Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories

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Russia has been sliding steadily into dictatorship since Vladimir Putin first came to power in 2000. Along with the crackdown at home, Putin’s Russia has become an active force for corruption and despotism well beyond its borders. But when it comes to standing up to Putin, leaders and pundits of the West alternate between indifference and feigned helplessness—so it’s a rare moment when an issue cuts through this cycle.

To paraphrase Tolstoy’s opening line in Anna Karenina: all dictatorships are unhappy in their own way. Putin’s Russia is not the USSR, but the fact that Russians are free to leave doesn’t mean they are free. Putin is no Hitler, but even though no one can be compared to the Nazi monster of World War II, there are important lessons to learn from how Hitler was enabled by his own people and the world when he was merely an esteemed leader in the 1930s. Perhaps such lessons are just too painful.

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