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    3 years ago

    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).