Last month, President Putin signed a law that classifies any form of ” homosexual propaganda ” as pornography. He then passed a bill that allows police officers to arrest and detain openly gay foreigners. Finally, Putin banned the adoption of Russian babies to homosexual couples. With these three measures, Putin has created a climate in which homophobia is considered normal.
In response, a group of Russian neo-Nazis openly hunts down homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals using the hashtags “Occupy Pedophilyaj” and “Occupy Gerontilyaj” . Using the social network VK.com, the Russian version of Facebook, sex appointments are made. However, upon arrival at the agreed location, the teenagers are unpleasantly surprised. They are met by several people who subject the victim to an extremely unpleasant interrogation, which often involves physical intimidation and torture.
Modern Civil Guards
The movement is headed by Maxim Martsinkevich, better known by the nickname ‘Cleaver’ (or ‘ Tecak ‘ in Russian), an latvia phone number list influential member of the Russian far-right neo-Nazi extremist group Format18. He started the movement.
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Martsinkevich’s followers see themselves as modern-day vigilantes. They carry out their actions in broad daylight in public places. Initially, the aim was to track down and trap pedophiles via social media, but soon the focus shifted to homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals. In an interview with the Russian online newspaper Lenta, one of the group’s leaders said the following:
“We do not like homosexuals
If it was up to me, I’d kill them but the government doesn’t allow that. . .I think practically all gay men [are] pedophiles. Once you’ve crossed india number list over once, you can cross over again. Today he likes boys, and then it’ll be children.
Video as a driver
All these actions are recorded on video and distributed via the website VK.com. But also on YouTube to get reviews on amazon, testers are often used several films can be found. The videos in question all have more than a hundred thousand page views. The date of the videos shows that this movement has been going on for several months.