Ahocking theatre performance by Russian troops

Russian troops pretend to crush a gay man with concrete block in shocking theatre performance.

Russian paratroopers horrified an audience with a homophobic theatre performance depicting a gay man being crushed under a concrete block.

The performance was shown as part of an anniversary celebration for a local patriotic military club at the Dobrynin Palace of Culture in Yaroslavl on Sunday (29 August).

As an unsuspecting audience looked on, cadets in camouflage fatigues hoisted a shirtless man above their heads and placed a concrete block with the inscription “death to f****ts” on his stomach.

The men then proceeded to smash the symbolic object with what appeared to be a sledgehammer, Radio Free Europe reports.

“We view these attacks as a call to murder,” said Taras Sidorin, head of the Yaroslavl branch of the veterans group Defender.

The performance was so shocking that Sidorin filed a police report on behalf of a number of Russian veterans’ organisations.

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