Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.
Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.
Well we’ll well. I thought Russia said the nazis were in Ukraine. Huh. Funny, that.
both can be true
Sure it can. But that doesn’t mean it is.
Oh I’m sure if you look hard enough you’ll find one or two nazis hiding anywhere, even if they don’t identy as nazi or even know what it means.
But Russia, with its actions, have proven themselves to be an imperialist, nationalist, fascist piece of shit. And while both could be true, actions speak louder.
integrating the azov brigade into the national guard sounds like a bunch of Nazis are in the government to me.
Where’s Azov now, and where’s Rusich?
Yeah, it’s a problem. A threatened country integrated a fascist militia into its army. Yes, and that’s bad.
But the country as a whole does not like Nazis at all, and doesn’t vote for them.
“In the 2019 Ukrainian elections, the far-right nationalist electoral alliance, including Svoboda, National Corps, Right Sector, Azov Battalion, OUN, and Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, under-performed expectations. In the presidential election, its candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi received 1.6% of the vote, and in the parliamentary election, it was reduced to a single seat and saw its national vote fall to 2.15%, half of its result from 2014 and one-quarter of its result from 2012.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Ukraine
The country has a Jewish president and a Muslim cabinet minister. Sound like a Nazi country to you?
No, and you can fuck right off out of here. Nobody wants to hear your pro-terrorist bullshit.
I don’t make a distinction between the Nazis on one side of a border or the other.
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You need to study the subject more closely before stating that (: Slavik nazism is a deep rabbithole, but for the purpose of this article, I compare two governments, and one of them does indulge in that kind of rhetoric more than the other.
I don’t think either government is any better than the other. I don’t think either set of Nazis is any better than the other.
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your insults don’t change whether ukraine has a serious nazi problem. they formed a paramilitary group. that group has been intentionally integrated into the ukranian military. it’s not a lie.
i don’t think i’ve ever once excused russia or its government.
you should apologize.
Apologise, to you? Who are you? Do you even live here to begin with? How would you even know what a problem it was? From RussiaToday? What’s your argument?
Didn’t you know Russia has a lot of nazis too? Have you ever heard a name Tesak (rus. Cleaver)? Have you ever stood in our numerous protests agsinst the state along these guys like I did? Have you ever visited 2ch? How can you even fucking tell us about anything?
You know nothing and can fuck right off.
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Yes there are stupid people everywhere. In most places they aren’t literally running the country.
in most places they aren’t being integrated into the military.
Are you suggesting that the Russian military isn’t part of the Russian government, which is doing pogroms against gays?
I’m saying most places don’t integrate neo-Nazi units. I didn’t say anything about Russia.
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if a military is knowingly comprised of Nazis, that military shouldn’t exist.