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