Chechnya’s strongman ruler Razman Kadyrov appears to be even more
determined to repress gays than Stalin. He doesn’t bother with the
niceties of the courtroom, even if based on prejudicial laws. Instead,
he has encouraged mob rule in which gay men are entrapped by either cops
or vigilantes who have the power to torture anybody caught up in their net.
With his barbaric mixed martial arts background, made even worse by
Islamist homophobia, Kadyrov brazens his way through interviews, making
Donald Trump look Gandhian by comparison. During an interview with
Bryant Gumbel in July 2017, Kadyrov said, “We don’t have such people
here. We don’t have any gays. If there are any, take them to Canada.
Praise be to God. Take them far away from us. To purify our blood, if
there are any here, take them.”
Currently showing on HBO Max, “Welcome to Chechnya” allows you to hear
from the people suffering from a brutal crackdown that began in early
2017. The documentary states it started with a drug raid, rather than a
Stonewall-type assault. One of the arrested men had a cell phone with
messages to his male lovers as well as gay porn. The cops then used the
phone to begin a massive campaign that sounds quite a bit like the
witch-hunts of the 1950s that targeted both Reds and gays. To get
lenient treatment, you had to name names. If you refused to incriminate
fellow gays, you’d end up spending months in prison being tortured.
full: https://louisproyect.org/2020/12/25/welcome-to-chechnya/
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