*Easy to make fun of 'em till you realize what a South Carolina state flag does to people.
*I wonder how many Russian modern-day fundamentalists were Russian mafiosi back in the days of Yeltsin. I'm thinking rather a lot. Not that they're cynical or anything; I'm pretty sure that all moral awakenings are like the current Rasputin-like Russian religious fervor. Why do they believe that? Because it's available and they don't see anything else going on.
*Also, a "color revolution" is basically what's happening in Greece now, only the stricken Greeks didn't bother to pick a color. You think the great powers like that when it happens inside NATO instead of on its periphery? Heck no they don't.
http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-same-sex-marriage-gay-rights-united-states/27100756.html
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"Vitaly Milonov called for a total ban of Facebook in Russia after many users showed their support for gay marriage by using the site's "Celebrate Pride" tool, which allows them to overlay their profile pictures with the LGBT flag.
"In the wake of the U.S. ruling, the thought of Russian children possibly viewing a photograph tinged with the colors of the rainbow spurred Milonov to speak out.
" "This is a gross violation of Russian legislation," he told the Russia News Service radio station. "Facebook does not have age restrictions. It's not possible to control how many underage users there are. Therefore, it is entirely normal to cut off Facebook on Russian territory."
"It was not the only call to block Facebook.
"On June 25, in anticipation of the Supreme Court ruling, a senator in the Russian Federation Council called on state media watchdog Roskomnadzor to block the social network for circulating "gay propaganda" in the form of emoticons and emojis.
"Senator Mikhail Markhenko told Izvestia that on offer were tiny images – popularly used by social media users to comment on posts – showing men with men, women with women, and the rainbow flag. Such subliminal "propaganda" risked subliminally warping the minds of younger generations, he argued, and were thus incompatible with Russian law.
"Aleksei Lisovenko, a municipal lawmaker in Moscow, on June 29 called for the rainbow flag to be added to a list of "banned symbols" and outlawed altogether.
" "Since last century, the USA has been destroying entire states through color revolutions under the guise of 'democratization'," Lisovenko wrote on Facebook. "Now they've added to their arsenal 'gayification' – a new method of interfering in the affairs of sovereign states."
"Flag Vs. Flag
"The Facebook Celebrate Pride feature prompted Rishat Shigapov, director of an Internet marketing company, to try to fight flags with flags. Shigapov's answer was to develop a photo-editing application that can overlay photographs with the white, blue, and red of the Russian tricolor.
" "I am a Russian citizen and proud of it," Shigapov announced on his Facebook profile page, complete with a Russian-flag avatar.
"The application, pushed on social media under the hashtags #pridetobestraight and #pridetoberussian, has received generous media attention in Russia…"
