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And it got attacked by a ton of fascists. The videos are horrible. Not only that, but due to security threats the parade had to be limited quite a lot.
And it got attacked by a ton of fascists.
Literally had to be protected by the military. It’s weird how that lead got so heavily buried. Imagine if this story had been written about Mexico or Brazil or China.
That really, really sucks.
However, in Russia, the fascists attacking them would be police and the people marching would all be in prison now, if not dead… so as awful as it is in Ukraine, it’s even worse for the queer people in the country invading them.
So let’s hope it continues to be legal to be queer in Ukraine, hard as it is.
Back in the day there existed Current TV and before Vice documentaries were a thing there was Vanguard — out of which came some awesome investigative journalists. One of the pieces they did was From Russia, With Hate which documented the rising neo-nazi anti-immigrant sentiment in Russia. In essence we knew Russia was a shit-hole then, and it’s of course an earlier stepping-stone to compare to in terms our own nation’s direction.
An event that lasted 15 minutes before it was invaded by the Nazis that we are told are not in Ukraine. At another pride event they went through the crowd checking papers for conscription eligibility
