Russia steps up attacks on LGBTQ+ people amid a climate of fear
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New legislation would ban gender-affirming care and ID changes, while Putin explores reinstating conversion therapy...

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/935598

Hello,

I want to learn and understand why Russia is doing this? From what i have read on other sites the laws against allowing LGBT people have only been getting stronger, meanwhile in CPC the society is moving slowly more progressively in some ways on the topic of LGBT, like they don’t target them like what is happening in russia.

I’d really like to see this topic and article discussed.

What are other lemmygrad communities for discussing topics like this in the future?

Thank you.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    One could argue about the “Third Rome” theory, if you subscribe to that, that says Imperial Russia was the logical continuation of the Roman Empire, due to Ivan the Great marrying Constantine XI’s niece Sophia. By that logic, after the Ottomans sacked “Rome” (Constantinople, but the residents called themselves Romans; we call them ‘the Byzantine Empire’ so we don’t have to admit Muslims took down the Roman Empire), that left Ivan, by marriage, the last remaining caesar/czar, a title that was passed down to his and Sophia’s heirs.

    Perhaps Putin is trying to call back to Imperial Russia to entrench himself. Perhaps he just wants to score points with the Russian Orthodox Church and we’re overthinking it.

    Or, my guess, his advisors said it would please the oligarchs to tacitly approve his continued capitalist rule.