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MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 09:53 PM Sep 2014

What was that about Fascists in Kiev?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/02/crimea-not-need-gay-people-top-official


Crimea’s most senior official has said sexual minorities “have no chance” on the peninsula that Russia annexed from Ukraine in March.

Speaking about gay people during a Crimean government session on Tuesday, the region’s de facto leader Sergei Aksyonov said “we in Crimea do not need such people.”

In comments reported by the Russian news agencies Interfax and Itar-Tass, Aksyonov said that if the LGBT community tried to hold public gatherings, “our police and self-defence forces will react immediately and in three minutes will explain to them what kind of sexual orientation they should stick to.”

He added that Crimean children should be brought up with a “positive attitude to family and traditional values.”
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What was that about Fascists in Kiev? (Original Post) MNBrewer Sep 2014 OP
Which makes the fascists in Kiev less fascists how? Fred Sanders Sep 2014 #1
There AREN'T Fascists running the government in Kiev. MNBrewer Sep 2014 #2
Thank you Duckhunter935 Sep 2014 #3

MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
2. There AREN'T Fascists running the government in Kiev.
Tue Sep 2, 2014, 10:10 PM
Sep 2014

but they sure do run the show in Russia, and now Crimea.

The outright LIE that fascists run the Ukrainian government is one of the "big lies" being put forward by the fascists in Moscow and those who sympathize with them.

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