Gennady Onishchenko was fired on Wednesday. His words of wisdom will be missed.
This is Gennady Onishchenko. Until he was let go on Wednesday, he spent many days giving Russians health advice. Officially, his title was head of the Federal Consumer Protection Service.
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He was like a grandmother to the nation, speaking about everything from the dangers of air conditioning to the intellectual capacities of pigs. What follows are some of his craziest statements.
“Crows are feathered wolves that we must mercilessly destroy,” he once declared, in the midst of the bird flu epidemic of 2006.
Nor is he fond of mice: "Today, unfortunately, humanity remains in a struggle with this animal, since the mouse is much older than the human. When our ancestors walked on four legs, mice were already corporate animals.”
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