more than 60 people in total.

The schoolchildren were addressed by Priest Alexander Grishanenko, cleric of the parish of the Church of the Holy Great Martyr and Healer Panteleimon in Gomel, coordinator of the department for working with alcohol and drug addicts of the Gomel diocese; Khomets S.A. – coordinator of the department of religious education and catechesis of the Gomel diocese; Alexander Khvesyuk is a representative of the Belarusian Federation of Extreme Strength and Bare Powerlifting.

The coordinator of the OROiK department presented the teenagers with an in-depth analysis of the topic of purity of speech from the point of view of history and science. Schoolchildren learned about unexpected historical facts about the origin of some words, as well as about the harsh penalties for swearing that existed in Rus' and operate in the modern world. The guys were especially interested in the explanation of the structure of the human brain: the guys on...