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Vladimir Putin sits there and plays with his pen.

The Russian president, who sent his tanks and planes to Ukraine almost two years ago to destroy the neighboring country under the empty phrases ‘denazification’ and ‘demilitarization’ and to deprive millions of people of their homes, lives and security, is in prison this publicly deviated from the heads of Russian local authorities and once again cannot believe how life works in “some European countries”.

That’s why so many Russians who had left the country are now returning, he claims. According to Putin, with shared toilets for all genders, they really wouldn’t be able to live a reasonable life.

Russia, the Kremlin ruler, leaves no doubt at every opportunity that Russia is a “traditionally normal” country. A country in which, according to the state statistics office, a third of the rural population ‘traditionally’ has a wooden outbuilding in the garden and defecates in this hole in the ground with a building above it.

A country containing ten regions every fifth school has no sewerage is. A country where, if there are heated toilets in the apartments, there are rarely two per apartment.

What are the Ukrainians who – Russian politicians and propagandists are convinced – are installing gender-neutral toilets in their schools? The Russian “boys” with “weapons in their hands”, Governor Alexander Beglow of St. Petersburg said a few days ago, somewhat before Putin, knew what they were fighting for.

In his Telegram channel he wrote:

It’s better to build your own toilets than destroy someone else’s

Is the Russian state, with its war in Ukraine, not defending its ‘sovereignty threatened by enemies in the West’, as the Kremlin always claims, but rather its toilets ‘for normal girls’ and ‘normal boys’? “Just sort it out” then? Is the toilet ours?

What the Russian soldiers are fighting for in Ukraine is still unclear to many in Russia. “Maybe there are no fascists there,” say some women who, despite all the repressive laws, take to the streets to bring their mobilized husbands home from the front. These are people who suddenly start to doubt the state’s perfectly crafted propaganda fairytales, which the state presents to its people every day.

In the wake of Beglow and Putin’s bizarre talk about “gender-neutral toilets”, some people on social networks are posting countless photos of crooked pit toilets, of pits at the edges of fields, of school toilets in which – as is often the case in Russian school toilets – the doors have been specially removed. One writes:

Another complains about Lack of toilet paper, soap and even flushing in the school toilet their children. In some Russian schools, students are only allowed to go to the toilet, independent online portals report, with a ‘ticket’ that the teacher hands out depending on the child’s behavior.

“Okay, now we know. But wouldn’t it be better to send ‘our boys’ to build functioning toilets here, instead of using them to destroy toilets in Ukraine?” Boris writes. And Igor: “Buy a toilet quickly, it doesn’t matter which one. I have to puke.”