Deputy mayor of the city of Sumy Maxim Galitsky published on Facebook a photo of prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen with triangles sewn upside down on their clothes (in the concentration camps of the Third Reich, such pink triangles designated homo- and bisexual men), which he signed “LGBT pride of a healthy person,” reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
This was reported by the Information Portal of the Kharkov Human Rights Group.
“LGBT pride of a healthy person. I believe that the time is not far off when the so-called prides will look like this,” he added such a caption to the mentioned photo.
According to the portal, after about an hour, Facebook deleted the publication, which outraged its author: “But what about “Every person has the right to freedom of opinion and free expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”? The question is rhetorical,” the chauvinist official was indignant.
“An official who calls for sending people to concentration camps complains about the lack of democracy on the social network, calling the removal of his chauvinistic calls “ethical relativism” and “the moral decline of European civilization,” despite the fact that Facebook is an American company,” the report says. message.
In his comments, he clarified that he is not calling for the restoration of concentration camps, since, in his opinion, their functions are now performed by penal colonies. He insists on the criminalization of same-sex relationships and their “propaganda,” citing as examples the legislation of the USSR and post-war Germany (where homosexuality remained a crime until 1969).
The website of the Sumy City Council notes that Maxim Galitsky from February 2015 to July 2016 worked in the department of communications and information policy of the Sumy City Council. After that, he headed the department for urban design, and from September 27, 2017, he was appointed deputy city mayor Alexander Lysenko.
Currently, there are no corresponding messages or posts on the page of the deputy mayor of the city of Sumy.