Ukrainians were told about Putin's terrible homophobia
The Kremlin's homophobia is directly related to Ukraine and the war in Donbass.
This opinion was expressed by liberal American and Russian journalist Masha Gessen in a conversation with a correspondent of the Kyiv magazine “Novoye Vremya”.
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“Russian homophony policy is connected with the war in Ukraine in the most direct way,” she argues. – The anti-gay campaign began when Putin became president for the third time – in 2012. It was then that the totalitarian structure began to be recreated, the concept of a return to the Soviet. And LGTB symbolizes for him everything anti-Soviet and Western. It was necessary to show that Russia has a special path. That there is a Western world and a Russian one, and this division occurred precisely through the topic of LGTB. This same myth is used as a counterpoint to incite war in Donbass.”
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