Homophobic extremists attack gay activists in Russia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,2089413,00.html

This is scary! They are a horrifying bunch of people.

I guess that must mean they do have Bush supporters in Russia.

in this country believe Russia will be their savor. I kid you not

And Luzhkov (gay demonstrations "the work of satan") sounds like a really swell mayor doesn't he? Hell, let's all move to Moscow.

Or Poland.

Doesn't look that way now. :grr:

If you are going to change it, "Neo-Stalinists attack gay activists in Russia" might be more accurate, although the Guardian does call them neo-fascists.

Stalin was quite repressive when it came to homosexuality and everything else, for that matter! I think neo-Stalinist would have served the article better. :shrug:

as that describes the bastards involved without making political-party assumptions, which I'm not really in a position to check.

However, there certainly are explicitly neo-Nazi and fascist groups in Russia - here is a description from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-nazis#Russia

may, in fact, be neo-nazis; but I would imagine there even more neo-Stalinists. Both groups are frightening.

Neo-nazism is a real phenomenon.

Is Neo-stalinism a real phenomenon, or is it just a label?

and Eastern block former communist countries who want a return to communism, Crazy Joe Stalin style.

Those were the days, comrade. We thought they'd never end.

The USSR liberated the various allegedly oppressed nations, and gave their blood and money to help them be civilized and advanced. Stalin's crimes against humanity are overstated, and most of the dead died of disease and starvation--certainly not Stalin's fault (this bit rather sounds like Turkey's 'defense' of the Armenian genocide). The USSR was a great, noble mission, undermined and destroyed by the vile West, those nasty Jews and homosexuals.

Yada, yada, yada.

It surfaces not so much in 'fine' literature, although some upstanding sorts of works make flippant remarks about the tin-foilery and bigotry that runs rampant (Sorokin's "Ice" has fun with it). But there's sort of an unter-literature that revels in it. Disgusting, really.

homosexual sex was a crime until 1993.