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Russian here. Yeah, I heard about it yesterday. The orthodox church were especially excited about this. In my opinion it's another Putin's political mistake. A sign of short-sightedness and a failure of ideological struggle. It feels like they don't realize at all that this is exactly the kind of thing the west expects from them. Not to mention the problems this may create for the people. Russian capitalists are so disconnected from reality that they don't realize that following clericalism and right-wing politics is a path to failure. And not just for capitalist goverment. The international imperialism are getting stronger because of their mistakes, because of their capitalist reactionary nature and progressive tendencies are weakening. We need opposition to the liberal lies, chauvinism and anti-communism that is represented by the ukraine goverment and its owners. And if that opposition is not present, then international imperialism is already at an advantage. Such a shame. Another evidence that we need a communist powerful state to stand up for the interests of the people.
I thought about that too... Aren't you strengthening rainbow imperialism by doing this sort of bullshit? You're essentially giving out ammo like candy to western liberals who are now going to screech even louder - "muh LGBT rights in Ruzzia!". At the same time, you're missing out on the opportunity to say "look, the West is full of shit, they only pretend to care about gay rights, but we here don't do these empty gestures". Not to mention that innocent LGBT people will get hurt because of this by being a political pawn.
Comrade Lenin said it 100+ years ago about Jewish people - "they are not the enemy, the capitalists are". A century passes - the game is still the same, they just found a new group to attack.
It's because "LGBT is imperialism!!1!" is just an excuse. The real reason they are doing this is, simply enough, because Russia's leadership is very conservative. Conservatives gonna conservative, they just need to present their target minority as a ploy from the enemy and voilà, persecution justified.