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The thing is, he's not a stupid man. He knows exactly what he's doing. He's uniting his people by encouraging them to hate something in common. Nothing unites people more than hating something in common; homosexuality is being portrayed as a hedonistic Western concept and any Russian discovered to be homosexual is therefore a traitor to religious and social values in Russia... he's a very smart man, Putin, which is much scarier than him just being stupid and uneducated. It's the opposite.