I have translated this post for my English-speaking readers.
I have put some of the bits of it in bold just to stress them - they are not in bold in the original.
One can easily see how much twisting with the words and meanings is involved here, how hypocritical these statements are, how eloquent the blogger is to support her ideas.
Dear Mr. President! Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Dear Mr. Rogge, Mr. Alexander Zhukov and all the
other Members of the International Olympic Committee!
I am not Stephen Fry, I'm just a modest
scriptwriter, a novel writer and a fitness loving girl, so I guess my letter
might never reach you. But I'm writing in hope to be heard, while probably not
by you, but at least by all the
sensible people, who consider the traditional sexual orientation and love for
sports to be their solid and unquestionable values.
I hate all forms and kinds of fascism, I hate wars,
including the Second World War, which
the Nazi Germany started against the whole world thanks to criminal condonation
and even instigation of Great Britain. My best friend is Jewish and her
family's tragic story as well as millions of other families' stories has made
me believe that you can't grade people dividing them into classes and treating
them as either the first or the second class and that you can't just use people
as 'cannon fodder' in wars for your own criminal interests.
Unfortunately
some British citizens longing for the past imperial ambitions (sic!) are itching for
those gone ambitions now. They seem to believe that in our country homosexual people should be
graded higher and treated better than heterosexual people. They can't
understand why gay people in Russia are not favoured over straight people and
why the latter's rights and freedom are not being limited or violated.
It's fascism, in my humble opinion. Great Britain has already made a costly
mistake in the past by acknowledging and accepting Nazi Germany on the
international level and by arranging the Olympics in Berlin in 1936. At first
they allowed Hitler to get armed turning their blind eye to Jewish massacres
and concentration camps for Jews and then they stopped isolation of the
criminal Nazi regime by sending British sportsmen to the Olympics in Berlin.
Now we are all under similar threat. Unhappy with their rights which are equal
to the rights of heterosexual people gays are campaigning their government and
the IOC for staging the Olympiad not in Russia but somewhere else, in a country
where their 'sort' of people are favoured over straight people.
'All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good
men to do nothing', so wrote Edmund Burke. Are you going to be those who allow
evil to triumph?
Dear Mr. President! Dear Members of the IOC!
I'm begging you to ban countries that create
hostility, evil and mutual hatred from taking part in the Olympics. I'm begging
you to ban countries that grade people favouring and praising one 'sort' and
humiliating the others. We all remember too well what this kind of 'grading'
could lead to. We can't just keep quiet, we have to and must stress the equal
rights of all the people regardless of their skin colour, ethnicity and sexual
orientation. Who else if not us? When if not now?
In pursuit for peace and equal rights, with passion
for sports,
Lena Miro.
I would also like to make something very clear - although I support Stephen Fry's ideas I have to say that in my opinion it's not just homosexual people who are under threat in modern Russian. It more or less concerns every minority or simply everybody who is different - in one way or another.
