Putin diverts from speech to call LGBTQ+ rights 'corrupt Western values'

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During his rambling hours-long state-of-the-nation address, Vladimir Putin decided to use his time to slam LGBTQ+ rights, calling them 'corrupt Western values'.

The marathon speech has for decades set the tone for the year ahead and today came ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war on Friday.

‘The West declares that perversions including paedophilia, are part of the norm, destroys its values, calls on priests to bless same-sex marriages,’ he said.To thunderous applause, Putin mocked media reports that theOn Western countries legalising same-sex marriage, Putin said: ‘That’s fine. They’re adults. They have the right to live their lives.

Putin has long used scaremongering around sexuality and gender to support his agenda while cracking down on human rights in Russia.

 

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Totalitarians who lived under totalitarianism all their lives simply don't get the concept of true freedom and what it means to individuals, their imaginations prevented from even exploring the idea by a lifetime of evil government brainwashing

Sometimes I feel this guy just rationally thinks things through

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