Hmmmm... Why am I having #DejaVu?

From 2022: "Vladimir #Putin has mentioned 'gender freedoms' more than once to justify #Russia’s war against #Ukraine and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens.

"Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek '#GenderFreedoms' (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part of the anti-Russian 'fifth column.'

"Gender and sexuality freedoms — or rights, as they are more typically called — are about #BodilyAutonomy, #diversity and #inclusivity. #Feminist and #LGBTQ+ activists assert that every human being deserves respect, recognition and equal rights regardless of their gender or sexuality.

"What’s the connection between Putin’s animosity toward Ukraine and toward #gender and #sexuality rights in Russia and around the world?

Gender and Putin’s regime

"Putin’s regime has increasingly relied on very conventional gender and sexual norms.

"When he first ascended to the presidency, image-makers used Putin’s #KGB background and penchant for physical fitness to frame him as a #macho #strongman who could reverse Russia’s waning power and 'remasculinize' the country after a decade of supposed geopolitical flaccidity in the wake of the #Soviet collapse.

"In other words, an inflexible and clearly #patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to the Putin regime’s legitimacy.

"Russia’s foreign policy has relied on rigid gender norms as well. When Ukraine underwent its first pro-democracy revolution in 2004, Russian media questioned its leaders’ masculinity.

"Putin likewise used homophobic terms to dismiss #Georgia’s #RoseRevolution in 2003, responding to a reporter’s question by saying: 'A rose revolution — next they’ll come up with a light blue one.' In Russian, 'light blue' or goluboi is slang for “gay male.”

Gender and appealing to constituencies

"Putin has often been represented as the unquestioned leader of the pack ruling Russia — a masculinity-driven image.

"However, even as the leader of a personalist #dictatorship — a regime in which there are few institutional limits on the leader’s power — Putin must balance competing interests among significant elites and maintain at least the appearance of public support in order to be considered a legitimate ruler.

"Until 2020, Putin was using gendered language in his speeches to signal his alignment with a variety of elites and public constituencies that supported him. He was sending mixed signals to both relatively progressive Russians who value women’s roles in the workplace and to #conservatives wishing for a return to '#TraditionalFamilyValues,' in order to keep everyone in his camp.

"But after July 2021, when he published an essay contending Ukrainians and Russians are a single people, Putin no longer shied away from making sexist and LGBTQ+-phobic comments in prominent settings.

"At an October 2021 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that Putin is closely associated with — he said teaching children about #GenderFluidity was 'truly monstrous' and 'verging on a crime against humanity.'"

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putin-the-czar-of-macho-politics-is-threatened-by-gender-and-sexuality-rights-180473
#USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #GBLTQRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #ToxicMasculinity #GenderFascists

Von #Putin unterschriebene Verträge sind weniger wert als #BenutztesKlopapier. Die einzige Sprache, die #Genosse #VladolfPutler (vom #KGB als zu unberechenbar und gewaltbereit eingestuft, so dass er in die DDR zwangsversetzt wurde) versteht, ist, zu meinem großen Bedauern, #militärischeAbschreckung, die Gefahr so ernsthaft eine runter gehauen zu bekommen, dass er still sitzen bleibt.

#BudapesterMemorandum
#MinskI
#MinskII
#Ukraine #russland #Ukrainekrieg #RusslandUkraineKrieg

Oleg Gordievsky, a long-time KGB double agent who defected to Britain in a major coup during the Cold War, has died aged 86. Read about his extraordinary life from @BBCNews
https://flip.it/g6yfXc
#UK #Britain #KGB #USSR #Russia #Spy #ColdWar

Yet #Putin's plan is crystal clear since Jan. 20th, 2025: the KGB team which occupy the White House is requested to sow total chaos in as much Western countries as possible, USA first, until they can either be annexed, or atomized without being able to resist.

Illustration:

#Krasnov, July 1987, Moscow, URSS. Trump-Krasnov (his codename in KGB files) is 41.
He went to Moscow at the invitation of the USSR ambassador to the United States, Mr. Dubinin.
On his return from Moscow he suddenly receives loans from 16 banks and buys the Plaza Hotel - without negotiation - for 407.5 million dollars - a record price for a hotel ...

#USA #KGB #HighTreason

Brits need to read this too!

“KRASNOV: Every American Needs to Understand This”

by Don Knight in The Midnight Manuscripts on Substack

@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@guardian @Independent @thetimes
@UKLabour

“New Allegations Resurface: Was Donald Trump Recruited as a Russian Asset?”

https://open.substack.com/pub/donovanwashere/p/krasnov-every-american-needs-to-understand?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #US #Russia #Trump #Krasnov #Subversion #KGB #Melania #Slovenia #Asset #OrganizedCrime #RussianCash #Mueller #Propaganda

Third, many #Trump associates have condemned the banning of the #Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the #Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The Russian Orthodox Church, led by #KGB agent Vladimir Gundyayev, functions as an extension of Russian intelligence agencies.

8/25

Throughout the years – or even decades – #Russia’s narratives against the West have remained largely the same. Many of them date back to the #ColdWar era, when the #KGB and #CIA were bitter enemies. But since then, the media landscape has drastically changed.

2/25

#Trump IS a #KGB agent codenamed #Krasnov since 1987, he does what #Putin wants, and Putin wants the biggest Chaos possible in all the Western countries, America first.
Beware of all KGB agents, all are pushing neo-nazis ahead.

The place of such a traitor is at least in jail. In Russia they are straight executed.
#HighTreason

“BREAKING CROSSPOST: Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief”

by Nafeez Ahmed and Zarina Zabrisky in Byline Times on Substack

“Byline Times has crashed due to a DDOS attack and the original story blocked: a former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman”

https://open.substack.com/pub/bylinesupplement/p/breaking-crosspost-donald-trump-was?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

#Press #BylineTimes #DDOS #Attack #Trump #KGB #Recruitment #Russia #Mussayev #Krasnov

If true, this explains a lot!

“Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief”

by Nafeez Ahmed and Zarina Zabrisky in Byline Times @BylineTimes

“A former senior Soviet KGB spy chief has claimed that Donald Trump was recruited as a spy by Russian intelligence as early as 38 years ago by his department, and given the codename ‘Krasnov’”

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/donald-trump-was-recruited-by-the-kgb-under-codename-krasnov-claims-former-soviet-spy-chief/?mc_cid=dae7e59a6e&mc_eid=a2ef54182e

#Press #US #Trump #KGB #Russia #Recruitment #Codename #Krasnov #Kompromat