> There are no exact figures of how many people have left Russia since Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with estimates varying hugely, but, in May, the UK Ministry of Defence put the figure at 1.3 million for that year alone.
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> Nearly two years into the war, some Russian citizens are indeed returning.
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> …
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> During a televised discussion on Tuesday (16 January), Putin weighed in on why he thinks Russian citizens may be returning to Russia.
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> He believes Russians are struggling with the prominence of “shared toilets for boys and girls” in the West, according to a clip shared on X/Twitter by BBC Monitoring journalist Francis Scarr.
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> “This has become an every-day, ordinary phenomenon,” Putin said. “And for those who left Russia for various reasons, many of them are now returning or are thinking about returning.
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> “It’s very difficult to live in such conditions for people with traditional, normal, human values.”
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> **Putin’s words echo those of St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov**.
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> On Saturday (13 January), Beglov claimed that Russian soldiers had seen “gender-neutral bathrooms” in Ukrainian schools, Meduza reported. This helped them “understand very well what [Russia] is fighting for”, he added.
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> And during speech at the Primakov Readings international forum in 2022, **Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov complained about how he didn’t know what toilets he was supposed to use during a trip to Sweden**, because there were, he said, “80” genders in Europe and the UK.
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> “If it is what I observed in Sweden last year, [at] a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, when, during the break, I asked where the bathroom was, they told me the door with the letters W.C.
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> “I asked: ‘Is this for ladies or gentlemen?’ [and] was told, ‘We share everything’,” the former foreign minister said. “I couldn’t believe it, but it was really like that. You can’t imagine how unhuman it was, just not human.”
Putin is an oathbreaker, a poisoner and a genocidaire. I have a bottle of bubbly that will be opened when the biology (or GUR) does its’ inevitable work.
(A). (B).
Putin’s Poopaganda train, keeps, a-rollin’, a-rollin’, and rollin’. 🎶
This phenomenon is out of control. It’s so widespread that I’ve yet to see one single instance of separated toilets for boys and girls in any house in Europe that I’ve visited. Everyone’s sharing like crazy. Why, in my own house there’s only one toilet. I think I should be ashamed.
He’s an insane dictator, what else is new…?
A joke of a country.
I have a gender neutral toilet right in my house! Man, check out the progressiveness on me! /s
Yeah, another terrible invention of the rotten West. Good thing that Russia doesn’t have this problem as they have no toilets at all.
That clown in ruzzia can’t get any worse… it’s a sad circus…
They return to Russia because of its gender-neutral latrines?
Ah, so that’s why they are stealing toilets.
EU requires gender neutral toilet in every European household!
Oh zip it midget.
Doesn’t Russia have gender neutral holes in the ground?
He seems to not be able to stop thinking about penises.
Theres… God knows how many Russians that have emigrated to my country (Serbia). Hundrends of thousands, perhaps.
While they’ve made rent go crazy, they’re also contrIbuting to our GDP, since most, if not all of them, are remote and/or IT.
I’ve yet to meet a single one that’s not hardcore anti-Putin, and most are chill af.
So, know what? Keep sending us your best – they’re already learning our languange, contributing to our economy, and slowly but surely integrating.
And we put so much money into defense when we could’ve put toilets around the borders.
I wish all those Russians here would return.
So many of them live in Germany for decades, still speak a horrible broken german at best, which apparently is only being topped by how horrible Germany itself is compared to glorious mother Russia.
And yet those fuckers stay where they are, proudly facing gender-neutral toilets.
Ha. If anyone returns over that the international community is better off without them.
A lot of distended bladders then.
Bunch of Karens, those Russians.
Putin has been using sycophants to wipe his ass with for so long that he’s forgotten that toilets don’t have a gender.
hah, it’s living with gender neutral toilets or a chance to get pressganged into a war you don’t want to fight, good luck to the returnees I suppose.
Goddamn, he made good point. All toilets will be gender neutral coming forward.
Imagine if this is true (lol) how big a snowflake their are…
So first he cries about ukraine is fighting back as a reason why he has not won the war.
Now toilets.
Russians are returning home because they realized that they won’t be able to live anywhere else, and not because of the toilets. It’s bad that they will work against Putin’s economy. It’s a shame it happened that way, but at least they tried.
Well I’m actually on board with that.
If Russian snowflakes can’t handle gender-neutral toilets abroad, by all means, please return to Russia.
What are they doing on planes though? Do planes in Russia have gender-segregated toilets? Never heard of that.
Jesus Christ when will people in the comments stop falling for bullshit
“Yes actually I wish Russians would return if they love their traditional values so much”, while the people who’ve left in the last two years are precisely (or, well, statistically more likely to be) the people who are against this nonsense rhetoric. And of the people who do return, many do it because they can’t stick around, be it running out of money or some other stuff. But not because they love the government.
That moment when you out of excuses but still trying to play adequate tyrant 😁
When people afraid of gender neutral toilets go to restaurants and cafes with only one toilet do they just refuse to use it and piss their pants?
So like every house toilet.
Why is the Russian government so obsessed with these toilets? If I were to resist an “oppressive ideology which forces you to be gay” I think that my butt cheeks touching a ceramic seat which was touched by another genders cheeks would be the least concern.
