Gay Club in Kiev Attacked By Mob of Neo-Nazis: Video

[Purveyor]

LGBT community in Eastern Europe continued this week with an attack by a group of 15 to 20 neo-nazis against the gay club "Pomada" (Lipstick) in the Ukrainian capital city, Kiev. The melee was captured on video by a surveillance camera.

--CLIP
A statement released by the Interior Ministry of Ukraine in Kiev stated the following:

At the scene, according to an entertainment venue staff, law enforcement officers found that shortly before the call to the police came to the administration building about 15 people in camouflage and balaclava (ski masks) and began to commit unlawful acts. Located near the main entrance to the nightclub, unidentified persons threw a smoke bomb and several firecrackers. this damaged the facade of the building, ventilation and outdoor surveillance camera.

The video captured shows club goers rushed into the building by a bouncer while a gang approaches. The gang, many of whom were dressed in ski masks with neo-Nazi symbols storm the front of the building, kicking and punching in an attempt to get into the club. They quickly fled for reasons unclear.

Pink News reports far-right homophobic groups were influential in Ukraine’s recent coup, prior to which the parliament attempted to pass an anti-discrimination bill.

The attack follows the cancellation of the city’s scheduled gay pride event.

http://www.edgeonthenet.com/news/international/News/162027/gay_club_in_kiev_attacked_by_mob_of_neo-nazis:_video

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Hmmm, looks like Kiev has some problems on the home front. n/t

[HooptieWagon]

2. Yes, and those who oppose these fascists...

... are accused by some DUers as being "Putin lovers". That is purely the binary thinking of inferior intellects. The choices aren't always black and white. Sometimes they are grey and grey, and sometimes even black and black. I suspect Ukraine poses the latter choice, in which case involvement by the US on either side carries risk for no reward.

[Igel]

3. Nobody's saying there aren't fascists.

However, the group that is fighting them has just made it a blanket "government" policy to raid and close gay clubs in Donets'k, Luhans'k, etc. God's Army--I'm sorry, the Russian Orthodox Army--has no use for them and outlawed them. They're also puritans when it comes to closing sex shops in general and limit alcohol sales.

The outcry over a kiss at EuroVision was immense, and the LPR and DPR press made hay out of it--the Kiev government had no problem with it, allowing decadence like that on the airwaves. The DPR and LPR closed down a tv channel or two, citing the very fact that the Eurovision contest was broadcast with such scurrilous content. The Kiev government may be fascists, but they're gay-loving fascists. Even Oleh Lyashko, hardly a moderate by any means, is condemned not so much for being a fascist as for being the "homosexual, Lyashko," in the rebel press.

It's unlikely Right Sector will have much representation at all in the new Rada when the current one self-dissolves and the new one is elected. Svoboda will have a bit more. Between the two of them they got about 2% of the vote last election. The Party of Regions might have a bit more--some vote ethnicity and fear more than anything else--but not a whole lot. But Right Sector might yet face the same fate that the Communist Party has. Forcible disbanding.

[HooptieWagon]

4. Is it not possible both sides are bad?

Thats what Ive said since the beginning. Its an immature thought process to "determine" one side is bad, therefore the other must be good.... a thought process usually found in simplistic conservative minds.
Syria is another example. All the fighting factions there are bad.

[William769]

5. We have hate crimes here too in America.

The difference is we have laws to protect the LGBT community, but it still happens. Ukraine has some laws to protect LGBT people on a national level, but hate crimes still happen.

Russia on the other hand has laws that entice hate against the LGBT community and hate crimes there occur regularly. There lies the difference.