'Traditional values' in the law include patriotism, service to the fatherland, high morals, a strong family, productive labor, and the priority of the spiritual over the material.
A movie about the Nuremberg trials made the forbidden list even before the law was enacted
Too be fair, Russia IS full of weak willed idiots. Much like the Chinese, Russian feel they must protect their abuser, like their abuser “protect” them from the world. They fully believe in the national exceptionalism they’ve been fed since childhood. That they must endure the abuse, because they are uniquely strong and unified, that there are no one else in the world like them, and that they are under attack and risk extinction.
Too be fair, Russia IS full of weak willed idiots. Much like the Chinese, Russian feel they must protect their abuser, like their abuser “protect” them from the world. They fully believe in the national exceptionalism they’ve been fed since childhood. That they must endure the abuse, because they are uniquely strong and unified, that there are no one else in the world like them, and that they are under attack and risk extinction.
It’s sad and pathetic.