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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:08 AM Oct 2012

Russia's War on Gays and Lesbians Intensifies

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russian-conservatives-target-gays-and-lesbians-a-862745.html

Russia's self-proclaimed morality police have discovered a new danger to the people's health and values, and it is to be found in the country's supermarkets -- in the form of dairy products from the American company PepsiCo. Activists from the Orthodox group called the People's Council have even gotten Russia prosecutors involved.

"The packaging of these dairy products with the label 'Vesyoly Molochnik' have long been a thorn in my side," says Anatoly Artyuch, of the People's Council. The brand means "happy milkman" in English.
Pepsi uses the brand to sell all manner of dairy products, including milk, yoghurt and kefir. Packages portray a smiling, slightly rotund milkman wearing a chef's hat. Behind him is a green meadow with a rainbow stretching across the sky. Artyuch believes that the rainbow isn't quite as innocent as it might seem. He thinks it is "the global symbol of the sodomite movement." Russia's judiciary is currently looking into the claims.

The grotesque offensive against the dairy brand is part of a conservative campaign in Russia aimed at gays and lesbians in the country. In their view, homosexuality isn't merely a sin, but also a symbol of damaging "Westernization."

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Russia's War on Gays and Lesbians Intensifies (Original Post) xchrom Oct 2012 OP

It's no wonder the Communist Party tried so hard to LuvNewcastle Oct 2012 #1

Heres a picture. William769 Oct 2012 #2

Oh and let's not forget "Remaining Pussy Rioters Shipped to Soviet-Era Labor Camps" William769 Oct 2012 #3

So Republicans and Evangelicals agree with the Russians, as usual... Bluenorthwest Oct 2012 #4

LuvNewcastle

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1. It's no wonder the Communist Party tried so hard to

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Tue Oct 23, 2012, 08:41 AM

Oct 2012

stamp out the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. I've read in Russian novels about all the ignorance that abounded within that religion and it's apparently no better today. I used to think I would like to visit Russia, but there's no way in hell anyone could get me to visit there now. I think an international boycott of Russia is in order here, at least until they afford some basic human rights to GLBT people.