Thursday 29 August 2013

Russian witch hunt notice to tenants

This notice to tenants was put on a building in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia. It's chilling in its witch hunt and demonisation of gays, and in in my opinion completely reminiscent of Hitler's Germany and his persecution of the Jews. First the actual notice, with a translation below.


Dear Residents, 

According to our observation of your building, during 1-2 quarter of 2013, in your building we discovered persons who are queer (gay, lesbian and etc…). At the moment these people are in the process of explanatory work. 

We ask you to show vigilance towards people who are doing propaganda of homosexualism. 

Please note, that propaganda of non-traditional relationship by such people can be determined non only directly, for example describing the advantage of living as a homosexual, offering you or members of your family to have sexual relationship with you; not only by unusual style of dressing or unnatural behavior but also propaganda can be started little by little, holding homosexual propaganda in house for several years. 

Please remember, that homosexual can be dressed quite simply, he looks like you, he can be nice in communication and you can even know him. Remember that homosexual doesn’t know the age limit and a person who does homosexual propaganda can be a person who just graduated from school or an old man. 

Increase your vigilance when you talk with your neighbors, when you are checking your mail and in elevators. You can easily become a target of homosexual propaganda and there is a one step from being homosexual and to start propaganda of homosexualism and molesting decent people. 

If you become suspicious of one of your neighbors who does homosexual propaganda, immediately inform internal affairs bodies, local police officer or by phones: 02 or 240 60 30. 

Administration. Source
I can't understand how any athlete with a conscience could even consider going to Russia with this going on there. Medals are just not that important as far as I'm concerned.

Melanie Nathan of oblogdeeoblogda says it beautifully:
 You will note that the notice refers directly to the anti-propaganda law and the “administrator” is providing the impetus to for vigilante’s to physically hurt gays. A problem which has become endemic in Russia. This is exactly how the laws started in Nazi Germany, against the Jews. At first the discriminatory law seemed excusable by those who tried to justify them, because they touted as insignificant and couched in lies based on the idea of feigning the protection of people. And then they became increasingly worse. Did we not say “never again?” And are we really going to repeat history by showing up for the Olympics in Sochi 2014? more

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