Quote from: Hispo on Today at 03:38:01 PM

Quote from: yslyv on Today at 12:41:00 PM

While I was living in Russia, I observed that Russians tend to have harsher views toward LGBT individuals. I'm not sure whether this is truly the result of Putin's anti-LGBT ideological propaganda or due to geographic or cultural factors. But it's interesting that Trump shows a similar attitude.

Sure, it is part of the propaganda of the Kremlin. If you have a complete generation of Russian being rosen up in a country which actively demonized people who are not straight and using the state media to do so, one can only expect such generation to off very homophobic ideas in the broad light with nobody trying to counter their narrative. It is similar to what happened in Italy and in Nacional socialist Germany when both Mussolini and Hitler were asked about homosexuals in their countries, they were tagged as undesirables, freaks and scum of their societies.
In the case of the United States, it is not so easily to be openly homophobic, since due to their separation of power one needs to stick to a minimum of power correctness in order to get elected for public office. Trump would have not dared to say half of the things he is willing to openly talk about now when he was a candidate, because every candidate in western democracies need to keep a façade.

To be honest, there are more countries with harsh views and even legal penalties for LGBT than countries that are liberal on that regard.

However, in Ruzzia they need children. The country is in a full economic decline so they need Ruzzians making more little Ruzzians not doing gay stuff. This also is ideologically interesting for the Kremlin as it passes as a "diference" with "the West"... you know there's a word "Gayrope" so Gay Europe. The Krenlim taps on the prejudices to convince their own people that their system (Putin's system) is superior because it is more "manly".

It is of course a total stink.