Today is Russian Airborne Troops Day, an annual military pride celebration which traditionally involves gaggles of soldiers spilling into public square for merriment, flag waving, wallowing in public fountains and miscellaneous public drunkenness. This year, they have a new hobby. If anyone has any confusion about what Russia’s recently-adopted anti-gay laws do to its public, let me translate some of the audible dialogue in the video above, captured by PaperPaper.ru.
A young man decides to picket in Palace Square. He stands there alone with a rainbow flag, knowingly breaking this summer’s new anti-“gay propaganda” bill. UPDATE: His name is Kirill Kalugin and his rainbow banner read “This is propagating tolerance.”
A large group of current Airborne service members (striped-tank tops) circle around him and their leader starts the guerilla interrogation.
“What are you doing here on Airborne Army Day?”
“I am picketing,” he says, trying to keep on his feet while being manhandled by the group.
“Well, we do not agree with this and ask you to stop this sort of action and your one-man picket.” They begin to push him around. He falls.
“Oh, look he slipped and fell. Don’t do that,” the soldier says, performatively at the journalists trying to get closer. The man is visibly frightened as the soldiers form a chain around him and began to chant, smacking their fists into their palms.
“CALL THE POLICE ON HIM,” someone jeer. “STAND RIGHT THERE,” a few yell. The police arrive (blue shirts, police hats) and attempt to drag the man out of the circle, so the soldiers move closer, blocking their access and pushing them away.
“What the fuck were you thinking, showing up at Palace Square, faggot?” the leader yells.
“You guys are animals,” the protestor rasps, while another soldier chokes him and shakes him by his neck. As the cops try to remove the illegally protesting young man, the soldiers start shoving them and throwing punches. In the next shot, they encircle the police vehicle — “We’re not going to let them fucking move anywhere.” — after their leader tries to get into the cruiser and drag the protestor out, yelling, “Why are you defending him?!”
Russian special forces arrive (“OMOH” jackets), as things are clearly getting out of hand. They start putting the drunken soldiers into detention buses and more fights break out between the soldiers and the police.
“They took our guys. They attacked our guys!” A soldier screams.
“It’s our job,” a cop replies, apologetically.
“We don’t stand by your provocations,” they scream at the car. Then, the drunken leader proceeds to rant at the camera about the “evil darkness” of “the bitches” in Russia and how bothered “we, normal human men” are by their sheer existence. “This is evil. Putin is fag and the rest of it is all shit. The entire country is on its knees. We are Russians!” In the background, a soldier screams at a cop, “Why are you not ticketing the faggot parade?” Then, the soldiers start attacking journalists and smacking down their cameras.
This video comes our way from the popular Russian LiveJournal blog of Ilya Varlamov, a photojournalist whose work we admire greatly, including his coverage off the day when the anti-“gay propaganda” bill was passed and kids, thugs and Christian extremists attacked a small group of peaceful protestors in Moscow. It is very disappointing to read his statement, accompanying the video, if even the one man we’re used to seeing at every protest is confused.
I’m curious what the LGBT thinks about actions like this? I think these provocations do more harm than good for the LGBT society? Who needed this provocation? It wasn’t spontaneous. Journalists were invited. And what if this fool was accidentally killed? Some drunk man-child could have punched him in the head, and that’s it. Lives of several people would have been ruined. Seriously, I do not understand such actions. Who from my readers is LGBT? How do you feel about this?
Since answering him is technically illegal, I don’t see what response he is expecting, so let me do this now from way over here: (1) Challenging a law that infringes upon your very existence is not “a provocation.” It is civic and social duty. (2) Media action is necessary to draw international attention to the Human Rights crisis in a country that’s about to host the Olympics, where the anti-gay laws will be applied to everyone, to at least, warn people if not to inspire action. (3) I’m sorry, if the “man-child” had killed “this fool,” his life deserves to be “ruined.” That’s what laws are meant to do: Punish murderers and violent criminals, not persecute “LGBT society,” which by the way, doesn’t live in the Big Gay Village out in Magadan Oblast… Their “society” is part of your society. They’re your coworkers, your family and your friends.
Read the other updates here. (Photo: Fontanka via Ilya Varlamov/LiveJournal)
I am from Turkey, a Muslim country with a lot of problems in terms of human rights and free expression, but just check out the final 2013 Gay Parade in Istanbul. It was peaceful and joyful, just after the Gezi Park uprising -against authoritarian and anti-secular trends of the government. There is no law against banning gay parade here. After all Turkey is a Mediterranean country. Putin is dogmatic and Russia is totally intolerant to individual freedoms. This is sad and unacceptable.
Thank you for your comment, Mavimojo!
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so, not to be the retard in the room but….
IS NO ONE SERIOUSLY GOING TO SAY THAT THE SPECIAL FORCES SHIRTS SAY HOMO SPELLED BACKWARDS?
or is it just me that finds that hilariously ironic?
Yes, I've noticed that. Stay tuned.
-Marina
all fags must die
F**k you! You're an ignorant piece of s**t. I really hope karma comes to bite you in the ass!
Don't worry, Danny. Karma never fails.
Hi,
I'm from Germany and I'm really sad about the reaction in Russia of gay people. I also surprised that no institution from outside, ( Amnasty international, United Nations or even Europe) didn't do anything against Putin and this hilirious law.
Hopefully, Putin will change his opinion about homosexuals or better: People in Russia do something against Putin. You need a strong opposition.
Thinking of you. Wolf
Drunkeness and women beating is also rampant among Russian men. All those years ruled by demented apes has some damaging effects on a people.
The kid who decided to protest on Russian Airborne Troops Day is a f**king dumb ass, to be honest. There are better days to go out and try to talk some people into thinking being gay is not illegal but come on. That's like the westbro baptist church going out on veterans' day in the middle of the street waving their military hating flags. They're just lucky that America sees them as a church and tells them to get back on the sidewalk. Imagine what the ruskies would've done if they saw the westbro baptist church yelling about all that shit. They would be dead a long time ago.
If you are seriously comparing a person taking a peaceful stance for their human right to exist in a form of a small protest aimed at internet media to… a hate group of religious fanatics picketing messages of hate and death at a non-related event, to instigate violence so they can later sue for damages — which is where westboro's main funding comes from, btw — you're not reasonable and very uninformed. What the fuck, bro.
It's illogical to even protest at a location where there's dozens of drunken men. What's the point if he's going to get beat up anyway? Also, what he's doing is also disrespectful.
I was going to explain to you "what the point is" but if you asked that, it's clear we have nothing to talk about.
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