{"id":29620,"date":"2022-11-02T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=29620"},"modified":"2022-11-02T13:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T10:38:49","slug":"no-age-limit-for-people-404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/no-age-limit-for-people-404\/","title":{"rendered":"No Age Limit for People-404"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tried-and-true recipe for retaining power when discontent is on the rise in the country is \u201ca short victorious war\u201d. If that war turns out to be neither short nor victorious, then the next option is to assign guilt to a minority and fight against that minority as if it were a universal evil.<\/span><\/p>\n

Suffice it to recall Goebbels\u2019s famous <\/span>1937 speech: \u201cWe will fearlessly point to the Jew… Look, here is the enemy of the planet, the destroyer of civilizations, a parasite among peoples, the son of Chaos, the incarnation of evil, a demon reaping degeneration on mankind.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Russian State Duma deputies, who are currently occupied with adopting a new l<\/span>aw banning the \u201cpromotion and acceptance of non-traditional sexual relations,\u201d have never lacked this kind of fearlessness. This brand new law will ban people of any age from speaking openly about their sexual orientation and gender identity, to all intents and purposes making them \u201cbanned people\u201d again.<\/span><\/p>\n

In speeches made by the authors of the law, spin doctors, and even Putin himself, the LGBT+ topic is inextricably connected with the war in Ukraine: In this construct, equal rights for LGBT+ people are presented as the quintessence of what it is about Western ideology that is foreign to Russia, and victory in the war, which is supposedly being waged against the West, demands a total ban on the mention of LGBT+ issues in the media and cultural and public space. <\/span><\/p>\n

In his speech about the annexation of four Ukrainian regions, Putin<\/a> talks about \u201ct<\/span>he battlefield to which fate and history has called us,\u201d about protecting children and grandchildren from \u201censlavement, from monstrous experiments designed to cripple their conscience and spirit,\u201d and about protection from \u201cperversions that lead to degradation and extinction.\u201d Here he\u2019s talking about gender and the proverbial parents numbers one, two, and even three. <\/span><\/p>\n

Pyotr Tolstoy<\/a>: \u201cIf we look at the promotion and acceptance of non-traditional sexual relations as a tool of hybrid war (and no one has any doubt about that today), then this is dangerous not just for our children, but for our entire society. This law protects future generations from the promotion of perversions. At the decisive stage of our battle, we stood up for our traditional family, moral, and religious values. The only result of this can be victory; we have no other options. Russia\u2019s future is on the line.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

State Duma Chair Vyacheslav Volodin<\/a>: \u201cWe are protecting against the darkness that is spreading pervasively throughout the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

State Duma Deputy Chair Anna Kuznetsova<\/a>: \u201cLGBT+ is the most effective tool for destroying our country.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

State Duma Deputy Khinshteyn<\/a> spoke most explicitly about the connection between the war and the fight against LGBT+: \u201cThe special operation is underway not just on the battlefield, but also in people\u2019s conscience, in their minds and spirits. Today we are essentially fighting so that Russia does not have \u2018parent number one,\u2019 \u2018parent number two,\u2019 and \u2018parent number three\u2019 instead of one mama and one papa. This yet again demonstrates our civilizational conflict with the West.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Some journalists have been surprised by such head-on logic\u00a0\u2013 this can be seen in such headlines as \u201cDeputy Khinshteyn Names an Unexpected Reason for Russia\u2019s Special Operation.\u201d It\u2019s as if they\u2019re saying, \u201cIt\u2019s pretty strange to learn that the cause of the invasion of Ukraine was not actually \u2018denazification\u2019 or \u2018demilitarization,\u2019 but the fight against LGBT+.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there\u2019s nothing really to be surprised about here. It\u2019s the same old thing: \u201cdegeneration,\u201d a threat of destruction to the country and culture, and the need to fight to the last with a group that is ascribed a most evil role are all very familiar. Here is another example from Goebbels\u2019s speech at the 1935 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg: \u201cThis war is not just anti-bourgeois, it is anti-culture. It means, in the final consequence, the absolute destruction of all economic, social, state, cultural, and civilizing advances made by western civilization for the benefit of a rootless and nomadic international clique of conspirators, who have found their representation in Jewry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

LGBT+ activists, who are directly affected by the new repressive law, <\/span>are drawing<\/span><\/a> these exact same historical analogies: Fascist regimes launch repressions against the most defenseless and \u201cunpopular\u201d groups (Jews, Roma, LGBT+, followers of certain religions). <\/span><\/p>\n

Yulia Alyoshina, who simply cannot work under the current law, has already <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a> that she is abandoning her political career: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have never engaged in such propaganda, but I cannot conceive how I can continue with my public political activity as an openly transgender woman,\u201d she wrote.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The spin doctor Anton Krasovsky, who tried to ingratiate himself with the authorities by betraying himself and everything he has previously said<\/a><\/span>, has already been fired, even though he was of course not the only one to openly call for the killing of Ukrainians. Others were able to do this, but this didn\u2019t help him, and it even harmed him. History has many examples of cases where members of a persecuted minority (Krasovsky is openly gay, although he is remorseful about this and about his words begging to forgive him, a \u201cfool\u201d) attempted to outrun their persecutors in terms of aggression and lackeyship, but are still driven out by the \u201cmasters of the universe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Olga Abramenko,<\/strong> <\/em>
\nFirst published on the blog of Radio Svoboda<\/a>
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