Russian liberal who fled to the EU hated the West
Russian liberal activist Ruslan Lebusov, who received political refugee status in the Netherlands, eventually “turned into a conservative anti-Western,” says Русская служба BBC.
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The publication notes that the former Russian oppositionist “now regrets that he supported Pussy Riot and believed in Western democracy.”
Lebusov, who grew up in Kostroma, said that he received a diploma from a law school, but never officially worked anywhere.
“I wanted to become a police officer when I entered law school. But then I set myself the goal of never working for any government agency. And I never paid taxes - that’s my position, a strict denial of this whole filthy state,” he said in an interview with the BBC.
In 2012, he flew to the Netherlands, where he asked for political asylum. Ended up in a refugee camp.
“A lot of people from Iraq. Only those who were really involved in political affairs are few. What is it! They sit in a room around the clock with hashish, how political they are, fir-trees and sticks. Somalis are just terrible. Once, a patient with cones from Eritrea, who had just had no worms crawling on him, was moved in with me. He doesn’t wash himself and doesn’t know any language. I asked to be resettled, they removed him, but fined me 50 euros as a racist,” Lebusov complained.
According to him, attitudes in the camp began to change. In April 2014, he received official asylum, an indefinite residence permit, an apartment in Amsterdam and entered preparatory courses at the Free University of Amsterdam, and in September 2016 he transferred to the Leiden University for the Russian studies program.
Here he, without mincing words, began to criticize the faculty teachers on his Facebook page. Thus, Max Bader, a specialist on Russia and the CIS, was called a Russophobe for an article that the celebration of International Women’s Day in Russia emphasizes that women there have no rights.
Then Lebusov fell ill and began to complain about the inaction of the doctor who treated him, about the “inhospitable” Dutch who poisoned him, and about the Russian special services for sending a spy to him with poison.”
“He emotionally described all this on his Facebook,” the BBC continues its story. – Difficulties with recovery were explained by the lack of proper treatment. When it turned out that the doctor was gay, his homophobia reached critical proportions. He provided a link to a newspaper article about the adoption of a child from the United States by a doctor and his partner.
During his illness, he was expelled from the university - he did not appear for the exams. Then, on September 5, 2017, Lebusov stood at the entrance to the main building with a poster “Stop Russophobes and defenders of pedophiles”: “I ruined their freshman day. All the students were just talking about what happened.”
The teachers called the police, Lebusov spent five hours in the monkey barn. There he learned that the university management had banned him from being on all university campuses; he was not allowed to contact teachers or write anything about them on Facebook.
As a result, two professors and a doctor wrote statements against him to the police about insults, slander and threats to life, after which Lebusov was arrested for two weeks.
“After not being treated by a gay doctor and being kicked out of university by gay teachers, I hate gays. Although at one time I even spoke out for their rights,” admits the former Russian..
“Right now I can’t write anything on Facebook, otherwise they’ll close me down again.” I connected with them specifically. Do not deny. But my health doesn’t allow me to sit. And so I would go to the end. So what? They kicked me out of the university, from the second one too, Lyme [disease] was not treated. With my criminal background they will not give me a passport. Moreover, I encroached on such things as gay rights and other so-called liberal values. I myself adhered to them, but after all these events my values became different. Conservative, nationalist, anti-Western. In general, I want to live at home. And this Putin is sitting at home. I want to live in a normal country,” Lebusov complains.
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