Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov commented yesterday on his handling of the gay rights march that erupted in violence over the weekend, defending the neo-Nazi nationalists who hurled eggs, stones, and water at the gays and lesbians attempting to lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, calling the activists' actions a “desecration of a sacred place.”
Luzhov: “Our way of life, our morals and our tradition — our morals are cleaner in all ways. The West has something to learn from us and should not race along in this mad licentiousness. We may have a democratic country, but we live in an organized country and an organized city. These gays wanted to lay flowers at the grave of the unknown warrior. This is a provocation. These gays go there, and openly go up to the monument. It is a contamination. People burst through and of course they beat them up.”
