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.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      Sure it can. But that doesn’t mean it is.

      Oh I’m sure if you look hard enough you’ll find one or two nazis hiding anywhere, even if they don’t identy as nazi or even know what it means.

      But Russia, with its actions, have proven themselves to be an imperialist, nationalist, fascist piece of shit. And while both could be true, actions speak louder.

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        integrating the azov brigade into the national guard sounds like a bunch of Nazis are in the government to me.

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          Yeah, it’s a problem. A threatened country integrated a fascist militia into its army. Yes, and that’s bad.

          But the country as a whole does not like Nazis at all, and doesn’t vote for them.

          “In the 2019 Ukrainian elections, the far-right nationalist electoral alliance, including Svoboda, National Corps, Right Sector, Azov Battalion, OUN, and Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, under-performed expectations. In the presidential election, its candidate Ruslan Koshulynskyi received 1.6% of the vote, and in the parliamentary election, it was reduced to a single seat and saw its national vote fall to 2.15%, half of its result from 2014 and one-quarter of its result from 2012.”

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_Ukraine

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

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            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.

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      No, and you can fuck right off out of here. Nobody wants to hear your pro-terrorist bullshit.

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      You need to study the subject more closely before stating that (: Slavik nazism is a deep rabbithole, but for the purpose of this article, I compare two governments, and one of them does indulge in that kind of rhetoric more than the other.

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        I don’t think either government is any better than the other. I don’t think either set of Nazis is any better than the other.

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          Because you don’t live here and you are stupid. Not by IQ or disability, you intentionally choose to be stupid. And to carry the lie fed to you. It’s easy because you have nothing to lose. Grow up bitch, you can stop simulating a kremlinbot as you aren’t even paid for that. Wake up.

          Ukraine as a state is fucked up and corrupted - any ukrainian I know would say that. But they are healing and facing towards eurointegration. The other state shakes hands with Iran, North Korea, Talibs. It says enough.

          I’m sorry for being a bit rude. I’m just drunk and angry and tired of foreigners portraying my country as anything but a prison it is. Who’d even want to be born in it?

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            your insults don’t change whether ukraine has a serious nazi problem. they formed a paramilitary group. that group has been intentionally integrated into the ukranian military. it’s not a lie.

            i don’t think i’ve ever once excused russia or its government.

            you should apologize.

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      Yes there are stupid people everywhere. In most places they aren’t literally running the country.