A video ad released this week urges Russians to get out and vote in the upcoming presidential election or face the consequences of a dystopian future where traditional family values have been outlawed.
The video is 6 minutes long, published On YouTube on Wednesday, he uses a number of homophobic tropes to depict a hypothetical Russia of 2036, a Russia ruled by a “Rainbow Court” and a “Tolerance Patrol,” which forces dissidents to undergo re-education courses on “gender harmony.” .
In the ad, a young family living on a street called “69 Gay Liberators” is forced to live a double life, teaching their son Barack to call them “Parents No. 1 and No. 2” instead of “Mom and No. 2.” Father” when in public.
The husband works in the “Ministry of Justice and Punishment,” and is forced to wear different clothes to execute his father, who is accused of “sexual fundamentalism,” with a sex toy.
“I told you in March 2024: Be a man, go vote!” The father tells his son after the latter experiences a revelation and is released from the mysterious shackles.
There have been similar advertising campaigns to incite fear Launched Before the 2018 regional presidential elections elections Later that year the Constitutional the changes In 2020, this paved the way for President Vladimir Putin to seek a fifth term in elections scheduled for March 15-17.
The latest advertisement was published on a YouTube channel under the name of the presidential candidate of the Russian Communist Party, Nikolai Kharitonov, but the party to reject Any link to the video or channel.
The identity of the author of the advertisement could not be immediately confirmed.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) service in Russian mentioned That father was played by the same actor who Back In a 2022 ad released by the Kremlin-funded RT channel, he predicted “Europe would freeze” without Russian gas imports.
The same actor, Valentin Vorobyov, appeared in another ad depicting a dystopian future in which Germans are forced to give up their last possessions to Ukraine and greet each other with “Heil.” [Volodymyr] Zelensky,” referring to the Ukrainian president.
According to RFE/RL, the YouTube channel that posted the latest homophobic ad has links to a website bearing the logo of the production studio “DUB Media,” which is said to contain produced Video of the Moscow Mayor's Office.
DUB Media denied its connection to the ad, the news outlet said.
