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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:18 AM
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I thought Pravada went socially liberal with the fall of the USSR...
"Homosexuals are coming to power in America!

Homosexuals are heading for the American government. The St.Petersburg news agency Russkaya Liniya (Russian Line) released this information, with reference to Washington ProFile (WPF) news service.

Homosexual leaders are exercising greater power in American political circles. Their share in the United States is 4% of the entire population. Vice President Dick Cheney-s daughter is proud of being a lesbian. Gays and lesbians spent $2.5 million to support their candidates during the 2000 elections.

Homosexuals continue to claim that they feel that they are "outsiders" in modern society. The political society of the United States is paying more and more attention to the gay problem. Gays and lesbians get married in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and in other cities of the United States; there are reportedly over 600 gay families in the United States, and there are even the gay districts.

People are getting used to the new ideas of the new Western reality. Tastes differ, so to speak. WPF reported that 85% of American citizens (the youth basically) are certain that homosexuals should have the same rights as straight people do (the opinion poll was performed by Gallup).

As it turns out, representatives of the Democratic Party of America enjoy the biggest love on the part of homosexuals (and vice versa). For instance, Bill Clinton was promising back in 1992 that lesbians and gays would be allowed to serve in the army. For the time being, there are three sexual perverts sitting in the US Congress, and they do not hide their feelings. They are Democrats Tammy Baldwin and Barney Frank and the Republican Jim Kolb.

This is disgusting! It is America's decay and certain decline. To prove this, PRAVDA.Ru is now preparing an article by Rockford Institute professor Srdja Trifkovic, which will soon be published on our site.

Sergey Stefanov"
PRAVDA.Ru
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:23 AM
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1. I've heard Russian culture is extremely anti-gay
They never had a LGBT rights movement, and it shows.
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lanlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:25 AM
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2. what made you think that?
Pravda is still deeply conservative.

Plus, Russian society is largely intolerant of homosexuality.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:25 AM
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3. I read somewhere that the webpage is not related to the old newspaper
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Adjoran Donating Member (650 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:27 AM
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4. It's not
Pravda is now privately run. I think one company/man controls most of the media there, sort a Russian Rupert Murdoch.
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chadm Donating Member (480 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 10:28 AM
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5. Anti-American does not equal Liberal
It's a different culture. You will not be able to label it.
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dutchdemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:08 AM
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6. I've seen more shocking things in the US press
And examples of propaganda that is.

Pravada (sic) is not even related to the article. Pravda split off in two with one version online which has embraced tabloid-ism and another print offshoot controlled by a dark, shadowy underworld Rupert of Russia.

The Russians are finding their feet in free press. Let them be.

Go to America's National Enquirer or Star or Britain's Sun if you want to see headlines that yank your panties.

I wouldn't worry about it.
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Bozola Donating Member (992 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-28-03 11:34 AM
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7. Pravda is and always has been the Russian Weekly World News


It's a tabloid.
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