They say it's not meant to persecute people with different sexual orientations, rather just target "the movement"

This shit has me so baffled. "We don't hate queer people we're just gonna ban their most visible movement and make it illegal to teach sex education that isn't heteronormative"

The sad part is that i’m not sure that the outcome would be any different even if the ruling party was a communist one, at least if it chose to tail the masses on this issue.

At the very least there wouldn’t have been the reactionary backslide due to the return of the power of the church (especially the reactionary sections that were previously exiled).

How do they even legally define what "the LGBT movement" is? Do they think that people are card-carrying members of some official LGBT organization?

Yeah it has big “the CEO of antifa” energy

Cheap political points at the expense of vulnerable minorities, perhaps to create a possibility of accusing them of the ills of capitalism later, once the contradictions start biting down the road.

Everyone catches strays, like when the LGBT death squad plants their rainbow flag on gaza or the US posts about their LGBT attack helicopter crew. The system alienates and fragments everyone by tricking one group it hates it slightly less than another. If you aren't principled, it's easy to buy into it.

for some people it might be that, for others it might just be reactionary conservative beliefs about gender.

This reminds me of a tweet a comrade made about this issue:

No shit. It seems like not everyone heard about Yeltsin’s self coup in 1993.

They haven’t been “misinterpreting” anything. It’s a political weapon with which they can divert attention to a made up enemy to distract from their failings.

This the bread and butter tactic of capitalists and fascists. Blame immigrants, or the gays, or the Jews. Anyone but themselves.

I think I speak for most everyone when I say that this isn’t based, but marginally better than the Nazis that Ukraine brings into their ranks and radicalize other troops to accept Fascist-friendly brigades. Everyone here should criticize Russia in their many faults at the same time. That’s the beauty of the Dialectical Method, we can point out shortcomings and successes and address them as they are, not how we would like them to be.

Come on, you over there in Dongistan, tell me how Putin is "Based" And will help communism return to Russia?

No one says that, merely that they should be supported as an opponent of the imperial core

The Russian government can have reactionary positions when it comes to LGBT issues, and yet still be the main force in the world today killing nazis who would like nothing more than to wipe LGBT people off the face of the earth.

Should we stop critically supporting Gaza because they have anti-LGBT views also?

AFAIK the Dongistanis are banned here

It's possible to both recognize how a state (Russia, Iran) can occupy an anti-imperialist position due to their circumstances and also recognize that they have seriously bigoted domestic politics.