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.

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    8 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.

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      8 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.

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        8 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.

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          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.