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> There are no exact figures of how many people have left Russia since Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, with estimates varying hugely, but, in May, the UK Ministry of Defence put the figure at 1.3 million for that year alone.
>
> Nearly two years into the war, some Russian citizens are indeed returning.
>
> …
>
> During a televised discussion on Tuesday (16 January), Putin weighed in on why he thinks Russian citizens may be returning to Russia.
>
> He believes Russians are struggling with the prominence of “shared toilets for boys and girls” in the West, according to a clip shared on X/Twitter by BBC Monitoring journalist Francis Scarr.
>
> “This has become an every-day, ordinary phenomenon,” Putin said. “And for those who left Russia for various reasons, many of them are now returning or are thinking about returning.
>
> “It’s very difficult to live in such conditions for people with traditional, normal, human values.”
>
> **Putin’s words echo those of St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov**.
>
> On Saturday (13 January), Beglov claimed that Russian soldiers had seen “gender-neutral bathrooms” in Ukrainian schools, Meduza reported. This helped them “understand very well what [Russia] is fighting for”, he added.
>
> And during speech at the Primakov Readings international forum in 2022, **Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov complained about how he didn’t know what toilets he was supposed to use during a trip to Sweden**, because there were, he said, “80” genders in Europe and the UK.
>
> “If it is what I observed in Sweden last year, [at] a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council, when, during the break, I asked where the bathroom was, they told me the door with the letters W.C.
>
> “I asked: ‘Is this for ladies or gentlemen?’ [and] was told, ‘We share everything’,” the former foreign minister said. “I couldn’t believe it, but it was really like that. You can’t imagine how unhuman it was, just not human.”
Putin is an oathbreaker, a poisoner and a genocidaire. I have a bottle of bubbly that will be opened when the biology (or GUR) does its’ inevitable work.
(A). (B).
Putin’s Poopaganda train, keeps, a-rollin’, a-rollin’, and rollin’. 🎶
At least there are toilets abroad. Fourteen percent of russian population [still take shit into the pit latrines](https://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/russian-federation/).
This phenomenon is out of control. It’s so widespread that I’ve yet to see one single instance of separated toilets for boys and girls in any house in Europe that I’ve visited. Everyone’s sharing like crazy. Why, in my own house there’s only one toilet. I think I should be ashamed.
He’s an insane dictator, what else is new…?
A joke of a country.
I have a gender neutral toilet right in my house! Man, check out the progressiveness on me! /s
Yeah, another terrible invention of the rotten West. Good thing that Russia doesn’t have this problem as they have no toilets at all.
That clown in ruzzia can’t get any worse… it’s a sad circus…
They return to Russia because of its gender-neutral latrines?
Ah, so that’s why they are stealing toilets.
EU requires gender neutral toilet in every European household!
Oh zip it midget.
Doesn’t Russia have gender neutral holes in the ground?
He seems to not be able to stop thinking about penises.
Theres… God knows how many Russians that have emigrated to my country (Serbia). Hundrends of thousands, perhaps.
While they’ve made rent go crazy, they’re also contrIbuting to our GDP, since most, if not all of them, are remote and/or IT.
I’ve yet to meet a single one that’s not hardcore anti-Putin, and most are chill af.
So, know what? Keep sending us your best – they’re already learning our languange, contributing to our economy, and slowly but surely integrating.
And we put so much money into defense when we could’ve put toilets around the borders.
I wish all those Russians here would return.
So many of them live in Germany for decades, still speak a horrible broken german at best, which apparently is only being topped by how horrible Germany itself is compared to glorious mother Russia.
And yet those fuckers stay where they are, proudly facing gender-neutral toilets.
Ha. If anyone returns over that the international community is better off without them.
A lot of distended bladders then.
Bunch of Karens, those Russians.
Putin has been using sycophants to wipe his ass with for so long that he’s forgotten that toilets don’t have a gender.
hah, it’s living with gender neutral toilets or a chance to get pressganged into a war you don’t want to fight, good luck to the returnees I suppose.
Goddamn, he made good point. All toilets will be gender neutral coming forward.
Imagine if this is true (lol) how big a snowflake their are…
So first he cries about ukraine is fighting back as a reason why he has not won the war.
Now toilets.
Russians are returning home because they realized that they won’t be able to live anywhere else, and not because of the toilets. It’s bad that they will work against Putin’s economy. It’s a shame it happened that way, but at least they tried.
Well I’m actually on board with that.
If Russian snowflakes can’t handle gender-neutral toilets abroad, by all means, please return to Russia.
What are they doing on planes though? Do planes in Russia have gender-segregated toilets? Never heard of that.
Jesus Christ when will people in the comments stop falling for bullshit
“Yes actually I wish Russians would return if they love their traditional values so much”, while the people who’ve left in the last two years are precisely (or, well, statistically more likely to be) the people who are against this nonsense rhetoric. And of the people who do return, many do it because they can’t stick around, be it running out of money or some other stuff. But not because they love the government.
That moment when you out of excuses but still trying to play adequate tyrant 😁
When people afraid of gender neutral toilets go to restaurants and cafes with only one toilet do they just refuse to use it and piss their pants?
So like every house toilet.
Why is the Russian government so obsessed with these toilets? If I were to resist an “oppressive ideology which forces you to be gay” I think that my butt cheeks touching a ceramic seat which was touched by another genders cheeks would be the least concern.