Don't have enough energy to edit out the Reddit bits/adapt them for Lemmy
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2022
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This image itself is homophobic lmao
Nice fake story bro.
That's a well-known meme from the pro-LGBT protests in 2013/2014. Not saying the guy who was arrested is the creator, or that he's a popular hero, but here's what the Moscow Times had to say in 2017:
In the end, the court released Tsvetkov from any criminal liability under Article 282 (Russia’s controversial ban on hate speech, which carries a five-year maximum prison sentence), and instead ordered him to receive compulsory psychiatric care.
Maybe not 100% correct (or at least i don't have a reliable source for that) but really far from a "fake story" since that work is indeed banned and one person sharing it ended up in psychiatric hospital (which is just another form of prison).
So as long as it fits the purpose it doesn't matter if it's true or false?
Not exactly, no. It does matter if it's true or false. But it's normal to loose details any time the story gets passed around, as long as the heart of the story remains true: LGBT propaganda is banned in Russia, Putin hates gay people and it enrages him that people would make a queer caricature of him, and people who don't respect that end up having problem with the repressive state apparatus.