New Documentary on Russia: Where ‘Gay People Are Hunted Like Animals’
As the Sochi games get ready to begin, people are just now beginning to see the corruption and hypocrisy that is Russia today. In the days to come, expect Russia to keep trying to keep the focus on the games, but they can’t hide the truly awful things going on in their country:
Investigative reporter Liz Mackean tells the cameras: “We’ve filmed what they don’t want you to see. The real Russia - a place where gay people are hunted like animals.”
There are more than 37 groups all over Russia of a gang called Occupy Paedophilia, who link gay men to paedophilia and set up meetings with them on social media by pretending to offer friendship before beating them up.
In one horrific scene the St Petersburg branch of the gang trap a gay man and then pin him down in a flat before beating him up and then videotaping him admitting he is gay on camera.
Asked if he will lose his job when the video goes online, the crying teenager says: “Yes, I think I will.”
Another gay man named only as Dima, tells how he was left blind in one eye after being shot at for attending a party with other gay men. He said: “A hunting season is open and we are the hunted.”