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Putin’s adviser says U.S. is using brainwashing to make gay Ukrainian super-soldiers (www.lgbtqnation.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Wilshire to c/nottheonion

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[–] Sterile_Technique 4 points 1 year ago

Other posters have already mentioned it, but the idea of using homosexuality as means to produce super-soldiers is tried-and-true, and goes way, way back:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes

So, even taking Putin's ridiculous claim at face value, it still just boils down to Russia's soldiers being inadequate compared to Ukraine's.