What can be said about MPs Gennady Raikov, Dmitry Rogozin and Vadim Bulavin, who initiated calling homosexuals for criminal accountability? On the one hand, the idea of dictating grown-ups how to achieve sexual satisfaction would never occur to a smart person. On the other hand, Mr. Rogozin can not be called a fool at all. Meantime, they suggest up to five years of punishment for homosexuals. Barbaric laws do not come within any logic, so much the more is getting back to barbarism from a short-term civilized period. The article on sodomy dropped out of the Criminal Code in 1991. Soviet power strictly prescribed the population the rules of sexual life under the aplomb of a censor. To wit, the nonentity aspired to look like a pattern of high morality in its own peculiar way. It is known that a thief is the first and loudest to scream “Stop thief!”. Those were the times of sanctimony raised to the state policy ranks. Gennady Ivanovich Raikov seems to be missing those days when he was a factory director and readily stood at attention before the Party’s leadership.
It is far more difficult to guess what Dmitry Olegovich Rogozin is wearied with longing for. What makes him rummaging through others’ beds and check who, whom and how? He is probably eager to earn popularity with the masses mistakenly presuming that the majority of people is like he is. Or maybe he’s seeking the fame of a frondeur since he is a frequent visitor at the Council of Europe where such lawmakers are treated with perplexity and, surprisingly, compassion.
It should not be ruled out that the MPs are seeking the fame of Herostratos and badly eager to create their own chapter in the history of barbaric persecution of homosexuals. By no means they will not cap Hitler who introduced the death penalty for sodomy in 1942, but it seems like the MPs don’t mind to resemble the dictator.
Whatever were the genuine motives of this initiative, it is clear that no one forces Raikov, Rogozin and Bulavin to have a man-to-man sex, so that they, in turn, should not interfere in intimate relationships of others – either in person or by means of laws.
As a character of a Soviet popular movie held, “I feel hurt for the homeland”. It would be true to say that our country is not too foolish to be shown the world in such a idiotic state.
It’s just another trouble which came down to Russia with MPs of the State Duma. Roads can be repaired at last. Fools can be ignored. But what can MPs be done away with?