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Putin is not agains homosexuality, he has concerns that the persons behind the gay rights protests are in fact trying to facilitate a colour revolution style co
by DominikR 13y ago
Putin is not agains homosexuality, he has concerns that the persons behind the gay rights protests are in fact trying to facilitate a colour revolution style coup.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution
Another move that makes it plausible that this is in fact his reasoning for the "gay propaganda" law is the "foreign agent" law.
The foreign agent law makes it mandatory for NGO's to be transparent about who they are associated with, and from which foreign country they receive money.
To me, this paranoia is going overboard, but on the other hand there are precedents where coups happened after NGO's, that received money and other resources from foreign governments, incited protests.
And inciting protests from within is probably one of the few options left, if you want to facilitate a regime change in Russia, since conventional war is not going to go well with that many nukes on both sides of the table.