j0nathan
formerly trainer_j0nathan
You are so right. I wasn't trying to frame the russian people, they are not the problem. (I'm sorry if my post implies that). Literally every russian/belarusian I personally know is an ally.It may be because I only met Russian immigrants but every Russian person I talked to has been accepting of LGBT, and I met like 20+ of em. The gov may be heavily against them, but that doesn't neccessarily correlate to the opinions of the poeple. Look at Turkey, used to very progressive until the turn of the millenium, where right wing parties have started to find voters in the large turkish diasporas. As the currently ruling right wing party has become more authoritive, less and less people were able to display acceptance and it has become a taboo topic in society
Another example would be Serbia, my parent's home country. The majority of the population isn't political and doesn't particularly care about whether someone's gay or not. It's the very loud, very right wing, political minority that's anti LGBT
It's the government/people in charge who are the problem. It's pretty much impossible to demonstrate or say anything critical about the government in a totalitarian system like russia cause they'll just put you in prison.
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