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kpete

(72,022 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 08:41 AM Jun 2018

Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting.

Russians and the American right started plotting in 1995. We have the notes from the first meeting.
New documents obtained by ThinkProgress show how Russian and American fundamentalists first began their collaboration.


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In time, Carlson’s partnership with Antonov and Victor Medkov, another Russian sociologist, would grow into the World Congress of Families (WCF) — the most prominent Russian-American anti-LGBTQ collaboration to date, and the foremost international anti-LGBTQ organization in the world.

But little has been reported about that first visit to Russia in 1995, when Carlson, Antonov, and Medkov originally began laying the groundwork for WCF. Carlson shared the diary he kept with ThinkProgress — written observations that help illuminate the earliest days of their partnership, and the emergence of what would become a Russian-American collaboration to unwind efforts at equality and acceptance.



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DOCS HERE:
https://www.scribd.com/document/381183064/Account-of-WCF-Founder-Allan-Carlson-in-Russia#download&from_embed

MORE HERE:
https://thinkprogress.org/history-of-christian-fundamentalists-in-russia-and-the-us-a6bdd326841d/
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