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submitted 3 weeks ago by ByeBrie@lemmings.world to c/world@quokk.au

A Russian man arrested for allegedly running a travel agency for gay customers was found dead in custody in Moscow, rights group OVD-Info reported Sunday, amid a crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Russia.

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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 20 points 3 weeks ago

The man looks a lot like Putin.

[-] CrazyFrog97@discuss.online 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

i wish

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears before the media after the summit of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Nov. 28, 2024. (Mikhail Tereshchenko, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

here's the actual guy

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think you got your photos mixed, this definitely doesn’t look like Putin. /jk

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's how Putin looks without the makeup and prosthetics.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

can tell they don't like gay people, but prosecuting them won't make them straight, useless sweep-them-under-the-rug operation

[-] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Christian virtue signaling! Worked for the nazis, works for the neo nazis!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 weeks ago

All Nazis are fascists but not all fascists are Nazis.

Putin's government is a (white) Russian supremacist Orthodox fascist theocracy, which is another type of fascist shit show than Nazism.

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