“Lapal for all places”: Zhirinovsky accused of love for gays
The other day a loud scandal erupted about sexual harassment by State Duma deputies Leonid Slutsky and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Several young journalists representing the parliamentary pool and the television producer told the opposition Dozhd television station that the millionaire deputy Leonid Slutsky was extremely extravagant in talking to them in private. One journalist reported that last year, Slutsky, left alone with her, “put his inner palm against her pubis and ran his hand up.” In preparation for the broadcast, the deputy TV girl tried to grab the fifth point with her hands and persistently climbed to kiss.
According to the representatives of Dozhd, the entire State Duma and the young girl journalists are avoiding being alone with Slutsky’s cheeky manners, trying to invite male colleagues to be present when talking with Slutsky. The vice-speaker of the Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said that he was unaware of anything reprehensible in the behavior of his colleague and promised to conduct an explanatory conversation with him.
However, the situation is especially piquant because Vladimir Volfovich himself became the target of homosexual harassment charges. The journalist Renat Davletgildeev, an openly gay man, recalls how in 2006 he “almost got on the hook” by Vladimir Zhirinovsky:
The “Sucker” takes from the depths of memory the sensational details of this meeting with the people's deputy:
After that, Zhirinovsky's assistants, according to Davletgildeev, tried to take him to the sauna to continue private communication with a servant of the people, but he managed to escape from them to the people in the hall. Gay argues that the whole story is “nonsense, compared to what happens in the Liberal Democratic Party.”
The “opposing” side denies all of these gay journalist insinuations. Moreover, Igor Lebedev, the son of Vladimir Volfovich, also actively stood behind the back of fellow deputy Leonid Slutsky for his protection. He threatens to turn to law enforcement agencies for journalists. The son of Zhirinovsky believes that all these stories with sexual harassment are a stuffing against the state system itself.
Perhaps Lebedev is somewhat right. The problem of the cheeky attitude of statesmen to people dependent on them, if it really had a place to be, may be connected precisely with the peculiarities of the existing system. Russia is a country of deeply patriarchal way of life, the people instinctively need a good and fair king, whose role he regularly re-elects as Vladimir Putin. But the problem is that under any king, no matter how kind he may be, there are always boyars and nobles, as well as their war slaves. Built into the vertical, these people exist for decades in the conditions of the virtual irremovability of central authority, which gives them a sense of their own exclusiveness and impunity.
Therefore, some representatives of this self-proclaimed “aristocracy” may well show more about people dependent on them than is permitted, realizing that this will get away with them. It should not be surprising that Slutsky’s colleagues did not see anything reprehensible in his actions, there “they don’t leave their own.” Assuming that what was told by the media about the people elected is true, it is not for nothing that the journalist and gay journalist kept silent about harassment for years, for fear of losing their prestigious job. If this whole story is not the self-propaganda of unscrupulous journalists, then the problem of the attitude of the authorities to society is much more serious and deeper, and the "blue moon" is not to blame.
According to the representatives of Dozhd, the entire State Duma and the young girl journalists are avoiding being alone with Slutsky’s cheeky manners, trying to invite male colleagues to be present when talking with Slutsky. The vice-speaker of the Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, said that he was unaware of anything reprehensible in the behavior of his colleague and promised to conduct an explanatory conversation with him.
However, the situation is especially piquant because Vladimir Volfovich himself became the target of homosexual harassment charges. The journalist Renat Davletgildeev, an openly gay man, recalls how in 2006 he “almost got on the hook” by Vladimir Zhirinovsky:
I, a young boy, a journalist, a sucker, take a comment from Zhirinovsky, just catching him in the lobby, he touches me with his hands, quite obsessively
The “Sucker” takes from the depths of memory the sensational details of this meeting with the people's deputy:
He himself, while giving a short interview, was pawing for an ass so that his hands were shaking with a voice recorder
After that, Zhirinovsky's assistants, according to Davletgildeev, tried to take him to the sauna to continue private communication with a servant of the people, but he managed to escape from them to the people in the hall. Gay argues that the whole story is “nonsense, compared to what happens in the Liberal Democratic Party.”
The “opposing” side denies all of these gay journalist insinuations. Moreover, Igor Lebedev, the son of Vladimir Volfovich, also actively stood behind the back of fellow deputy Leonid Slutsky for his protection. He threatens to turn to law enforcement agencies for journalists. The son of Zhirinovsky believes that all these stories with sexual harassment are a stuffing against the state system itself.
Perhaps Lebedev is somewhat right. The problem of the cheeky attitude of statesmen to people dependent on them, if it really had a place to be, may be connected precisely with the peculiarities of the existing system. Russia is a country of deeply patriarchal way of life, the people instinctively need a good and fair king, whose role he regularly re-elects as Vladimir Putin. But the problem is that under any king, no matter how kind he may be, there are always boyars and nobles, as well as their war slaves. Built into the vertical, these people exist for decades in the conditions of the virtual irremovability of central authority, which gives them a sense of their own exclusiveness and impunity.
Therefore, some representatives of this self-proclaimed “aristocracy” may well show more about people dependent on them than is permitted, realizing that this will get away with them. It should not be surprising that Slutsky’s colleagues did not see anything reprehensible in his actions, there “they don’t leave their own.” Assuming that what was told by the media about the people elected is true, it is not for nothing that the journalist and gay journalist kept silent about harassment for years, for fear of losing their prestigious job. If this whole story is not the self-propaganda of unscrupulous journalists, then the problem of the attitude of the authorities to society is much more serious and deeper, and the "blue moon" is not to blame.
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