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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      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 dunno man, obviously I don’t like Russia for the dictatorship and propaganda aspect, but if we’re comparing hot German ladies to Russian ladies, someone should really call the Wagner boss for his opinion hahaha

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          Prigozhin is dead and old tho, I won’t trust his opinion in choosing a date material lol. All women are different, all have their preferences and kinks, and it’s not a question of a race or an ethnicity mostly, but your personal compatibility with this exact girl. Some russian women like what you ennjoy, some don’t, same with germanese.

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

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          Are you suggesting that the Russian military isn’t part of the Russian government, which is doing pogroms against gays?

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            I’m saying most places don’t integrate neo-Nazi units. I didn’t say anything about Russia.

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              Most countries aren’t fighting in an existential war either, sometimes one must take the allies they can get. You seem to be implying that Azov’s existence means something about Ukrainian national policy though, which is totally wrong. Zelensky is Jewish, and as others have pointed out to you Azov is shrinking and its members being integrated into other units:

              The regiment’s size was estimated to be around 2,500 combatants in 2017, and around 900 in 2022

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                sometimes one must take the allies they can get.

                it’s one thing to send them to the front lines with slingshots, it’s another entirely to let them poison your own ranks.

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                  You don’t murder your own troops in war, even if you don’t like them, I shouldn’t have to tell you this holy shit

                  You totally have the Russian mindset

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      It’s a bit unsettling how this statement resembles whataboutism often employed by Russian politicians to brush off any criticism

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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.