Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement 'extremist'
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Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

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.

  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    121·
    11 months ago

    The country has a Jewish president and a Muslim cabinet minister. Sound like a Nazi country to you?

    identity politics are boring. there were Jewish collaborators in the third Reich.

    • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      In most cases, Jews who chose to collaborate with Nazis did so to guarantee their personal survival, which distinguished them from most other ethnic groups who collaborated with Nazi Germany. It’s not exactly a fair comparison.

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        111·
        11 months ago

        but you see that identity is not a preventative for fascism, right? I don’t think the president of Ukraine is any more fascist than Biden or Obama. but I also take a pretty dim view of them.

        • Jonna@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          While voting is a necessary but insufficient way to combat fascism, 96% of voting Ukrainians choosing to not support fascism is a good indicator that fascism is NOT on the agenda in Ukraine. A fascist coup by that 2% supporting fascism would be opposed by the vast majority of Ukraine.

          You completely ignore that fact with your hardon for attacking the identity of persons chosen by the Ukrainians.

          Edit to explain: I made no argument on what Zelinsky as a Jew or the Muslim cabinet member would be politically, which would be identity politics. This statement of fact (Zelinsky is Jewish) was relevant to the political preferences of the Ukrainian people. Fascists don’t choose Jews and Muslims to represent them.

          Zelinsky is a pretty terrible neoliberal, and I’m not actually a fan. But I am a fan a national self determination. So was Lenin.

          • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            11·
            11 months ago

            You completely ignore that fact with your hardon for attacking the identity of persons chosen by the Ukrainians.

            this is a spurious accusation and you should apologize

        • player2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          I see your point and it stands. Certainly anyone can lead a country down the wrong path and we don’t know their true motives.

          My point was mainly that the power structure is seemingly reversed, so the incentives don’t make as much sense.